pip

n. [ Perh. for pick, F. pique a spade at cards, a pike. Cf. Pique. ] One of the conventional figures or “spots” on playing cards, dominoes, etc. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. pippe, D. pip, or F. pépie; from LL. pipita, fr. L. pituita slime, phlegm, rheum, in fowls, the pip. Cf. Pituite. ] A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming a “scale” on the tongue. By some the term pip is restricted to this last symptom, the disease being called roup by them. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Formerly pippin, pepin. Cf. Pippin. ] (Bot.) A seed, as of an apple or orange. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Pipas (Zool.) The Surinam toad (Pipa Americana), noted for its peculiar breeding habits. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The male places the eggs on the back of the female, where they soon become inclosed in capsules formed by the thickening of the skin. The incubation of the eggs takes place in the capsules, and the young, when hatched, come forth with well developed legs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Transportation, as of petroleum oil, by means of a pipe conduit; also, the charge for such transportation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Same as Peepul tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. pīpe, probably fr. L. pipare, pipire, to chirp; of imitative origin. Cf. Peep, Pibroch, Fife. ] 1. A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ. “Tunable as sylvan pipe.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A small bowl with a hollow stem, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The key or sound of the voice. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. pl. The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Mining) An elongated body or vein of ore. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king; -- so called because put together like a pipe. Mozley & W. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. (Naut.) A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it. [ 1913 Webster ]

11. [ Cf. F. pipe, fr. pipe a wind instrument, a tube, fr. L. pipare to chirp. See Etymol. above. ] A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pipe fitter, one who fits pipes together, or applies pipes, as to an engine or a building. --
Pipe fitting, a piece, as a coupling, an elbow, a valve, etc., used for connecting lengths of pipe or as accessory to a pipe. --
Pipe office, an ancient office in the Court of Exchequer, in which the clerk of the pipe made out leases of crown lands, accounts of cheriffs, etc. [ Eng. ] --
Pipe tree (Bot.), the lilac and the mock orange; -- so called because their were formerly used to make pipe stems; -- called also pipe privet. --
Pipe wrench, or
Pipe tongs, a jawed tool for gripping a pipe, in turning or holding it. --
To smoke the pipe of peace, to smoke from the same pipe in token of amity or preparatory to making a treaty of peace, -- a custom of the American Indians. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Piped p. pr. & vb. n. Piping. ] 1. To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe. [ 1913 Webster ]

A robin . . . was piping a few querulous notes. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle. [ 1913 Webster ]

As fine a ship's company as was ever piped aloft. Marryat. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building. [ 1913 Webster ]