pipe (1), pype

[A. S. pipe; cf. Gael. piob =a pipe, a flute, a tube; Ir. pib, piob; Wel. pib =a pipe, tube; pipi an = to pipe; pibo = to pipe, to squirt; Du. pijp; Icel. pipa; Sw. pipa; Da. pibe; Ger. pfeife; Ital., Port. & Sp. pipa.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. A long hollow body or tube, made of various materials, as earthenware, iron, lead, copper, gla , . The name is applied especially to tubes for the conveyance of water, gas, steam, and the like. ( Pope : Homer's Ody ey , vii. 172.) *2. A wind-instrument of music, consisting of a tube of wood or metal. As the technical name of a particular instrument the word formerly designated a flute, but is obsolete, all the tubular instru ments now having specific names. The tubes of an organ are called organ-pipes or pipes. 3. A tube with a bowl to hold tobacco, opium, or other narcotic or medicinal leaf, which is burned slowly to yield smoke. "The pipe , with solemn interposing puff, Makes half a sentence at a time enough." Cowper: Conversation. 4. A roll in the English Exchequer (otherwise called the Great Roll), so named from its resembling a pipe. Hence the pipe-office, an ancient office in the Court of Exchequer, in which the clerk of pipe used to make out leases of crown lands, accounts of sheriffs, . This office was abolished by 3 & 4 William IV. "These be at last brought into that office of her majes. ty's exchequer, which we, by a metaphor, do call the pipe , as the civilians do by a like translation, name it fisc us, a a casket or bag, because the whole receipt is finally convoyed into it by means of divers small pipes or quills, as it were water into a great head or cistern."- Bacon . The Office of Alienations, 5. The pa age for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe. "The exercise of singing openeth the breast and pipes ." -Peacham . *6. The sound of the voice; the voice. "Thy small pipe is as the maiden's organ." Shakesp.: Twelfth Night, i. 4. 7. The peeping, whistle, or chirping of a bird. ( Tennyson : Prince , iv. 32.) 8. ( Pl .): The bagpipes. *9. A charge of powder or shot, which was for merly measured in the bowl of a pipe. II. Technically : 1. Mining : A running vein, having a rock root and sole, and called a pipe vein. 2. Naut.: The boatswain's whistle, used to call or pipe the men to their various duties or stations, the sound of the whistle. "The skipper he stood beside the helm, His pipe was in his mouth." Long fellow: Wreck of the Hesperus. pipe-bearer, subst . An attendant who bore his master's pipe. "An attendant and pipe - bearer ." Long fellow: Hiawatha, xvi. pipe-box, s . [Box (3), s. II. 9. 1.] pipe-clamp, s. A vise or holder for a pipe. pipe-case, subst. A pocket-case for carrying a tobacco pipe. IMG:content-1121.png:[blocks in formation] Music : An organ having musical pipes, in contra distinction to one having vibrating tongues, and known as a reed-organ. pipe-prover, s . An apparatus for the purpose of proving the capacity of resistance in steam and water pipes by means of hydraulic pre ure. pipe-roll, s. (PIPE (1), 8. I. 4.]