Pipe

pip, n. A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube of wood or metal; any long tube or hollow body; a tube of clay, etc., with a bowl at one end, used in smoking tobacco, etc. in Eng., a roll in the exchequer, fr. resemblance to a pipe; the exchequer itself a cask usually containing 12G gallons, used for wine; or the quantity which contains. — v. [piped (pipt), piping.] To play on a pipe, fife, flute, etc.; to have a shrill sound; whistle.— v. To perform by playing on a wind instrument, to utter m a high or sharp tone. [Onomat.; AS. pipe, Dan. pibe, G. p/ei/e, Ir. and W. pib, a pipe, tube, W. pipi an, to pipe, pibo, to squirt, L. pipire, Gr. pipizein, to chirp, all pi-pi, the cry of a Soung bird; peep, pibroch, fi/e.] — Pip'er, n. ne who plays on a pipe or flute esp. one who plays on the bagpipe. — Pip'ing. p. a. Giving forth a weak, shrill sound like the voice of the sick; feeble; simmering; boiling. — n. A kind of cord trimming or fluting for ladies' dre es. {Bot.) A piece cut off to be planted; a cutting. — Pipe''- clay, n. A species of white clay, used in making, tobacco pipes and various kinds of earthen ware; official military routine, — used as red-tape of formalism in civil affairs, f the use of pipe-clay in cleansing soldiers' equipments. — Pip'kin, n. A small earthen boiler. [Dim. of pipe.} Pippin. See under Pip, a seed.