pipe 
labial. - Laminated pipe. See laminate. - Oaten pipe 
See oaten. Open pipe. See def. 2. -Pan's pipes, :i 
primitive musical instrument, consisting of a graduated 
series of tubes of cane, wood, metal, or stone, closed at the 
lower end, the tone being produced by blowing with the 
breath across the upper end. It has been used among 
barbarous and semi-civilized peoples in various parts of 
opening, through which the plastic clay Is forced by heavy 
pressure, to give it the form of a tube. The inside of the 
socket on the end of the pipe Is shaped by what Is called 
a lower die, and the outside of the socket is funned by 
lowerX*'* 1 betWCen thc PP - 
Piperacese 
(pip'mouth), H. A fish of the fam- 
ily Fittulariitlee : so called from the pipe-like 
or tubular snout. 
the ends of metal pipes. The thread* of the die have 
grooves cut across them parallel with the axis on which 
the die rotates. In cutting pipe-threads, these grooves 
alford clearance for escape of the metal cuttings, which 
would otherwise accumulate In the threads of the die and 
Pan's Pipes. 
left-handed thread Is a left-hand die. 
Also called outride die. 
pipe-office (pip'of is), . An office, abolished 
in 1834, in the English court of exchequer, in 
which the clerk of the pipe made out leases of 
crown hinds, accounts of sheriffs, etc. 
' arranged and simul- P i P e ' or ; a n (P'P'or'gan), w. The organ proper, 
taneously adjustable screw cutting-tools which *i^^m\riv^ ^*A*C5j5? ^O"" 1 - 
m some kinds of pipe die-stocks have their in- "GOES ^^iS^^fmSa to 
(pip'priv'et), it. A former name 
See screw-thread. l tne lilao - 
&&^fcsaRssssi I SWs^ d "- A v pp r u8 ^%$:&ZS&% 
was made in England to form companies of players upon * r rcln lnto * ground pipes for driven 
Pan's pipes of various sizes for Itinerant performances 
Also called Pandean pipes, and syrinx. Pipe gamboge 
gamboge In cylindrical sticks, as shaped by bamboo-joints 
in which the juice Is collected. -Stopped Pipe Sec def 
2. - To hit the pipe. Sec h& . 
pipe-t, i'. Aii obsolete form of peejfi. 
pipe 3 t, . An obsolete form of pipl. 
pipe-bender (pip'ben'der), n. 1. A machine 
for bending sheet-iron stove-pipe in the opera- 
tion of making elbows. 2. A flexible man- 
drel formed of a strong, closely wound steel 
helix, which is inserted in a soft metal pipe in 
order that it maybe bent without distortion. CiUle<1 x*-l""'ses, the pipe-fishes proper having the body as 
well as the jaws slender. One of the best-known pipe- 
fishes is Siphoshnna or Synynathus acut, common in Brit- 
plpe-fish (pip'fish), n. One of the several loph 
branchiate fishes which have a * 
snout like a 
pipe, as any 
member of 
thefyngnatlii- 
dee or Hippo- 
campidx. The 
menioers of the 
latter family are 
more commonly 
ii>ere, 
inner = OHQ 
^ -* 
Great Pipe-fish {Sifkostoma HCMJ). 
en and water-pipes by hydraulic pressure. 
piper 1 (pi'per), . [< ME. piper, pyper, p( 
. 10- < AS. pipere =D. m/i>er= MLG. piper = G.. 
long tubular phifari, J1HG. pliifserc, pftfer, G. pfeifer 
,^r^_ - Icel.pipari = Sw. mpare = Dan. piber; as pi/ 
+ -. Cf. fifer.] 1. One who or that which 
pipes ; one who plays on a pipe, in the following 
quotation from Chaucer the word is used to personify the 
box-tree, as furnishing the material from which pipes or 
musical instruments were made. 
. 178. 
. H. Knight. 
pipe-box (pip'boks), . In a vehicle, the box 
of a hub or nave which receives the arm or 
spindle of the axle. E. H. Knight. 
pipe-case (pip'kas), w. (a) A case or box lined 
with soft material to protect a valuable pipe 
when not in use. (6) A similar cover for the 
bowl of a pipe to protect it from the fingers 
when in use. as when a meerschaum is being 
The box tre pipere, holm to whippis lasch. 
Chaucer, Parliament of Fowls. 1 
The piper loud and louder blew ; 
The dancers quick and quicker flew. 
Burns, Tarn o' Shanter. 
"Please your honours," said he, " I'm able. 
Massachusetts Pipe-fish (Siftwtoma/ksta'). 
ish waters. The best-known American species Is Siphos- 
toina/usca or Syiujnathus peckianus. 
, 
By means of a secret charm, to draw 
All creatures living beneath the sun . . . 
After me so as you never saw, . . . 
And people call me the Pled Piper." 
Browning, Pled Piper, vl. 
Specifically 2. In ornitli.: (a) A sandpiper 
or sand peep; a bird of the genus Trim/a or 
some related genus, as Ereiinetex. See cuts 
for maklng'pipes, and also used for whitening * he s . urfal ' e - 
leatherwork, especially by soldiers. Pipe-J 
pipe-clay (pip'kla), . t. 1. To whiten witl- Kntg ' 
pipe-clay. 
.. _ 'joint ),n. A pipe-coupling. E. B. 
night. 
pipe-key (pip'ke), w. Same as piped key (which 
JStSSSZ^"^*****' '** pi^-layer r /pip'1a''er), W . 1. A workman who 
lays gas-, water-, or drainage-pipes. 2. A po- 
litical intriguer (see the quotation); hence, any 
Coupling. 
fnlndi it<l 
Arch. Forbes, Souvenirs of some Continents, p. 35. 
Hence 2. To blot out or wipe off; square or 
settle : said of accounts. [Slang.] 
You . . . would not understand allusions to their [the 
midshipmen's] pipe-claying their weekly accounts. 
Dickens, Bleak House, xvii. 
pipe-coupling (pip'kup'liug), n. A joint or 
piece for unit- 
ing two pipes c \ b 
so as to form 
a continuous 
channel, or for 
forming a junc- 
tion between a 
pipe and an- ^.^^ 
a and *, pipes to be coupled and male- 
HP6- threaded ; c, coupling, female-threaded at 
See each end. If one end of the coupling has a 
left-handed female thread.it is caned a right- 
and-left coupling. If one of the pipes is 
smaller than the other and the coupling is 
>\ w reduced at one end to fit the smaller pipe, it 
4- - . , '1 is called a reducing-coupling. 
1. A tool for 
cutting iron pipes. A hook passes under the pipe and 
serves as a rest, while a cutting-chisel or -disk is forced 
down upon the pipe, about which the implement is ro- 
tated until a complete section is effected. 
2. A machine for truing the ends of pipes or 
cutting them into lengths. 
piped (pipt), . [< pipe* + -erf2.] Tubular or 
fi.stulotis; formed with or into a tube or pipe. 
Piped key, a key with a hollow barrel which fits upon 
a pintle contained in the lock. Also pipe-key. 
pipe-dance (pip'dans), n. A dance resembling 
thu sword-dance, in which a number of clay 
tobacco-pipes are used instead of swords. 
Sometimes they do the pipe-dance. For this a number 
of tobacco-pipes, about a dozen, are laid close together on 
the floor, and the dancer places the toe of his boot between 
the different pipes, keeping time with the music. 
Mai/hew, London Labour and London Poor, I. 14. 
schemer. [U. S.] 
Among the Glentworth papers was a letter In which he 
said that the men sent from Philadelphia were to be em- 
ployed In laying thc pipes for the introduction of Croton 
water. The Whig leaders were immediately stigmatized 
as pipe layers, a term persistently applied to them for sev- 
eral years. Thurloa Weed, Autoblog., p. 498. 
pipe-laying (pip'la'ing), n. 1. The act of lay- 
ing down pipes for gas, water, and other pur- 
poses. 2. A laying of plans for the promotion 
or accomplishment of some scheme or purpose, 
especially a political one ; scheming or intrigu- 
ing. See the quotation under pipe-layer, 2. 
pipe-lee (plp'le), n. Tobacco half-smoked to 
ashes in a pipe. G. A. Stila. 
pipe-line (pip'lin), n. A conduit of iron pipe, 
chiefly laid under ground, through which oil is 
forced by pumping to transport it from an oil- 
region to storage-tanks at a general market or 
refinery. The method has been put In operation in the 
United States on a vast scale, as a substitute for other 
means of transportation, and carried out with all the re- 
finements of modern pumplng-machinery, the result being 
an enormous reduction in the cost of transportation and 
in the costof petroleum products to consumers. The con- 
duits are constructed of lap-welded iron pipe*, with pump- 
ing-stations at intervals of varying lengths, according as 
the grade is ascending or descending, the average being 
about 30 miles. The diameters of the pipes are adapted 
to the needs of the various lines, inches being the size 
used on most trunk-lines, and two or more pipes being 
employed when greater capacity is required. The longest 
existing trunk-line is that connecting the Pennsylvania 
oil region in opposite directions with New York and Chi- 
cago. This and other trunk-lino, and lines leading from 
wells to pumping-stations, etc., make up an aggregate ex- 
tent of many thousand miles. The pipes are liable to ob 
struction from deposits of paraffin and foreign matters. 
Such accumulations are removed by driving a sort of pis- 
ton (called by the workmen a "go-devil") through the pipes, 
from station to station, by the pressure of the liquid col 
iiiiin behind it. 
^~siA-"S tat&ate J&,*"* *i *~i*-wsH 
3. In ichth.: (a) The most general English name 
of the lyre-gurnard, Trigla lyra. (b) An exoc- 
toid fish, Bfmirhamphus intermediun, with an 
elongate body and ensiform lower jaw, common 
in New Zealand, and esteemed for its flesh as 
well as for the sport it gives. Also called gar- 
fixh, ihi, and half beak. 
I look on the Piper as the float flsh of New Zealand. 
The field (London), Nov. 26, 1871. 
4. A kind of caddis-worm. See the quotation. 
You are also to know that there be divers kinds of cadis 
or case-worms, that are to bee found In this nation In 
several distinct counties, . . . as namely one cadis, called 
a Piper, whose husk or case Is a piece of reed about an 
Inch long or longer, and as big about as the compass of a 
two pence. /. Walton, Complete Angler, L 17. 
5. The piper-urchin. 6. In apiculture, an af- 
ter-swarm having a virgin queen. PUn, Diet. 
Apiculture, p. 53. 7. See the quotation. 
A clever arrangement of screens over which a bushy- 
tailed dog not unlike a fox the piper, as it is called 
Is taught to leap at the word of command. 
Athenxum, No. 3069, p. 281. 
Drunk as a piper, very drunk. [Colloq.] 
Jerry thought proper to mount the table, and harangue 
In praise of temperance ; and In short proceeded so long 
In recommending sobriety, and in tossing off horns of ale, 
that he became as drunk as a piper. 
Oraves, Spiritual Quixote, x. 29. (Dana.) 
To pay the piper. See ami. 
Piper 2 (pi'per), n. [NL. (Linnaeus, 1737), < L. 
piper, pepper : see pepper.] A genus of plants, 
the type or the order 1'iperacex and tribe /'///< - 
rete, characterized by the two to six stamens 
with distinct anther-cells, and an obtuse or 
slightly beaked ovary crowned with from two 
to five stigmas, becoming in fruit a small berry. 
There are over 660 species, widely dispersed through the 
tropics. They are most commonly Jointed shrubby 
climbers, rarely trees or tall herbs, bearing alternate 
entire leaves with several or many conspicuous nerves, 
and large and often wing-like stipules. The flowers are 
densely packed together In cylindrical stalked spikes (or 
in a few specie* In racemes) at first terminal, soon be- 
coming opposite the leaves (as in PhyliJacca), pendulous 
and slender, with din-clous or perfect flowers without ca- 
lyx or corolla, each with a shield shaped protecting bract. 
The Piper .Kthiopicuin of the shops Is now placed in tin 
genus Xylnpia. See pepper, Chamra, and oH of cubrbt (un- 
der off); and for important species, see betel, eolts/uot (and 
/ *. iTTi~ i "~7 lontc. narrow loop 
shapes the exterior surface of the pipe. Apiece i ...A-I.,,] <,*._,, A- rr ;,,,,;/ 
called the core is supported in such manner that one of ': * g' if**** . 
its extremities protrudes outwardly into, and is held con- pipe-metal (pip met'al), W. See organ-metal. 
centrically within, the pipe die. this forms an annular under metal. 
, , . - 
holding the end of a Piperaceae (pip-e-ra'se-e), u.pl. [NL.(Richard 
1815). < n/M-r +"-</(.] The pepper family 

order of ajietnlous plants" of ' the 
Micrembryese, distinguished by the syncurpk- 
