piping 
taking slips or cuttings consist ing of two joints, 
and planting them in moist sand under glass; 
also, one of these cuttings. 
No botanist am I. nor wished to learn from you all the 
Muses that piping has a new signiltcatlon. I had rather 
that you handled an oaten reed than a carnation one, yet 
setting layers I own Is preferable to reading newspapers, 
one of the chronical maladies of this age. 
Walpole, Letters (1788), iv. 440. 
11. A way of dressing the hair by curling it 
around little pins of wood or baked clay called 
liilliiHiuetii. 12. In metal. See pipe 1 , 20. 
piping (pi'ping), p. a. 1. Playing on a pipe. 
Lowing herds, and pipittg swains. Swtft. 
2. Having a shrill, whistling sound. 
The mother looked wistfully seaward at the changes of 
the keen piping moorland winds. 
Mrs. QaMl, Sylvia's Lovers, i. 
3. In zoiil., having or habitually uttering a 
shrill, whistling cry: said especially of birds. 
4. Accompanied by the music of the peaceful 
pipe, rather than that of the martial trump or 
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, 
Have no delight to pass away the time. 
Shak., Klch. III., I. 1. 24. 
5. Simmering; boiling. 6. The noise made 
by bees preparatory to swarming Piping hot, 
so hot as to hiss or simmer, as a boiling fluid. 
Waf res pipyng hoot, out of the gleede. 
Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 193. 
A nice pretty bit of ox-cheek, piping-hot and dressed with 
a little of my own sauce. 
Qoldmnith, Citizen of the World, Ixv. 
piping-crow (pi'ping-kro), n. Any bird of the 
genus Gymnorhina, of which there are several 
Australian species. The best-known is O. tibicen, of 
a black and white color, with great powers of mimicry. 
It Is often domesticated, and can be taught to speak words. 
4507 
North American. The flies are of small or moderate size, 
and dark metallic green or black color. They are thinly 
Root-louse Fly {fiftta raditum). 
a, larva ; f>, pupariuni ; < . fly. (Lines show natural sizes.) 
pilose, have the scutellum without points, and have the 
third longitudinal wing-vein with no projecting stump In 
the first posterior cell. 
pipkin (pip'kin), 11. [< pipe 1 + -kin.'] 1. A 
small eartnen pot, with or without a cover and 
with a horizontal handle. 2. A small wooden 
tub the handle of which is formed by the ver- 
tical prolongation of one of the staves. 
The beechen platter sprouted wild, 
The pipkin wore Its old-time green. 
H'l.i'ii'i; Flowers in Winter. 
pipkinet (pip'kin-et), . [< pipkin + -et.] A 
little pipkin. 
God ! to my little meale and oyle 
Add but a nit of flesh to boyle, 
And Thou my pipkinnet shalt see 
Give a wave-orf'ring unto Thee. 
Herritk, To God. 
pipowdert, An obsolete form otpiepawdfr. 
Plpperage, . See piperidije. 
Pippian (pip'i-an), n. [So called because de- 
noted by /'.] In math., same as Ctiyleyan. 
" ME. 
seed 
Pipunculidae 
lu i-frtain manikins, ami made type of iln fam- 
ily PipriiUr. They are confined to tropical An. 
/' fliramla has the UU-feathers prolonged In stilt 111 
amenta. P. mantaiiia Is a beautiful species, velvet) 
black, varied with bright blue, orange, and white. 
2. | /. . | A species of this or some related ge- 
nus; a manikin. Bee cut under M/inacus. 
pipraget (pip'raj), . Same as piperi<lge, //.- 
iteriage. 
Piprida (pip'ri-de), u. /./. [NL.,< I'ipra + -irf/r.] 
A neotropical family of songless passerine 
birds, typified by the genus Pipm; OH piprus 
or manikins. They are niesomyodlan Pattern, with 
bronchotracheal syrinx, heteromerous disposition of the 
main artery of the leg, exaspldean tarsi, and somewhat 
syndactylous feet, the outer and middle toes being united 
to some extent. They are mostly small, of stout thick-set 
form, with a short stout bill, broad at the base and some- 
what hooked at the tip; the coloration Is highly varied, 
often gorgeous or exuulslte In the males, the females be- 
ing usually plain. Black Is the prevailing color of the 
males, relieved by brilliant blues, reds, and yellows, the 
females being dull-greenish. Their habit* are said to re- 
semble those of titmice. The genera and specie* are nu- 
merous, and almost entirely confined to South America. 
piprine (pip'rin), a. [< Pipra + -<!.] Be- 
longing or related to the genus Pipra or family 
Pipridte. 
pipsissewa (pip- sis' e-wa), n. [Amer. Ind.] 
The small evergreen, Chimttphiki umbellata, the 
prince's-pine. 
piping-hare (pi'ping-har), w. A pika or calling- 
hare. 
piping-iron (pi'ping-I"ern), n. A fluting-iron ; 
an Italian iron. 
piping-plover (pl'ping-pluv'er), . A small 
ring-necked plover of North America, JRgialites 
melodus, so called from its piping notes. 
a pale-gray color aliove and white below, with ; 
It is of 
a narrow 
Piping-plover (/ffiahtts melodus). 
black frontlet and necklace, and the bill black, orange 
at the base. It is a near relative of the semipalmatcd 
plover, but is rather smaller and lighter-colored, and 
lacks the semipahnation of the toes. 
pipistrel, pipistrelle (pip-is-trel'), . [< F. pi- 
pistrelle, \It.pipitrello, tisjtiatrello, res]>i#trello, 
a var. or dim. of vespertillo, vespertilio, < L. 
vesper tilio, a bat: see Vtspertilio.'] A small Eu- 
ropean bat, Vesperugo pipistrellus, one of the 
most abundant species, of a reddish-brown 
color, paler and grayer below. 
pipit (pip'it), u. [Prob. imitative of its cry.] 
Any bird of the genus Anthus or subfamily An- 
Iliime, of which there are many species, of most 
parts of the world. The commonest pipit of North 
America is A. ludoricianus or penmtyltxttucus, usually 
called titlark. Sprague's pipit, also called the Muaouri sky- 
lark, is A. (Jieocorys) teprayuei. Common British pipits are 
A. pratenxui, the meudow-piplt ; A. arboreus or rrtrioJw, 
tin tree-pipit ; and A. obscurus, the rock-pipit Others of 
occasional occurrence in Great Britain are A. spipoletta, 
the European water-pipit; A. campestris, the European 
tawny pipit; and A. richardi. The red-throated pipit, A. 
cerrinug, of wide distribution in Europe and Asia, has also 
been found in Alaska and California. See cut under A iiMujt. 
pipit-lark (pip'it-liirk), n. A pipit. 
Pipiza (pi-pi'zii), H. [NL. (Fallen, 1816), < Gr. 
mm&iv, pipe, chirp.] A genus of syrphid flies, 
whose larva) are useful in destroying plant-lice. 
Thus, the grub of P. ftmvralis (Loew) or raitinnn (Itlley) 
preys upon the root-louse of the apple (Schizonnira lani- 
gera) and upon the vine peat (Phylloxera vaslatrix). Of 
the many species of this wide-spread genus, about 14 are 
the apple, pear, melon, etc.; cf. Sp. jtfpita 
(with diff. dim. suffix), the seed of a fruit, a 
grain of gold or other metal ; pipa, a kernel ; 
orig. applied, it seems, to the conspicuous seeds 
of the melon and cucumber (cf. Sp. Pg. pe- 
pino, a cucumber); with dim. suffix (F. -in, 
Sp. -ino), < L. pepo (pfpon-), < Gr. irciruv, a 
melon: see pcpo, and cf. pompion, pttntpioii, 
now pumpkin, from the same source. Hence, 
by abbr., pip 2 .'] The seed of a fruit, as an 
apple, pear, melon, etc. Now abbreviated pip. 
Cotgrave. 
What thing may be of vyn, of grape dried vnto the 
}>l'!in. the! shulen not eete [later version : " The! 
scnulen not ete what euer thing may be of the vyner, fro 
a grape dried til to the draf 1 ;' tr. L. ab wa pa&a wtyite 
ad iiri'/iiiui I. H'lt.li.i. Num. vl. 4. 
Alle maner pepinf, cornellis and groynes must be set in 
y erth in depnes of iiij. or v. fuigers ureile, so that eche 
be from odur half a fote, alwey kcping this speclall rale 
that y eudc or greyne of the pepin that stoile next the 
rocte be northest In the settinge and that other ende vp- 
wanl toward heuyn. . . . In vere is most convenable tyme 
for seedis greynos and pepin* and in autumpne of springis 
and plantes. Arnold's Chron. (V*rl), ed. 1811, p. 168. 
pippin- (pip'in), '( [Formerly also pippine; 
< OK. pepiit, F. dial. (Norm.) pepin, a young 
apple-tree raised from the seed () pepinerie, F. 
pepinitre, a seed-plot, a nursery of trees: see 
pejanncrif) ; < pepin, the seed of fruit, as the 
apple, etc.: see pippin 1 . The MD. pipptmi, 
pupping (Kilian), later pippinrk, pufpinck, D. 
pippeling, Dan. pipliny, Sw pippin, pippin, are 
from E.] One of numerous varieties of the 
apple, as the golden pippin, the lemon pippin, 
the Newtown pippin, etc. 
You shall see my orchard, where In an arbour we will 
eat a last year's pippin of my own grafting. 
Shak., -2 Hen. IV., v. S. i 
pippin-face (pip'in-fas), n. A round smooth 
face, suggesting a resemblance to a pippin. 
The hard-headed man with the pippin-face. 
bickem, Pickwick, vi 
pippin-faced (pip'in-fast), a. Having a round 
rosy face, suggestive of a pippin. 
A little hard-headed, Bibstone pippin-faced man. 
Dicktnt, Pickwick, vi. 
pippin-hearted (pip'in-hiir'ted), a. Chicken- 
hearted. 
The inhabitants were obliged to turn out twice a year, 
with such military equipments as it pleased God: and 
were put under the command of tailors and man-milliners, 
who, though on ordinary occasions they might have been 
the meekest, most pippin-hearted little men in the world, 
were very devils at parade. Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 301. 
pippit, . Same as pitpit. 
Pipra (pip'ra), H. [NL. ; of S. Amer. origin (?).] 
1. A Linnpan genus of birds, formerly includ- 
ing many heterogeneous species, now restricted 
Mowering Plant of Pl^ssewa (Chimafliila tiiuMlata\ 
I, a branch ; y, the stem with the fruits, a, a flower; A. a .l.iiuru. 
exterior face : f, one of the petals. 
Piptadenia (pip-ta-de'ni-a), . [NL. (Ben- 
tham, 18Ti2), so calle<l in allusion to the decidu- 
ous glands crowning the anthers; < Gr. iriitTftv, 
fall, + aAifv, a gland.] A genus of leguminous 
trees, type of the tribe 1'iptudeuirie, character- 
ized by the globose heads or cylindrical spikes, 
and flat two-valved pod with the valves entire 
and continuous within. There are about SO species, 
all tropical 2 African, the others American. They are 
shrubs or trees, with or without thorns, with lilplnnnte 
leaves, small and very numerous leaflets, and small white 
or greenish flowers. Tin- best-known species is the niopo- 
tn-e. Another South American species, P. riyida, Is the 
source of valuable timber, and of anglco-gum, similar to 
gum arable. 
Piptadeniese (pip'ta-de-ni'e-e), n. pi. [NL. 
(Dnrand, 1888), C Piptudenia + -ex.] A tribe 
of leguminous plants, of the suborder Mimoxeir, 
consisting of the genera Entada, Plathymenia, 
and Piptadenia, trees or shrubs of tropical 
America and Africa, with sessile flowers in 
dense spikes or heads, having valvate sepals, 
ten stamens, and anthers crowned with decidu- 
ous glands. 
Piptanthus (pip-tan'thus), . [NL. (D. Don, 
1823), so called in allusion to the sides of the 
banner-petal, reflexed as if fallen back on each 
other ; < Gr. iriirreiv, fall, + avdof, flower.] A ge- 
nus of leguminous shrubs, of the tribe Pudaly- 
riese, characterized by the membranous leaflets, 
united stipules opposite the leaves, and united 
keel-petals. The only species, P. Xepalennt, a na- 
tive of the Himalayas, Is a shrub with alternate leaves of 
three radiating li-aflets. and large yellow flowers in abort 
raceme* terminating the branches. It is cultivated for 
ornament under the name Sepal laburnum. See labur- 
pipul, pipul-tree (pip'ul, -tre). n. [Also pijml, 
pipjinl-trre, peepul-tree; < Hind, pipal, the 
'1 fig-tree (see pc]>i>er), + E. free.] The 
~:ici . .1 tii_'-ti-i .', netu relii/ioga. See bo-tree. 
Pipunculid (pip-ung-kii'li-de), n. pi. [NL. 
(Walker, 1834), < Pipum-ulux + -i/te.] A Hiniill 
family of dichaetous dipterous insects, typified 
by the genus I'iinini-iiliin. They are thinly pilose 
or neiirlv nnkcd, with large gul>sph. ri.-nl ln-:nl . ..niji.'-. .1 
chiefly of the great eyes, which are contiguous in the male. 
