PIPE
PIPE, noun [Eng. fife.]1. A wind instrument of music, consisting of a long tube of wood or metal; as a rural pipe The word, I believe, is not now the proper technical name of an...
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PIPE-FISH
PI'PE-FISH, noun A fish of the genus Syngnathus.
PIPE-TREE
PIPE-TREE, noun The lilac.
PIPED
PI'PED, adjective Formed with a tube; tubular.
PIPER
PI'PER, noun One who plays on a pipe or wind instrument.
PIPERIDGE
PIP'ERIDGE, noun A shrub, the berberis, or barberry.The piperidge of New England is the nyssa villosa, a large tree with very tough wood.
PIPERIN
PIP'ERIN, noun A concretion of volcanic ashes.1. A peculiar crystalline substance extracted from black pepper. The crystals of piperin are transparent, of a straw color, and the...
PIPING
PI'PING, participle present tense Playing on a pipe.1.adjective Weak; feeble; sickly. [Vulgar and not in use in America.]2. Very hot; boiling; from the sound of boiling fluids. ...
PIPISTREL
PIPIS'TREL, noun A species of bat, the smallest of the kind.
PIPKIN
PIP'KIN, noun [dim. of pipe.] A small earthen boiler.
PIPPIN
PIP'PIN, noun A kind of apple; a tart apple. This name in America is given to several kinds of apples, as to the Newtown pippin an excellent winter apple, and the summer pippin ...
PIQUANCY
PIQUANCY, noun pik'ancy. [infra.] Sharpness; pungency; tartness; severity.
PIQUANT
PIQUANT, adjective pik'ant.1. Pricking; stimulating to the tongue; as rock as piguant to the tongue as salt.2. Sharp; tart; pungent; severe; as piquant railleries.
PIQUANTLY
PIQUANTLY, adverb pik'antly. With sharpness or pungency; tartly.
PIQUE
PIQUE, noun peek. An offense taken; usually, slight anger, irritation or displeasure at persons, rather temporary than permanent, and distinguished either in degree or temporari...
PIQUED
PIQUED, participle passive pee'ked. Irritated; nettled; offended; excited.
PIQUEER
PIQUEER. [See Pickeer.]
PIQUEERER
PIQUEE'RER, noun A plunderer; a freebooter. [See Pickeerer.]
PIQUET
PIQUET. [See Picket.]PIQUET, noun piket'. A game at cards played between two persons, with only thirty two cards; all the deuces, threes, fours, fives and sixes being set aside.
PIQUING
PIQUING, participle present tense pee'king. Irritating; offending; priding.
PIRACY
PI'RACY, noun [Latin piratica, from Gr. to attempt, to dare, to enterprise, whence Latin periculum, experior; Eng. to fare.]1. The act, practice or crime of robbing on the high ...
PIRAGUA
PIRAGUA, noun pirau'gua. This word is variously written, periagua or pirogue. The former is the spelling of Washington and Jefferson; the latter of Charlevoix.]1. A canoe formed...
PIRATE
PI'RATE, noun [Latin pirata.]1. A robber on the high seas; one that by open violence takes the property of another on the high seas. In strictness, the word pirate is one who ma...
PIRATED
PI'RATED, participle passive Taken by theft or without right.
PIRATICAL
PIRAT'ICAL, adjective [Latin piraticus.] Robbing or plundering by open violence on the high seas; as a piratical commander or ship.1. Consisting in piracy; predatory; robbing; a...
PIRATICALLY
PIRAT'ICALLY, adverb By piracy.
PIRATING
PI'RATING, participle present tense Robbing on the high seas; taking without right, as a book or writing.1.adjective Undertaken for the sake of piracy; as a pirating expedition.