Webster's Dictionary 1913

4591

Pinxter

Pinx″ter (?), n. See Pinkster.

4592

Piny

Pin″y (?), a. Abounding with pines. [Written also piney.] “The piny wood.” Longfellow.

4593

Pioned

Pi″o‐ned (?), a. A Shakespearean word of disputed meaning; perh., “abounding in marsh marigolds.”Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims. Shak.

4594

Pioneer

Pi′o‐neer″ (?), n. [F. pionier, orig., a foot soldier, OF. peonier, fr. OF. peon a foot soldier, F. pion. See Pawn in chess.] 1. (Mil.) A soldier detailed or employed to form ro...

4595

Pioneer (2)

Pi′o‐neer″, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p.Pioneered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Pioneering.] To go before, and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer.

4596

Pioneers' Day

Pi′o‐neers'″ Day (?). In Utah, a legal holiday, July 24, commemorated the arrival, in 1847, of Brigham Young and his followers at the present site of Salt Lake City.

4597

Pioner

Pi′o‐ner″ (?), n. A pioneer. Shak.

4598

Piony

Pi″o‐ny (?), n.(Bot.) See Peony.

4599

Piot

Pi″ot (?), n. [See Piet.] (Zoöl.) The magpie. Holland.

4600

Pious

Pi″ous (?), a. [L. pius: cf. F. pieux.] 1. Of or pertaining to piety; exhibiting piety; reverential; dutiful; religious; devout; godly. “Pious hearts.” Milton. “Pious poetry.” J...

4601

Piously

Pi″ous‐ly, adv. In a pious manner.

4602

Pip

Pip (?), n. [OE. pippe, D. pip, or F. pépie; from LL. pipita, fr. L. pituita slime, phlegm, rheum, in fowls, the pip. Cf. Pituite.] A contagious disease of fowls, characterized ...

4603

Pip (2)

Pip, n. [Formerly pippin, pepin. Cf. Pippin.] (Bot.) A seed, as of an apple or orange.

4604

Pip (3)

Pip, n. [Perh. for pick, F. pique a spade at cards, a pike. Cf. Pique.] One of the conventional figures or “spots” on playing cards, dominoes, etc. Addison.

4605

Pip (4)

Pip, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Pipped (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Pipping.] [See Peep.] To cry or chirp, as a chicken; to peep.To hear the chick pip and cry in the egg. Boyle.

4606

Pipa

Pi‐pa (?), n.; pl.Pipas (�). (Zoöl.) The Surinam toad (Pipa Americana), noted for its peculiar breeding habits.☞ The male places the eggs on the back of the female, where they s...

4607

Pipage

Pip″age (?), n. Transportation, as of petroleum oil, by means of a pipe conduit; also, the charge for such transportation.

4608

Pipal tree

Pi″pal tree′ (?). Same as Peepul tree.

4609

Pipe

Pipe (?), n. [AS. pīpe, probably fr. L. pipare, pipire, to chirp; of imitative origin. Cf. Peep, Pibroch, Fife.] 1. A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of ...

4610

Pipe (2)

Pipe, v. i. 1. To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music.We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced. Matt. xi. 17.2. (Naut.) To call, convey ...

4611

Pipe (3)

Pipe (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Piped (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Piping.] 1. To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.A robin....

4612

Pipe clay

Pipe″ clay′ (klā′). A plastic, unctuous clay of a grayish white color, — used in making tobacco pipes and various kinds of earthenware, in scouring cloth, and in cleansing soldi...

4613

Pipe line

Pipe line. A line of pipe with pumping machinery and apparatus for conveying liquids, esp. petroleum, between distant points.

4614

Pipe-line

Pipe″–line′, v. t. To convey by a pipe line; to furnish with a pipe line or pipe lines.

4615

Pipeclay

Pipe″clay′, v. t. 1. To whiten or clean with pipe clay, as a soldier's accouterments.2. To clear off; as, to pipeclay accounts.

4616

Piped

Piped (?), a. Formed with a pipe; having pipe or pipes; tubular.

4617

Pipefish

Pipe″fish′ (?), n.(Zoöl.) Any lophobranch fish of the genus Siphostoma, or Syngnathus, and allied genera, having a long and very slender angular body, covered with bony plates. ...