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uch as wood or felt, used to prevent radiation of heat, as from a steam boiler, cylinder, pipe, etc.

A small American sandpiper (Tringa maculata); -- called also pectoral sandpiper, and grass snipe.

A shooting forth; a spouting; a spurt; a sudden rush or gush, as of water from a pipe, or of flame from an orifice; also, that which issues in a jet.

A stream of water spouting from a fountain or pipe (especially from one arranged to throw water upward), in a public place or in a garden, for ornament.

lose-fitting or junction; junction as, a joint between two pieces of timber; a joint in a pipe.

Expressing mirth, or inspiring it; exciting mirth and gayety. And with his jolly pipe delights the groves. Prior. Their jolly notes they chanted loud and clear. Fairfax.

A species of Macropiper (M. methysticum), the long pepper, from the root of which an intoxicating beverage is made by the Polynesians, by a process of mastication; also, the beverage itself. [Written also kawa, kava, and ava.]

A conical valve, opening outward, to close the mouth of a pipe which passes through the side of a vessel below the water line.

A sandpiper (Tringa canutus), found in the northern parts of all the continents, in summer. It is grayish or ashy above, with the rump and upper tail coverts white, barred with dusky. The lower parts are pale brown, with the flanks and under tail coverts white. When fat it is prized by epicures. Called also dunne.…

A short right-angled pipe fitting, used in connecting two pipes at right angles. [Written also ell.]

Furnished with lips; as, a labial organ pipe.

The lip of an organ pipe.

The water pepper (Polygonum Hydropiper), an aquatic plant of Europe and North America.

ing alcohol which is converted into vapor by a lamp beneath, so as to make a powerful blowpipe flame when the vapor is ignited. Weale. -- Arc lamp (Elec.), a form of lamp in which the voltaic arc is used as the source of light. -- Dëbereiner's lamp, an apparatus for the instantaneous production of a flame by the spon…

Anything resembling the tongue in form or office; specif., the slip of metal in an organ pipe which turns the current of air toward its mouth.

Having edges or ends united by a lap weld; as, a lap-welded pipe.

The expanded upper end of the windpipe or trachea, connected with the hyoid bone or cartilage. It contains the vocal cords, which produce the voice by their vibrations, when they are stretched and a current of air passes between them. The larynx is connected with the pharynx by an opening, the glottis, which, in mammal…

A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor. (h) (Fishing)

r other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe. "One leak will sink a ship." Bunyan.

a series, or of a number of long pieces which may be connected together; as, a length of pipe; a length of fence.