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A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite.

A small glass tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, -- used for transferring or delivering measured quantities.

The Dutchman's pipe. See under Dutchman.

caceous shrub (Leucothoë acuminata) of the southern United States, from the wood of which pipe bowls are made.

Any plant of a genus (Eriocaulon) of aquatic or marsh herbs with soft grass-like leaves.

A pipe for the passage of air; esp. a ventilating pipe.

To make to look like a bagpipe. To bagpipe the mizzen (Naut.), to lay it aback by bringing the sheet to the mizzen rigging. Totten.

One who plays on a bagpipe; a piper. Shak.

The exhaust pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as to cause a blast.

A blowgun; a blowtube. Blowpipe analysis (Chem.), analysis by means of the blowpipe. -- Blowpipe reaction (Chem.), the characteristic behavior of a substance subjected to a test by means of the blowpipe.

See Catcall.

A pipe for carrying off waste water, etc., from a sink or cesspool. Knight.

A pipe used for carrying off surplus water.

A pipe for forcing into the earth.

One of the low-toned tubes of a bagpipe.

The mensuration of figures standing on the same base. [Obs.]

Connected with, or having its origin upon, the external surface of the body; -- especially applied to the feelings which originate at the extremities of nerves distributed on the outer surface, as the sensation produced by touching an object with the finger; -- opposed to entoperipheral. H. Spenser.…

Borne on the petals or corolla.

A pipe, esp. an organ pipe, whose tone is produced by the impinging of a current of air upon an edge, or lip, causing a wave motion in the air within; a mouth pipe; -- distinguished from reed pipe. Flue pipes are either open or closed (stopped at the distant end). The flute and flageolet are open pipes; a bottle acts a…

The upper terminal pipe of a mining pump. Raymond.