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anch fishes which have an elongated snout and lack the ventral and first dorsal fins. The pipefishes and sea horses are examples. -- Syng"na*thous, a.

The mock orange; -- popularly so called because its stems were formerly used as pipestems.

A wind instrument made of reeds tied together; -- called also pandean pipes.

A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both being played by the same person. [Written also tabour, and taber.]

A long sheet-metal pipe for a chimney top.

A plug for upper end of an organ pipe.

The sea adder, or great pipefish of Europe.

-- Tank iron, plate iron thinner than boiler plate, and thicker than sheet iron or stovepipe iron. -- Tank worm (Zoöl.), a small nematoid worm found in the water tanks of India, supposed by some to be the young of the Guinea worm.

A hole or pipe through which liquor is drawn.

Any one of several species of large, long-legged sandpipers belonging to the genus Totanus.

A short piece of pipe having a lateral outlet, used to connect a line of pipe with a pipe at a right angle with the line; -- so called because it resembles the letter T in shape.

The spotted sandpiper. See the Note under Sandpiper.

A sandpiper (Terekia cinerea) of the Old World, breeding in the far north of eastern Europe and Asia and migrating to South Africa and Australia. It frequents rivers.

A pipe, funnel, or chimney, as for smoke. Chaucer.

A tank containing pipes through which circulates steam, water, air, or the like, for heating or cooling; -- used in some heating and ventilation systems.

Windpipe; throttle. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Connected with, or serving to connect, three channels or pipes; as, a three-way cock or valve.

mast. -- Throat halyards (Naut.), halyards that raise the throat of the gaff. -- Throat pipe (Anat.), the windpipe, or trachea. -- To give one the lie in his throat, to accuse one pointedly of lying abominably. -- To lie in one's throat, to lie flatly or abominably.

The windpipe. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand. Sir W. Scott.