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of a filter; specifically, an openwork or perforated screen, as for the end of the suctionpipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid.

To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as with the hand or a rope. Our Saxon ancestors compelled the adulteress to strangle herself. Ayliffe.

s. They are parasitic in the larval state on bees, wasps, and the like; -- called also Rhipiptera. See Illust. under Rhipipter.

eral trees of the genus Eucalyptus (as E. amygdalina, obliqua, capitellata, macrorhyncha, piperita, pilularis, and tetradonta), which have a fibrous bark used by the aborigines for making cordage and cloth.

A pipe through which anything is drawn.

ids, by exhausting the air. Suction chamber, the chamber of a pump into which the suction pipe delivers. -- Suction pipe, Suction valve, the induction pipe, and induction valve, of a pump, respectively. -- Suction pump, the common pump, in which the water is raised into the barrel by atmospheric pressure. See Illust.…

To choke or kill by stopping respiration; to stifle; to smother. Let not hemp his windpipe suffocate. Shak.

A plant growing on another, as the mistletoe; an epiphyte. [Obs.] Bacon.

A species of toad native of Surinam. See Pipa.

andy. [Slang] Ground swell. See under Ground. -- Organ swell (Mus.), a certain number of pipes inclosed in a box, the uncovering of which by means of a pedal produces increased sound. -- Swell shark (Zoöl.), a small shark (Scyllium ventricosum) of the west coast of North America, which takes in air when caught, and s…

A stringed instrument formerly in use, somewhat resembling the virginal. With harp and pipe and symphony. Chaucer.

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.

A coarse blackish seaweed (Fuscus nodosus). Dr. Prior. Tang sparrow (Zoöl.), the rock pipit. [Prov. Eng.]

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.