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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.

or a becoming manifest. Whom but just before they beheld transfigured and in a glorious epiphany upon the mount. Jer. Taylor. An epic poet, if ever such a difficult birth should make its epiphany in Paris. De Quincey.

An epipharyngeal bone or cartilage.

A structure which overlaps the mouth of certain insects.

An exclamatory sentence, or striking reflection, which sums up or concludes a discourse.

Epiphonema. [R.]

The watery eye; a disease in which the tears accumulate in the eye, and trickle over the cheek.

A membranaceous or calcareous septum with which some mollusks close the aperture of the shell during the time of hibernation, or æstivation.

Bearing fruit on the back of the leaves, as ferns. Harris (1710).