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An instrument of music formerly popular in Wales, consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals. It was so called because the bell at the open end was sometimes made of horn.

A species (Polygonum Hydropiper) of knotweed with acrid foliage; water pepper; smartweed.

See Liripoop.

A solid, the faces of which are six parallelograms, the opposite pairs being parallel, and equal to each other; a prism whose base is a parallelogram.

A parallelopiped. Hutton.

A small lamprey eel; the pride. Curlew sandpiper. See under Curlew. -- Stilt sandpiper. See under Stilt.

Same as Scopuliped.

The purple sandpiper.

A pipe or drain for carrying off night soil.

A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level at a distance.

Pipe made of sheet iron in length and angular or curved pieces fitting together, -- used to connect a portable stove with a chimney flue. Stovepipe hat, the common tall silk hat. [Slang, U.S.]

The European redwing. [Prov. Eng.]

A vagabond musician. [Obs.] You are an ass, a twire-pipe. Beau. & Fl. You looked like Twire-pipe, the taborer. Chapman.

A pipe for conveying water.

rnel. There is small red flower in the stubble fields, which country people call the wincopipe; which if it opens in the morning, you may be sure a fair day will follow. Bacon.

The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under Lung.

player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a pianoforte or to the valve of an organ pipe. Grove. Chose in action. (Law) See Chose. -- Quantity of action (Physics), the product of the mass of a body by the space it runs through, and its velocity.

Conveying or containing air; air-bearing; as, the windpipe is an aëriferous tube.

A stove for heating a current of air which is directed against its surface by means of pipes, and then distributed through a building.

A kind of pipe wrench having a flaring jaw with teeth on one side.