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Abounding with pines. [Written also piney.] "The piny wood." Longfellow.

A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ. "Tunable as sylvan pipe." Milton. Now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe. Shak.

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

boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them. He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith. Ecclus. xiii. 1.

A dark blue substance obtained from wood tar. It consists of hydrocarbons which when oxidized form the orange-yellow eupittonic compounds, the salts of which are dark blue.

A floor of wood; also, a plank. [Obs.] Bacon.

A small tablet of wood supported on casters and having a pencil attached. The characters produced by the pencil on paper, while the hand rests on the instrument and it is allowed to move, are sometimes translated as of oracular or supernatural import.

A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavin…

One who, or that which, planes; a planing machine; esp., a machine for planing wood or metals.

A complex machine for planing wood, especially boards, containing usually a rapidly revolving cutter, which chips off the surface in small shavings as the piece to be planed is passed under it by feeding apparatus.

sequent drawing. Planked shad, shad split open, fastened to a plank, and roasted before a wood fire.

The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel.

n; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony. Planting of countries like planting of woods. Bacon.

A mold or matrix in which anything is cast or formed to a particular shape. [R.] Woodward.

A small, shallow, and usually circular, vessel of metal or wood, or of earth glazed and baked, from which food is eaten at table.

A small instrument of ivory, wood, metal, or quill, used in playing upon the lyre and other stringed instruments.

A tissue consisting of long and slender tubular cells, of which wood is mainly composed.

To swell, as grain or wood with water. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

Wood or timber allowed to a tenant for the repair of instruments of husbandry. See Bote.

Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.