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To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.

To convey by a pipe line; to furnish with a pipe line or pipe lines.

ither as a pistol or a carbine. -- Pistol pipe (Metal.), a pipe in which the blast for a furnace is heated, resembling a pistol in form. -- Pistol shot. (a) The discharge of a pistol. (b) The distance to which a pistol can propel a ball.

hese Goodman Fact was very short, but pithy. Addison. Pithy gall (Zoöl.), a large, rough, furrowed, oblong gall, formed on blackberry canes by a small gallfly (Diastrophus nebulosus).

To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest.

The common people; the mob. [Obs.] The plebe with thirst and fury prest. Sylvester.

To furnish; to stock, as a house or farm. [Scot.]

Household furniture; stock. [Scot.]

en, or other power, for turning up the soil to prepare it for bearing crops; also used to furrow or break up the soil for other purposes; as, the subsoil plow; the draining plow. Where fern succeeds ungrateful to the plow. Dryden.

An adjustable staff formerly attached to the plow beam to determine the depth of the furrow. Piers Plowman.

e share of a plow, or that part which cuts the slice of earth or sod at the bottom of the furrow. Plowshare bone (Anat.), the pygostyle.

One who works in lead; esp., one who furnishes, fits, and repairs lead, iron, or glass pipes, and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage in buildings.

ng and working in lead, and applying it to building purposes; especially, the business of furnishing, fitting, and repairing pipes for conducting water, sewage, etc. Gwilt.

It is partially amphibious, very powerful, and the most carnivorous of all the bears. The fur is white, tinged with yellow. Called also White bear. See Bear. -- Polar body, cell, or globule (Biol.), a minute cell which separates by karyokinesis from the ovum during its maturation. In the maturation of ordinary ova two…

To furnish with poles for support; as, to pole beans or hops.

Toward a pole of the earth. "The regions further polewards." Whewell.

A low, flat vessel, resembling a barge, furnished with cranes, capstans, and other machinery, used in careening ships, raising weights, drawing piles, etc., chiefly in the Mediterranean; a lighter. Pontoon bridge, a bridge formed with pontoons. -- Pontoon train, the carriages of the pontoons, and the materials they ca…

Having a poop; furnished with a poop.

To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited; to people.

Having grooves or furrows broader than the intervening ridges; furrowed.