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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.

lant growing entirely in the air, and receiving its nourishment from it; an air plant or epiphyte.

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.

ds of lignite, or on the seashore in many places. It takes a fine polish, and is used for pipe mouthpieces, beads, etc., and as a basis for a fine varnish. By friction, it becomes strongly electric.

which produces the areca nut, or betel nut, which is chewed in India with the leaf of the Piper Betle and lime.

Of or pertaining to the windpipe.

The trachea or windpipe. [Obs.] "Under the artery, or windpipe, is the mouth of the stomach." Holland.

Of or pertaining to a pipe (flute) or piper. [R.] Ash.

wd, or a prostitute. [Obs.] Shak. Aunt Sally, a puppet head placed on a pole and having a pipe in its mouth; also a game, which consists in trying to hit the pipe by throwing short bludgeons at it.