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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.

A drone bass, as in a bagpipe, or a hurdy-gurdy. See Burden (of a song.)

The drone of a bagpipe. Ruddiman.

The flute or finger pipe in a bagpipe. See Bagpipe.

The flute of a bagpipe. See Chanter, n., 3.

A wind instrument nearly identical with the bagpipe. Drayton.

The Scotch bagpipe. [Prov. Eng.]

A drum. [Obs.] Halliwell. (b) The part of the bagpipe containing the two lowest tubes, which always sound the key note and the fifth.

One of the low-toned tubes of a bagpipe.

A little bagpipe. [Obs.] Drayton.

A small bagpipe formerly in use, having a soft and sweet tone.

an would either excite or assuage; generally applied to those airs that are played on the bagpipe before the Highlanders when they go out to battle. Jamieson.

A fife; also, a rude kind of oboe or a bagpipe with an inflated skin for reservoir.

The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.

One who plays on a pipe, or the like, esp. on a bagpipe. "The hereditary piper and his sons." Macaulay.

To causse to make a noise; to play on; as, to sound a trumpet or a horn. A bagpipe well could he play and soun[d]. Chaucer.

A sort of bagpipe formerly in use among Italian peasants. It is now almost obsolete. [Written also zampugna.]