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Piping   /pˈaɪpɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Piping  n.  
1.
A small cord covered with cloth, used as trimming for women's dresses.
2.
Pipes, collectively; as, the piping of a house.
3.
The act of playing on a pipe; the shrill noted of birds, etc.
4.
A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting; also, propagation by cuttings.


adjective
Piping  adj.  
1.
Playing on a musical pipe. "Lowing herds and piping swains."
2.
Peaceful; favorable to, or characterized by, the music of the pipe rather than of the drum and fife.
3.
Emitting a high, shrill sound.
4.
Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; from the sound of boiling fluids.
Piping crow, Piping crow shrike, Piping roller (Zool.), any Australian bird of the genus Gymnorhina, esp. Gymnorhina tibicen, which is black and white, and the size of a small crow. Called also caruck.
Piping frog (Zool.), a small American tree frog (Hyla Pickeringii) which utters a high, shrill note in early spring.
Piping hot, boiling hot; hissing hot; very hot. (Colloq.)





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"Piping" Quotes from Famous Books



... was calling him, and without hesitation he returned to him and replied to his questions; indeed it was easier to him to speak than to listen, for in his ears there was a roaring, moaning, singing, and piping, and he felt as if drunk with ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... piping time of peace the nearest analogues in history would seem to be the Roman peace, say, of the days of the Antonines, and passably the British peace of the Victorian era. Changes in the scheme of law and order supervened in both of these ...
— An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation • Thorstein Veblen
... the Princess Victoria came of age. She was awakened early by a matutinal serenade—a band of musicians piping and harping merrily under her bedroom windows. She received many presents and congratulatory visits, and had the pleasure of knowing that the day was observed as a grand holiday in London and throughout England. Boys were let out ...
— Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood • Grace Greenwood
... free from all magnetic influences, so that it would be suitable for electrical work of the utmost accuracy and precision. Hence, iron and steel were entirely eliminated in its construction, copper being used for fixtures for steam and water piping, and, indeed, for all other purposes where metal ...
— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
... passed in the reign of Elizabeth touching minstrels, who were to be included among "rogues, vagabonds, and sturdy beggars" wandering abroad. Lord Chesterfield says, "Music is usually reckoned one of the liberal arts, and not unjustly, but a man of fashion who is seen piping or Fiddling at a concert degrades his own dignity. If you love music, hear it; pay Fiddlers to play for you, but never Fiddle yourself." Such was Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son. It is quite evident that he had no notion of the exquisite enjoyment derivable from being an executant in a quartette, ...
— The Violin - Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators • George Hart


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