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Pipe
·noun The key or sound of the voice.
II. Pipe ·noun An elongated body or vein of ore.
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Pipe
(1 Sam. 10:5; 1 Kings 1:40; Isa. 5:12; 30:29). The Hebrew word halil, so rendered, means "bored thro...
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pipe
n.
an obsolete word, explained inquotations.
1836. Ross, `Hobart Town Almanack,' p. 105:
«These w...
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pipe
A measure of wine containing two hogsheads, or 125 gallons, equal to half a tun. Also, a peculiar wh...
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Pipe
(Heb. chalil). The Hebrew word so rendered is derived from a root signifying "to bore, perforate" an...
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Air
·noun Intelligence; information.
II. Air ·noun Odoriferous or contaminated air.
III. Air ·noun Utt...
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Air
The atmosphere, as opposed to the higher regions of the sky (1 Thess. 4:17; Rev. 9:2; 16:17). This w...
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air
The elastic, compressible, and dilatable fluid encompassing the terraqueous globe. It penetrates and...
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Blast pipe
·- The exhaust pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as t...
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Flue pipe
·add. ·- A pipe, ·esp. an organ pipe, whose tone is produced by the impinging of a current of air up...
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Pipe clay
·- A plastic, unctuous clay of a grayish white color, — used in making tobacco pipes and various kin...
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Pipe layer
·- One who lays conducting pipes in the ground, as for water, gas, ·etc.
II. Pipe layer ·- A politi...
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Pipe laying
·- The laying of conducting pipes underground, as for water, gas, ·etc.
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Pipe line
·add. ·- A line of pipe with pumping machinery and apparatus for conveying liquids, ·esp. petroleum,...
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Pipe-line
·add. ·vt To convey by a pipe line; to furnish with a pipe line or pipe lines.
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Soil pipe
·add. ·- A pipe or drain for carrying off night soil.
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Twire-pipe
·noun A vagabond musician.
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Water pipe
·- A pipe for conveying water.
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The Pipe Yard
1) In Whitefriars (Strype, ed 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
2) In Bristol Street, Pudd...
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clyster pipe
A nick name for an apothecary.
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quail-pipe
A woman's tongue; also a device to take birds of that name by imitating their call. Quail pipe boots...
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whore pipe
The penis.
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pipe-fish
n.
common fishname. The speciespresent in Australia and New Zealand is Ichthyocampusfilum, Gunth., ...
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pipe-laying
This term, in political parlance, means any arrangement by which a party makes sure of a certain add...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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swine-pipe
i. e. whine-pipe, the Red-wing. Pennant.
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blow-pipe
An engine of offence used by the Araucanians and Borneans, and with the latter termed sumpitan: the ...
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chain-pipe
An aperture through which a chain-cable passes from the chain-well to the deck above.
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deck-pipe
An iron pipe through which the chain cable is paid into the chain-locker.
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eduction pipe
A pipe leading from the bottom of a steam-cylinder to the upper part of the condenser in a steam-eng...
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gas-pipe
A term jocularly applied to the newly-introduced breech-loading rifle.
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hawse-pipe
A cast-iron pipe in the hawse-holes to prevent the cable from cutting the wood.
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injection-pipe
This is fixed in the interior of a marine steam-engine, is fitted with a cock, and communicates with...
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pipe-clay
Known to the ancients under the name of paretonium; formerly indispensable to soldiers as well as th...
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pipe down!
The order to dismiss the men from the deck when a duty has been performed on board ship.
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pipe-fish
A fish of the genus Syngnathus, with an elongated slender body and long tubular mouth.
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steam-pipe
See waste steam-pipe.
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Air bed
·- A sack or matters inflated with air, and used as a bed.
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Air bladder
·- A sac or bladder full of air in an animal or plant; also an air hole in a casting.
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Air brake
·- A railway brake operated by condensed air.
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Air brush
·add. ·- A kind of atomizer for applying liquid coloring matter in a spray by compressed air.
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Air cell
·- A cavity in the cellular tissue of plants, containing air only.
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Air chamber
·- A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant.
II. Air chamber ·- A cavity containi...
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Air cock
·- A faucet to allow escape of air.
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Air cooling
·add. ·- In gasoline-engine motor vehicles, the cooling of the cylinder by increasing its radiating ...
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Air drill
·- A drill driven by the elastic pressure of condensed air; a pneumatic drill.
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Air engine
·- An engine driven by heated or by compressed air.
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Air gap
·add. ·- An air-filled gap in a magnetic or electric circuit; specif., in a dynamo or motor, the spa...
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Air gas
·- ·see under <<Gas>>.
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Air gun
·- A kind of gun in which the elastic force of condensed air is used to discharge the ball. The air ...
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Air hole
·- A fault in a casting, produced by a bubble of air; a blowhole.
II. Air hole ·- A hole to admit o...
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Air jacket
·- A jacket having air-tight cells, or cavities which can be filled with air, to render persons buoy...
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Air level
·- Spirit level. ·see <<Level>>.
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Air line
·add. ·- A path through the air made easy for aerial navigation by steady winds.
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Air plant
·- A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone; an <<Aerophyte>>.
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Air poise
·- An instrument to measure the weight of air.
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Air pump
·- A pump used to exhaust from a condenser the condensed steam, the water used for condensing, and a...
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Air sac
·- One of the spaces in different parts of the bodies of birds, which are filled with air and connec...
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Air shaft
·- A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel.
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Air stove
·- A stove for heating a current of air which is directed against its surface by means of pipes, and...
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Air vessel
·- A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds,...
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Air-built
·adj Erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an air-built castle.
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Air-drawn
·adj Drawn in air; imaginary.
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Air-slacked
·adj Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime.
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Air-tight
·noun A stove the draft of which can be almost entirely shut off.
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Liquid air
·add. ·- A transparent limpid liquid, slightly blue in color, consisting of a mixture of liquefied o...
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Open-air
·adj Taking place in the open air; outdoor; as, an open-air game or meeting.
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air-bladder
A vesicle containing gas, situated immediately beneath the spinal column in most fish, and often com...
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air-braving
Defying the winds.
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air-cone
in the marine engine, is to receive the gases which enter the hot-well from the air-pump, where, aft...
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air-funnel
A cavity formed by omission of a timber in the upper works of a vessel, to admit fresh air into the ...
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air-gun
A silent weapon, which propels bullets by the expansive force of air only.
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air-jacket
A leathern garment furnished with inflated bladders, to buoy the wearer up in the water. (See ayr.)
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air-pipes
Funnels for clearing ships' holds of foul air, on the principle of the rarefying power of heat.
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air-ports
Large scuttles in ships' bows for the admission of air, when the other ports are down. The Americans...
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air-pump
An apparatus to remove the water and gases accumulating in the condenser while the engine is at work...
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air-scuttles
The same as air-ports.
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air-shafts
Vertical holes made in mining, to supply the adits with fresh air. Wooden shafts are sometimes adopt...
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foul air
May be generated by circumstances beyond control: decomposing fungi, timber injected with coal tar, ...
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Old Pipe Yard
South out of Bristol Street to Lime Wharf (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, 1799).
"The Pipe Yard" (Dodsley, 176...
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blow-off-pipe
, in a steamer, is a pipe at the foot of each boiler, communicating with the sea, and furnished with...
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air and exercise
He has had air and exercise, i.e. he has been whipped at the cart's tail; or, as it is generally, th...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Hole in the air
·add. ·- = Air hole, above.
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