·noun The key or sound of the voice.
II. Pipe ·noun An elongated body or vein of ore.
III. Pipe ·noun The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.
IV. Pipe ·noun The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.
V. Pipe ·vt To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle.
VI. Pipe ·vt To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.
VII. Pipe ·vi To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music.
VIII. Pipe ·vi To become hollow in the process of solodifying;
— said of an ingot, as of steel.
IX. Pipe ·noun A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.
X. Pipe ·vi To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to Whistle.
XI. Pipe ·noun A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.
XII. Pipe ·noun A small bowl with a hollow steam, — used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.
XIII. Pipe ·vi To call, convey orders, ·etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.
XIV. Pipe ·noun A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains.
XV. Pipe ·vt To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, ·etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.
XVI. Pipe ·noun Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, ·etc.
XVII. Pipe ·noun A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king;
— so called because put together like a pipe.
XVIII. Pipe ·noun A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an Organ.