Piping

·v Playing on a musical pipe.

II. Piping ·v Emitting a high, shrill sound.

III. Piping ·noun Pipes, collectively; as, the piping of a house.

IV. Piping ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Pipe.

V. Piping ·noun The act of playing on a pipe; the shrill noted of birds, ·etc.

VI. Piping ·noun A small cord covered with cloth, — used as trimming for women's dresses.

VII. Piping ·v Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing;

— from the sound of boiling fluids.

VIII. Piping ·noun A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting; also, propagation by cuttings.

IX. Piping ·v Peaceful; favorable to, or characterized by, the music of the pipe rather than of the drum and fife.