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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



... dreams. As I rode along I imagined myself in that great arena and sitting where I could see the flash of its swords and hear the thunder of Homeric voices. That is the way I thought of it. Well, those were no weak, piping times of peace, my brothers. They were times of battle and as I rode through that peaceful summer afternoon I mapped my way to the fighting line. I knew that I should enjoy the practise of the law but I had begun to feel ...
— The Light in the Clearing • Irving Bacheller
... this apparatus when applied to moderate temperatures lies in the adoption of a closed system of piping of small bore, a certain portion of which is wound into a coil and placed in a furnace situated in any convenient position outside the drying chamber or hot closet. The circulation is thus hermetically sealed ...
— Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition - For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and - Galvanizing • William N. Brown
... a spot on the shore where a ship was being unloaded of its cargo of granite blocks from Syene. Black and brown slaves were dragging them to land. An old blind man was piping a dismal tune on a small reed flute to encourage them in their work, while two men of fairer hue, whose burden had been too heavy for them, had let the end of the column they were carrying sink on the ground, and were being mercilessly flogged ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... but now the war-drum rumbles from afar, the brazen trumpet brays its thrilling note, and the rude clash of hostile arms speaks fearful prophecies of coming troubles. The gallant warrior starts from soft repose—from golden visions and voluptuous ease; where, in the dulcet "piping time of peace," he sought sweet solace after all his toils. No more in Beauty's siren lap reclined he weaves fair garlands for his lady's brows; no more entwines with flowers his shining sword nor through the livelong lazy summer's day chants forth his love-sick soul in madrigals. ...
— Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete • Washington Irving
... for, while I linger here, Piping these dainty ditties for your ear, To win that dearer honey for my own, Daylong my Thestylis doth sit alone, Weeping, mayhap, because the gods have given Song but not sheep—the rarer gift of heaven; And little Phyllis ...
— English Poems • Richard Le Gallienne


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