piper

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. One who plays the bagpipe.
2. n. One who plays on a pipe.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. One who or that which pipes; one who plays on a pipe. In the following quotation from Chaucer the word is used to personify the box-tree, as furnishing the material from which pipes or musical instruments were made.
2. n. Specifically.
3. n. In ornithology:
4. n. A sandpiper or sandpeep; a bird of the genus Tringa or some related genus, as Ereunetes. See cuts under Ereunetes, sandpiper, and stint.
5. n. A young squab; a newly hatched pigeon.
6. n. In ichthyology:
7. n. The most general English name of the lyre-gurnard, Trigla lyra.
8. n. An exocœtoid fish, Hemirhamphus intermedius, with an elongate body and ensiform lower jaw, common in New Zealand, and esteemed for its flesh as well as for the sport it gives. Also called garfish, ihi, and halfbeak.
9. n. A kind of caddis-worm. See the quotation.
10. n. The piper-urchin.
11. n. In apiculture, an after-swarm having a virgin queen. Phin, Dict.
12. n. See the quotation.
13. n. A genus of plants, the type of order Piperaceæ and tribe Prpereæ, characterized by the two to six stamens with distinct anther-cells, and an obtuse or slightly beaked ovary crowned with from two to five stigmas, becoming in fruit a small berry. There are over 650 species, widely dispersed through the tropics. They are most commonly jointed shrubby climbers, rarely trees or tall herbs, bearing alternate entire leaves with several or many conspicuous nerves, and large and often wing-like stipules. The flowers are densely packed together in cylindrical stalked spikes (or in a few species in racemes) —at first terminal, soon becoming opposite the leaves (as in Phytolacca), pendulous and slender, with diœeious or perfect flowers without calyx or corolla, each with a shield-shaped protecting bract. The Piper Æthiopicum of the shops is now placed in the genus Xylopia. See pepper, Chavica, and oil of cubebs (under oil); and for important species, see betel, coltsfoot (and lizard-tail), cubeb, kava, kawa-kawa, and matica.
14. n. In ichthyology: Same as balao.
15. n. In Newfoundland, a haddock which is only half dried.

Wiktionary

1. n. A musician who plays a pipe.
2. n. A bagpiper.
3. n. A baby pigeon.
4. n. A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.
5. n. A sea urchin (Goniocidaris hystrix) with very long spines, native to the American and European coasts.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. See pepper.
2. n. (Mus.) One who plays on a pipe, or the like, esp. on a bagpipe.
3. n. A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.
4. n. A sea urchin (Goniocidaris hystrix) having very long spines, native of both the American and European coasts.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. someone who plays the bagpipe
2. n. type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs