piping

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A system of pipes, such as those used in plumbing.
2. n. Music The act of playing on a pipe.
3. n. Music The music produced by a pipe when played.
4. n. A shrill, high-pitched sound.
5. n. A narrow tube of fabric, sometimes enclosing a cord, used for trimming seams and edges, as of slipcovers.
6. n. A tubular ribbon of icing on a pastry.
7. adj. Music Playing on a pipe.
8. adj. Having a high-pitched sound: the piping voices of children.
9. adj. Tranquil; peaceful: "in this weak piping time of peace” ( Shakespeare).
10. idiom. piping hot Very hot: piping hot biscuits.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The act of one who pipes.
2. n. The sound of playing on a pipe or as on a pipe; the music of pipes.
3. n. Weeping; crying.
4. n. A system of pipes; pipes, as for gas, water, oil, etc., collectively.
5. n. Fluting.
6. n. A kind of covered cord used for trimming dresses, especially along seams.
7. n. In harness, leather guards or shields encompassing a trace-chain.
8. n. A cord-like ornament of icing or frosting on the top of a cake.
9. n. In jewelry, a support, usually of a baser metal, attached behind a surface of precious metal which is too thin to preserve its shape unsupported.
10. n. In horticulture, a mode of propagating herbaceous plants having jointed stems, such as pinks, by taking slips or cuttings consisting of two joints, and planting them in moist sand under glass; also, one of these cuttings.
11. n. A way of dressing the hair by curling it around little pins of wood or baked clay called bilboquets.
12. n. In metallurgy See pipe, 20.
13. Playing on a pipe.
14. Having a shrill, whistling sound.
15. In zoology, having or habitually uttering a shrill, whistling cry: said especially of birds.
16. Accompanied by the music of the peaceful pipe, rather than that of the martial trump or fife.
17. Simmering; boiling.
18. The noise made by bees preparatory to swarming.

Wiktionary

1. v. present participle of pipe.
2. n. The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
3. n. The sound of musical pipes.
4. n. An act of making music or noise with pipes.
5. n. A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
6. n. An ornamentation on pastry edges and seams.
7. n. An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
8. n. Piped icing on a cake.
9. n. botany A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.
10. n. botany propagation by cuttings
11. adj. High-pitched.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Playing on a musical pipe.
2. adj. Peaceful; favorable to, or characterized by, the music of the pipe rather than of the drum and fife.
3. adj. Emitting a high, shrill sound.
4. adj. Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; -- from the sound of boiling fluids.
5. n. A small cord covered with cloth, -- used as trimming for women's dresses.
6. n. Pipes, collectively.
7. n. The act of playing on a pipe; the shrill noted of birds, etc.
8. n. A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting; also, propagation by cuttings.

WordNet 3.0

1. adv. (used of heat) extremely
2. n. playing a pipe or the bagpipes
3. n. a thin strip of covered cord used to edge hems
4. n. a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.