English Dictionary: pipefish | by the DICT Development Group |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pipe \Pipe\, n. [AS. p[c6]pe, probably fr. L. pipare, pipire, to chirp; of imitative origin. Cf. {Peep}, {Pibroch}, {Fife}.] 1. 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. [bd]Tunable as sylvan pipe.[b8] --Milton. Now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe. --Shak. 2. Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc. 3. A small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances. 4. A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions. 5. The key or sound of the voice. [R.] --Shak. 6. The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird. The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds. --Tennyson. 7. pl. The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow. 8. (Mining) An elongated body or vein of ore. 9. 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. --Mozley & W. 10. (Naut.) A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it. 11. [Cf. F. pipe, fr. pipe a wind instrument, a tube, fr. L. pipare to chirp. See Etymol. above.] A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains. {Pipe fitter}, one who fits pipes together, or applies pipes, as to an engine or a building. {Pipe fitting}, a piece, as a coupling, an elbow, a valve, etc., used for connecting lengths of pipe or as accessory to a pipe. {Pipe office}, an ancient office in the Court of Exchequer, in which the clerk of the pipe made out leases of crown lands, accounts of cheriffs, etc. [Eng.] {Pipe tree} (Bot.), the lilac and the mock orange; -- so called because their were formerly used to make pipe stems; -- called also {pipe privet}. {Pipe wrench}, [or] {Pipetongs}, a jawed tool for gripping a pipe, in turning or holding it. {To smoke the pipe of peace}, to smoke from the same pipe in token of amity or preparatory to making a treaty of peace, -- a custom of the American Indians. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pipefish \Pipe"fish`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any lophobranch fish of the genus {Siphostoma}, or {Syngnathus}, and allied genera, having a long and very slender angular body, covered with bony plates. The mouth is small, at the end of a long, tubular snout. The male has a pouch on his belly, in which the incubation of the eggs takes place. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Pippa Passes, KY (city, FIPS 61374) Location: 37.33406 N, 82.87435 W Population (1990): 195 (84 housing units) Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) |