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   pipe of peace
         n 1: a highly decorated ceremonial pipe of Amerindians; smoked
               on ceremonial occasions (especially as a token of peace)
               [syn: {calumet}, {peace pipe}, {pipe of peace}]

English Dictionary: pipefish by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pipe vise
n
  1. a clamp for holding pipe that is to be cut or threaded
    Synonym(s): pipe vise, pipe clamp
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pipefish
n
  1. fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates
    Synonym(s): pipefish, needlefish
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pop-up book
n
  1. a book (usually for children) that contains one or more pages such that a three-dimensional structure rises up when a page is opened
    Synonym(s): pop-up book, pop-up
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)
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