English Dictionary: pipe down | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Peptone \Pep"tone\, n. [Gr. [?] cooked.] (Physiol. Chem.) (a) The soluble and diffusible substance or substances into which albuminous portions of the food are transformed by the action of the gastric and pancreatic juices. Peptones are also formed from albuminous matter by the action of boiling water and boiling dilute acids. (b) Collectively, in a broader sense, all the products resulting from the solution of albuminous matter in either gastric or pancreatic juice. In this case, however, intermediate products (albumose bodies), such as antialbumose, hemialbumose, etc., are mixed with the true peptones. Also termed albuminose. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Peptonize \Pep"to*nize\, v. t. (Physiol.) To convert into peptone; to digest or dissolve by means of a proteolytic ferment; as, peptonized food. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Peptonoid \Pep"to*noid\, n. [Peptone + -oid.] (Physiol. Chem.) A substance related to peptone. | |
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]: | |
Pivot \Piv"ot\, n. [F.; prob. akin to It. piva pipe, F. pipe. See {Pipe}.] 1. A fixed pin or short axis, on the end of which a wheel or other body turns. 2. The end of a shaft or arbor which rests and turns in a support; as, the pivot of an arbor in a watch. 3. Hence, figuratively: A turning point or condition; that on which important results depend; as, the pivot of an enterprise. 4. (Mil.) The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place whike the company or line moves around him in wheeling; -- called also {pivot man}. {Pivot bridge}, a form of drawbridge in which one span, called the pivot span, turns about a central vertical axis. {Pivot gun}, a gun mounted on a pivot or revolving carriage, so as to turn in any direction. {Pivot tooth} (Dentistry), an artificial crown attached to the root of a natural tooth by a pin or peg. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pivot \Piv"ot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pivoted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pivoting}.] To place on a pivot. --Clarke. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Popedom \Pope"dom\, n. [AS. p[be]ped[d3]m.] 1. The place, office, or dignity of the pope; papal dignity. --Shak. 2. The jurisdiction of the pope. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Poupeton \Pou"pe*ton\, n. [See {Puppet}.] A puppet, or little baby. [Obs.] --Palsgrave. | |
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Pupation \Pu*pa"tion\, n. (Zo[94]l.) the act of becoming a pupa. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
2. A similar figure moved by the hand or by a wire in a mock drama; a marionette; a wooden actor in a play. At the pipes of some carved organ move, The gilded puppets dance. --Pope. 3. One controlled in his action by the will of another; a tool; -- so used in contempt. --Sir W. Scott. 4. (Mach.) The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe. {Puppet master}. Same as {Puppetman}. {Puppet play}, a puppet show. {Puppet player}, one who manages the motions of puppets. {Puppet show}, a mock drama performed by puppets moved by wires. {Puppet valve}, a valve in the form of a circular disk, which covers a hole in its seat, and opens by moving bodily away from the seat while remaining parallel with it, -- used in steam engines, pumps, safety valves, etc. Its edge is often beveled, and fits in a conical recess in the seat when the valve is closed. See the valves shown in Illusts. of {Plunger pump}, and {Safety valve}, under {Plunger}, and {Safety}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Puppetman \Pup"pet*man\, n. A master of a puppet show. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
pop-down menu {pull-down menu} |