To chirp, whistle, warble, or sing, as a bird.To sound shrilly, as wind.To cry; weep: sometimes with up: as, the children piped up at this.To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or any similar instrument of music.To make a shrill noise, as bees, in the hive before swarming.To utter or emit, as notes, in a shrill or piping voice.To play; produce on a pipe or similar musical instrument.Nautical, to call by means of the boatswain's pipe or whistle: as, to pipe the crew to grog or to prayers.To provide or supply with pipes.To convey by pipe, as water, gas, oil, etc.To furnish with or make into piping, as in dressmaking or upholstery: as, to pipe a border.In hydraul. mining, to direct a stream of water upon, as a bank of gravel, from the hydraulic pipe.n. A simple tubular musical instrument, usually of wood.n. One of the tubes of metal or of wood from which the tones of an organ are produced; an organ-pipe.n. Any hollow or tubular thing or part: as, the pipe of a key.n. A tube of metal, wood, or earthenware serving for various uses, as in the conveyance of water, gas, steam, or smoke: as, a. gas-pipe; a stove-pipe.n. A large round cell in a bee-hive, used by the queen-bee.n. A tube of clay or other material with a bowl at one end, used for smoking tobacco, opium, or other narcotic or medicinal substance. See chibouk, hooka, hubble-bubble, narghile.n. A pipeful; a quantity of tobacco sufficient to fill the bowl of a pipe.n. A wine-measure, usually containing about 105 imperial gallons, or 126 wine-gallons.n. Same as pipe-roll.n. The chief air-passage in breathing and speaking; the windpipe: as, to clear one's pipe.n. The sound of the voice; the voice; also, a whistle or call of a bird.n. Nautical, the whistle used by the boatswain and his mates to call or pipe the men to their various duties; also, the sounding of this instrument.n. plural The bagpipe.n. A spool, as of thread; a roll or quill on which embroidery-silk was wound.n. A dingle or small ravine thrown out from a larger one.n. In mining, an occurrence of ore in an elongated cylindrical or pipe-like mass, such as is characteristic of the so-called pipe-vein. See pipevein.n. One of the curved flutings of a frill or ruff; also, a pin used for piping or fluting.n. In hair-dressing, a cylinder of clay used for curling the peruke.n. In a steam-engine. See induction-pipe.n. In metallurgy, a funnelshaped cavity at the top of an ingot of steel, caused by the escape of occluded gas (largely hydrogen) during the cooling of the metal.n. In the manufacture of black-ash or ballsoda (impure sodium carbonate) by the socalled Le Blanc ball-furnace process, one of very numerous hollow characteristic jets of flame which shoot out from the massed mixture of chalk, small coal, and sodium sulphate during the calcining process, and the beginning of the subsidence of which indicates the completion of the calcination. These jets are also called candles.n. The puffin or sea-parrot, Fratercula arctica.An obsolete form of peep.n. An obsolete form of pip.To wrinkle: said of soft-or loose-grained skins where the grain sometimes wrinkles up in ridges or pipes.To set or solidify, leaving a hollow or hole in the center: said of steel ingots.n. See the extract.