PIPE, n. [Eng. fife.]

1. A wind instrument of music, consisting of a long tube of wood or metal; as, a rural pipe. The word, I believe, is not now the proper technical name of any particular instrument, but is applicable to any tubular wind instrument, and it occurs in bagpipe.
2. A long tube or hollow body; applied to the veins and arteries of the body, and to many hollow bodies, particularly such as are used for conductors of water or other fluids.
3. A tube of clay with a bowl at one end; used in smoking tobacco.
4. The organs of voice and respiration; as in windpipe. – Peacham.
5. The key or sound of the voice. – Shak.
6. In England, a roll in the exchequer, or the exchequer itself. Hence, pipe-office is an office in which the clerk of the pipe makes out leases of crown lands, accounts of sherifs, &c.
7. A cask containing two hogsheads or 120 gallons, used for wine; or the quantity which it contains.
8. In mining, a pipe is where the ore runs forward endwise in a hole, and does not sink downward or in a vein. – Encyc.

1. To play on a pipe, fife, flute or other tubular wind instrument of music. – Dryden. Swift. We have piped to you, and ye have not danced. – Matth. xi.
2. To have a shrill sound; to whistle. – Shak.

To play on a wind instrument. 1 Cor. xiv.

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.
   
   
   "Tunable as sylvan pipe." Milton.

   Now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe. Shak.

2. To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music.
   
   

   We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced. Matt. xi. 17.

3. To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.] to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.
   
   

   A robin . . . was piping a few querulous notes. W. Irving.

4. Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc.
5. To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.
6. To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle.
   
   

   As fine a ship's company as was ever piped aloft. Marryat.

7. A small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.
8. To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
   
   
   "Oft in the piping shrouds." Wordsworth.
9. To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.
10. A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.
11. To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel.
12. The key or sound of the voice.
    
    
    [R.] Shak.
13. The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.
    
    

    The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds. Tennyson.

14. The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.
15. An elongated body or vein of ore.
16. 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.
17. A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties] also, the sound of it.
18. 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.