a. [ From Pipe, v. ] 1. Playing on a musical pipe. “Lowing herds and piping swains.” Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Peaceful; favorable to, or characterized by, the music of the pipe rather than of the drum and fife. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Emitting a high, shrill sound. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; -- from the sound of boiling fluids. [ 1913 Webster ]

Piping crow,
Piping crow shrike,
Piping roller (Zool.), any Australian bird of the genus Gymnorhina, esp. Gymnorhina tibicen, which is black and white, and the size of a small crow. Called also caruck. --
Piping frog (Zool.), a small American tree frog (Hyla Pickeringii) which utters a high, shrill note in early spring. --
Piping hot, boiling hot; hissing hot; very hot. [ Colloq. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A small cord covered with cloth, -- used as trimming for women's dresses. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pipes, collectively; as, the piping of a house. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of playing on a pipe; the shrill noted of birds, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting; also, propagation by cuttings. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. pipistrelle, It. pipistrello. ] (Zool.) A small European bat (Vesperugo pipistrellus); -- called also flittermouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ So named from its call note. ] (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to Anthus and allied genera, of the family Motacillidæ. They strongly resemble the true larks in habits, colors, and the great length of the hind claw. They are, therefore, often called titlarks, and pipit larks. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis); the tree pipit, or tree lark (Anthus trivialis); and the rock pipit, or sea lark (Anthus obscurus) are well-known European species. The common American pipit, or brown lark, is Anthus Pensilvanicus. The Western species (Anthus Spraguei) is called the American skylark, on account of its musical powers. [ 1913 Webster ]