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KJV Dictionary Definition: pipe

pipe

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.

5. The key or sound of the voice.

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 sheriffs, &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 downwards or in a vein.

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

We have piped to you, and ye have not danced. Matt.11.

1. To have a shrill sound; to whistle.

PIPE, v.t. To play on a wind instrument. 1 Cor.14.

piped

PI'PED, a. Formed with a tube; tubular.

piping

PI'PING, ppr. Playing on a pipe.

1. a. Weak; feeble; sickly. Vulgar and not in use in America.

2. Very hot; boiling; from the sound of boiling fluids. Used in vulgar language.