piping

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: pip=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

piping, a. [From Pipe, v.].

•  Playing on a musical pipe.  Swift.  [1913 Webster]
•  Peaceful; favorable to, or characterized by, the music of the pipe rather than of the drum and fife.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  Emitting a high, shrill sound.  [1913 Webster]
•  Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; -- from the sound of boiling fluids.  [1913 Webster]

Piping crow, Piping crow shrike, Piping roller (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), 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.

piping, n. 

•  A small cord covered with cloth, -- used as trimming for women's dresses.  [1913 Webster]
•  Pipes, collectively; as, the piping of a house.  [1913 Webster]
•  The act of playing on a pipe; the shrill noted of birds, etc.  [1913 Webster]
•  A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting; also, propagation by cuttings.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

piping, n. & adj.
--n.
1 the act or an instance of piping, esp. whistling or singing.
2 a thin pipelike fold used to edge hems or frills on clothing, seams on upholstery, etc.
3 ornamental lines of icing, cream, potato, etc. on a cake or other dish.
4 lengths of pipe, or a system of pipes, esp. in domestic use.
--adj. (of a noise) high; whistling.

Idiom

piping hot very or suitably hot (esp. as required of food, water, etc.).

THESAURUS

piping

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