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A supply of water; specifically, water collected, as in reservoirs, and conveyed, as by pipes, for use in a city, mill, or the like.
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A stop on the organ, containing several ranks of pipes which reenforce some of the high harmonics of the ground tone, and make the sound more brilliant.
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The mock orange; -- popularly so called because its stems were formerly used as pipestems.
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Having three pipes.
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A wind instrument made of reeds tied together; -- called also pandean pipes.
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To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run.
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An hydraulic apparatus, or a system of works or fixtures, by which a supply of water is furnished for useful or ornamental purposes, including dams, sluices, pumps, aqueducts, distributing pipes, fountains, etc.; -- used chiefly in the plural.
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A short right-angled pipe fitting, used in connecting two pipes at right angles.
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The lead or iron pipes, and other apparatus, used in conveying water, sewage, etc., in a building.
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A term supposed to mean, perforated wind instruments of music, as pipes or flutes.
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A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite.
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A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, or the like, as the elastic pipe of a tender connecting it with the feed pipe of a locomotive engine; especially, a pipe fitting for connecting pipes, or pipes and fittings, in such a way as to facilitate disconnection.
v. t.
To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of; as, to voice the pipes of an organ.
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In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of pipes; the register itself; as, the vox humana stop.
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The flour of a hard and small-grained wheat made into dough, and forced through small cylinders or pipes till it takes a slender, wormlike form, whence the Italian name. When the paste is made in larger tubes, it is called macaroni.
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A certain measure for liquids, as for wine, equal to two pipes, four hogsheads, or 252 gallons. In different countries, the tun differs in quantity.
a.
Connected with, or serving to connect, three channels or pipes; as, a three-way cock or valve.
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A wind instrument containing numerous pipes of various dimensions and kinds, which are filled with wind from a bellows, and played upon by means of keys similar to those of a piano, and sometimes by foot keys or pedals; -- formerly used in the plural, each pipe being considired an organ.
n.
A fine white claylike mineral, soft, and light enough when in dry masses to float in water. It is a hydrous silicate of magnesia, and is obtained chiefly in Asia Minor. It is manufacturd into tobacco pipes, cigar holders, etc. Also called sepiolite.
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A short piece of pipe used for covering a joint, or forming a joint between the ends of two other pipes.
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