Pip"ing (pīp"&ibreve;ng), a. [From
Pipe, v.] 1. Playing on
a musical pipe. "Lowing herds and piping swains."
Swift.
2. Peaceful; favorable to, or characterized
by, the music of the pipe rather than of the drum and fife.
Shak.
3. Emitting a high, shrill sound.
4. Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; --
from the sound of boiling fluids.
Piping crow, Piping crow
shrike, Piping roller (Zoöl.),
any Australian bird of the genus Gymnorhina, esp. G.
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.
Pip"ing, n. 1. A
small cord covered with cloth, -- used as trimming for women's
dresses.
2. Pipes, collectively; as, the piping
of a house.
3. The act of playing on a pipe; the shrill
noted of birds, etc.
4. A piece cut off to be set or planted; a
cutting; also, propagation by cuttings.
