Pip
Pip , noun
[Old English pippe, Dutch pip, or French pépie; from Late Latin pipita, from Latin pituita slime, phlegm, rheum, in fowls, the pip. Compare Pituite.]
A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming a “scale” on the tongue. By some the term pip is restricted to this last symptom, the disease being called roup by them.
Pip , noun
[Formerly pippin, pepin. Compare Pippin.]
(Botany) A seed, as of an apple or orange.
Pip , noun
[Perh. for pick, French pique a spade at cards, a pike. Compare Pique.]
One of the conventional figures or “spots” on playing cards, dominoes, etc. — Addison
Pip , intransitive verb
[See Peep.]
To cry or chirp, as a chicken; to peep.
To hear the chick pip and cry in the egg.