Piping
Piping (pīp"ing) , adjective
[From Pipe, v.]
1.
Playing on a musical pipe.
Lowing herds and piping swains.
2.
Peaceful; favorable to, or characterized by, the music of the pipe rather than of the drum and fife. — Shakespeare
3.
Emitting a high, shrill sound.
4.
Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; -- from the sound of boiling fluids.
Collocations (3)
Piping crow or Piping crow shrike or Piping roller (Zoology) , 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 (Zoology) , a small American tree frog (Hyla Pickeringii) which utters a high, shrill note in early spring.
Piping hot , boiling hot; hissing hot; very hot. [Colloquial] — Milton
Piping , noun
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.