of pipe-playing on a musical pipe.-peaceful; favorable to, or characterized by, the music of the pipe rather than of the drum and fife.-emitting a high, shrill sound.-simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; -- from the sound of boiling fluids.-a small cord covered with cloth, -- used as trimming for women's dresses.-pipes, collectively; as, the piping of a house.-the act of playing on a pipe; the shrill noted of birds, etc.-a piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting; also, propagation by cuttings.