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   Piping , a. [From Pipe, v.]
   Playing on a musical pipe. “Lowing herds and piping swains.” 
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   Peaceful; favorable to, or characterized by, the music of the pipe rather than of the drum and fife.
   Shak.
   
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   Emitting a high, shrill sound.
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   Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; -- from the sound of boiling fluids.
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   Piping crow, Piping crow shrike, Piping roller (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), 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.]
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