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Definition of Piper
1. Noun. Someone who plays the bagpipe.
Generic synonyms: Instrumentalist, Musician, Player
Specialized synonyms: Pipe Major
Derivative terms: Pipe
2. Noun. Type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Piperaceae, Pepper Family, Piperaceae
Member holonyms: Pepper Vine, True Pepper, Black Pepper, Common Pepper, Madagascar Pepper, Pepper, Piper Nigrum, White Pepper, Long Pepper, Piper Longum, Betel, Betel Pepper, Piper Betel, Cubeb, Cubeb Vine, Java Pepper, Piper Cubeba
Definition of Piper
1. n. See Pepper.
2. n. One who plays on a pipe, or the like, esp. on a bagpipe.
Definition of Piper
1. Proper noun. (surname A=An occupational from=Middle English) ¹
2. Proper noun. (surnames female given name) used since the mid-twentieth century, first by the American actress Piper Laurie. ¹
3. Noun. A musician who plays a pipe. ¹
4. Noun. A bagpiper. ¹
5. Noun. A baby pigeon. ¹
6. Noun. A common European gurnard (''Trigla lyra''), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines. ¹
7. Noun. A sea urchin (''Goniocidaris hystrix'') with very long spines, native to the American and European coasts. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Piper
1. one that plays on a tubular musical instrument [n -S]
Medical Definition of Piper
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1. One who plays on a pipe, or the like, especially. On a bagpipe. "The hereditary piper and his sons."
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Piper
Literary usage of Piper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chief Contemporary Dramatists, Second Series: Eighteen Plays from the Recent by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1921)
"piper. Yet you were not afraid? VERONIKA. What is there now to fear? ... I hold
them in my hands; they bide witk piper. Woman, they all are mine. me. ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1877)
"And sure enough, just as the sun was veering round to the west, the piper was
seated at the table of his best parlor with a bottle ,of whiskey and glasses, ..."
3. The English Poets by Thomas Humphry Ward, Matthew Arnold (1918)
"piper, piper, play your best! Melt the sun into your tune! ... piper—softly; soft
and low; Pipe of love in mellow notes, Till the tears begin to flow, ..."
4. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"But why the piper piped a tune so keenly strange and sweet, ... PAYING THE piper
The Bookman. By kind permission of Dodd, Mead and Company. ..."
5. A Handy Book of Curious Information: Comprising Strange Happenings in the by William Shepard Walsh (1913)
"The street through which the piper passed is called Bungen- Strasse, or Drum
Street, from the Incus a non principle,—no music nor drum is allowed to be ..."
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