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pip·er    Audio Help   [pahy-per] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a person who plays on a pipe.
2.a bagpiper.
3.pay the piper,
a.to pay the cost of something.
b.to bear the unfavorable consequences of one's actions or pleasures: Someday he'll have to pay the piper for all that gambling.

[Origin: bef. 1000; ME; OE pīpere. See pipe1, -er1]
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pip·er    Audio Help   (pī'pər)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. One who plays the bagpipe.
  2. One who plays on a pipe.

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piper

noun
1. someone who plays the bagpipe 
2. type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs 

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piper

see call the tune (pay the piper).


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ˈpiper noun
a person who plays a pipe or pipes, especially the bagpipes
Arabic: زَمّار
Chinese (Simplified): 吹奏手
Chinese (Traditional): 吹奏手
Czech: pištec, dudák
Danish: fløjtespiller; sækkepibespiller
Dutch: piper, doedelzakspeler
Estonian: vilemängija, torupillimängija
Finnish: huilunsoittaja, säkkipillinsoittaja
French: joueur, *-euse de cornemuse
German: der, *die Flötist(in)
Greek: αυλητής
Hungarian: dudás
Icelandic: sekkjapípuleikar
Indonesian: peniup seruling
Italian: pifferaio, suonatore, *suonatrice di cornamusa*
Japanese: 笛を吹く人
Korean: 피리 부는 사람, 풍적수
Latvian: stabulētājs; dūdinieks
Lithuanian: dūdininkas
Norwegian: sekkepipespiller
Polish: dudziarz
Portuguese (Brazil): tocador de instrumento de sopro
Portuguese (Portugal): gaiteiro
Romanian: persoană care cântă la fluier, flautist
Russian: волынщик; дудочник
Slovak: kto hrá na píšťale; gajdoš
Slovenian: piskač
Spanish: flautista; gaitero; músico de un instrumento de viento
Swedish: pipblåsare, säckpipsblåsare
Turkish: kavalcı; gaydacı
See also: pipeline, piping, pipe, pipe dream, pipes, piping hot

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Main Entry: Pi·per
Pronunciation: 'pI-p&r, 'pip-&r
Function: noun
: a very large genus (the type of the family Piperaceae) of tropical plantsthat comprise the true peppers, are mostly climbing jointed shrubs with entire stipulate leaves and pulpy fruit, and include the betel (P. betle), kava (P. methysticum), and matico (P.angustifolium) and the sources of cubebs (from P. cubeba) and black and white pepper (from P. nigrum)

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Piper City, IL (village, FIPS 60079) Location: 40.75571 N, 88.18765 W
Population (1990): 760 (353 housing units)
Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 60959

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Piper

Ma*ti"co\, n. (Bot.) A Peruvian plant (Piper, or Artanthe, elongatum), allied to the pepper, the leaves of which are used as a styptic and astringent.

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Piper

Pep"per\, n. [OE. peper, AS. pipor, L. piper, fr. Gr. ?, ?, akin to Skr. pippala, pippali.]

1. A well-known, pungently aromatic condiment, the dried berry, either whole or powdered, of the Piper nigrum.

Note: Common, or black, pepper is made from the whole berry, dried just before maturity; white pepper is made from the ripe berry after the outer skin has been removed by maceration and friction. It has less of the peculiar properties of the plant than the black pepper. Pepper is used in medicine as a carminative stimulant.

2. (Bot.) The plant which yields pepper, an East Indian woody climber (Piper nigrum), with ovate leaves and apetalous flowers in spikes opposite the leaves. The berries are red when ripe. Also, by extension, any one of the several hundred species of the genus Piper, widely dispersed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the earth.

3. Any plant of the genus Capsicum, and its fruit; red pepper; as, the bell pepper.

Note: The term pepper has been extended to various other fruits and plants, more or less closely resembling the true pepper, esp. to the common varieties of Capsicum. See Capsicum, and the Phrases, below.

African pepper, the Guinea pepper. See under Guinea.

Cayenne pepper. See under Cayenne.

Chinese pepper, the spicy berries of the Xanthoxylum piperitum, a species of prickly ash found in China and Japan.

Guinea pepper. See under Guinea, and Capsicum.

Jamaica pepper. See Allspice.

Long pepper. (a) The spike of berries of Piper longum, an East Indian shrub. (b) The root of Piper, or Macropiper, methysticum. See Kava.

Malaguetta, or Meleguetta, pepper, the aromatic seeds of the Amomum Melegueta, an African plant of the Ginger family. They are sometimes used to flavor beer, etc., under the name of grains of Paradise.

Red pepper. See Capsicum.

Sweet pepper bush (Bot.), an American shrub (Clethra alnifolia), with racemes of fragrant white flowers; -- called also white alder.

Pepper box or caster, a small box or bottle, with a perforated lid, used for sprinkling ground pepper on food, etc.

Pepper corn. See in the Vocabulary.

Pepper elder (Bot.), a West Indian name of several plants of the Pepper family, species of Piper and Peperomia.

Pepper moth (Zo["o]l.), a European moth (Biston betularia) having white wings covered with small black specks.

Pepper pot, a mucilaginous soup or stew of vegetables and cassareep, much esteemed in the West Indies.

Pepper root. (Bot.). See Coralwort.

pepper sauce, a condiment for the table, made of small red peppers steeped in vinegar.

Pepper tree (Bot.), an aromatic tree (Drimys axillaris) of the Magnolia family, common in New Zealand. See Peruvian mastic tree, under Mastic.

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