Pip \Pip\, n. [Formerly pippin, pepin. Cf. Pippin.]
(Bot.)
A seed, as of an apple or orange.
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Pip \Pip\, n. [Perh. for pick, F. pique a spade at cards, a
pike. Cf. Pique.]
One of the conventional figures or ``spots'' on playing
cards, dominoes, etc. --Addison.
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Pip \Pip\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pipped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Pipping.]
[See Peep.]
To cry or chirp, as a chicken; to peep.
To hear the chick pip and cry in the egg. --Boyle.
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Pip \Pip\, n. [OE. pippe, D. pip, or F. p['e]pie; from LL.
pipita, fr. L. pituita slime, phlegm, rheum, in fowls, the
pip. Cf. Pituite.]
A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness,
discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of
mucus in the mouth, forming a ``scale'' on the tongue. By
some the term pip is restricted to this last symptom, the
disease being called roup by them.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |