\Pip"ing\ (p[imac]p"[i^]ng), a. [From {Pipe}, v.]
1. Playing on a musical pipe. ``Lowing herds and piping
   swains.'' --Swift.
2. Peaceful; favorable to, or characterized by, the music of
   the pipe rather than of the drum and fife. --Shak.
3. Emitting a high, shrill sound.
4. Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; -- from the sound
   of boiling fluids.
{Piping crow}, {Piping crow shrike}, {Piping roller}
   (Zo["o]l.), any Australian bird of the genus {Gymnorhina},
   esp. {G. tibicen}, which is black and white, and the size
   of a small crow. Called also {caruck}.
{Piping frog} (Zo["o]l.), 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.]
   --Milton.

\Pip"ing\, n.
1. A small cord covered with cloth, -- used as trimming for
   women's dresses.
2. Pipes, collectively; as, the piping of a house.
3. The act of playing on a pipe; the shrill noted of birds,
   etc.
4. A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting; also,
   propagation by cuttings.