Piping /(pīp"ĭng)/

Pip·ing

Piping

a.
  1. Playing on a musical pipe.
  2. Peaceful; favorable to, or characterized by, the music of the pipe rather than of the drum and fife.
  3. Emitting a high, shrill sound.
  4. Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; -- from the sound of boiling fluids.

Phrases & Compounds
Piping crow
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
a small American tree frog (Hyla Pickeringii) which utters a high, shrill note in early spring.
Piping hot
boiling hot; hissing hot; very hot.

Piping

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.