Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pip"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pip \Pip\, n. [Formerly pippin, pepin. Cf. {Pippin}.] (Bot.)
A seed, as of an apple or orange.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
pip
n 1: a disease of poultry
2: a minor nonspecific ailment
3: a mark on a playing card (shape depending on the suit) [syn:
{spot}]
4: a radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a
reflecting surface [syn: {blip}, {radar target}]
v 1: kill by firing a missile [syn: {shoot}]
2: hit with a missile from a weapon [syn: {shoot}, {hit}]
3: colloquial usage; defeat thoroughly; "He mopped up the floor
with his opponents" [syn: {worst}, {mop up}, {whip}, {rack
up}]
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