piper

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun One who plays the bagpipe.
• noun One who plays on a pipe.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A genus of plants, the type of the order Piperaceæ and tribe Prpereæ, characterized by the two to six stamens with distinct anther-cells, and an obtuse or slightly beaked ovary crowned with from two to five stigmas, becoming in fruit a small berry.
• noun In ichthyology: Same as balao.
• noun In Newfoundland, a haddock which is only half dried.
• noun One who or that which pipes; one who plays on a pipe.
• noun Specifically
• noun In ornithology:
• noun A sandpiper or sandpeep; a bird of the genus Tringa or some related genus, as Ereunetes. See cuts under Ereunetes, sandpiper, and stint.
• noun A young squab; a newly hatched pigeon.
• noun In ichthyology:
• noun The most general English name of the lyre-gurnard, Trigla lyra.
• noun An exocœtoid fish, Hemirhamphus intermedius, with an elongate body and ensiform lower jaw, common in New Zealand, and esteemed for its flesh as well as for the sport it gives. Also called garfish, ihi, and halfbeak.
• noun A kind of caddis-worm. See the quotation.
• noun The piper-urchin.
• noun In apiculture, an after-swarm having a virgin queen. Phin, Dict.
• noun See the quotation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Mus.) One who plays on a pipe, or the like, esp. on a bagpipe.
• noun A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.
• noun A sea urchin (Goniocidaris hystrix) having very long spines, native of both the American and European coasts.
• noun to bear the cost, expense, or trouble.
• noun See pepper.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A musician who plays a pipe.
• noun A bagpiper.
• noun A baby pigeon.
• noun A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.
• noun A sea urchin (Goniocidaris hystrix) with very long spines, native to the American and European coasts.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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