pipe (subs.) Copy link Outline I. MusicalII. A tube1. tŭbus2. cănālis, is, m., less freq. f. (a conduit p., or for draining)III. For smokingIV. Measure of wine • pipe (subs.): I. Musical: fistŭla: Virg.: Hor.: used of a pitch-p., f. eburneola (of ivory), Cic. de Or. 3, 60, 225. (Other poet. terms are, ăvēna, an oaten p., Virg. E. 1, 1: a reed p., calamus: esp. in pl., to denote a Pan's p., cf. ib. 2, 32, Pan primus calamos cera conjungere plures instituit: hemlock-p., cicuta, ib. 2, 36: Lucr.) II. A tube: 1. tŭbus: earthenware p.s, t. fictiles: Col. 1, 5, init.: Plin. Dimin., tŭbŭlus (not necessarily with dimin. sig.). Varr. R. R. 1, 8, med. (t. fictiles): Vitr.: Plin. 2. cănālis, is, m., less freq. f. (a conduit p., or for draining): wooden p.s, iligni c., Virg. G. 3, 330: Caes. B. C. 2, 10 (where the word appears to denote a hose for discharging water). Dimin., canaliculus (small p.): Col. III. For smoking: perh. infurnĭbŭlum (used for inhaling fumes medically). Plin. 24, 15, 85 (is nidor per inf. imbibitur inveteratae tussi: al. infundibulum). Or, trājectōrium ("quod Itali pipa [Anglicé, pipe] vocant," Forcell. s. v.): Plin. Val. (used for the same purpose as preced.). (Fumisugium is barbarous, and tubulus hardly applicable.) Phr.: he occasionally indulged in a p., nicotianae usu interdum se delectavit, Bruder, Spinos. pref. IV. Measure of wine: cūleus or culleus (= about 120 gallons): Cato R. R. 148: Varr.