pipestems

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• Calumet (pipe) — Peace pipe redirects here. For other uses, see Peace pipe (disambiguation). A Lakota (Sioux) chanunpa pipestem, without the pipe bowl, displayed at the United States Library of Congress A Calumet is a ceremonial smoking pipe used by some Native… …   Wikipedia

• Syringa — Sy*rin ga, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, ?, a shepherd s pipe, tube. Cf. {Syringe}.] (Bot.) (a) A genus of plants; the lilac. (b) The mock orange; popularly so called because its stems were formerly used as pipestems. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Clematis lasiantha — in Mt. Diablo State Park, Contra Costa County, California Scientific classification Kingdom …   Wikipedia

• Peace pipe — A peace pipe, also called a calumet or medicine pipe, is a ceremonial smoking pipe used by many Native American tribes, traditionally as a token of peace.A common material [See Longfellow s Hiawatha] for calumet pipe bowls is red pipestone or… …   Wikipedia

• Walter Van Rensselaer Berry — (July 29, 1859 1927) was an American lawyer, diplomat, Francophile, and friend of several great writers.BiographyBerry was born in Paris, a descendant of the Van Rensselaer family of New York. After attending St. Mark s School and Harvard, he… …   Wikipedia

• albatross — /al beuh traws , tros /, n. 1. any of several large, web footed sea birds of the family Diomedeidae that have the ability to remain aloft for long periods. Cf. wandering albatross. 2. a seemingly inescapable moral or emotional burden, as of guilt …   Universalium

• Arundinaria — ▪ plant genus       genus of grasses (Poaceae) native to Asia and America, characterized by woody, cylindrical stems, persistent leaf sheaths with stiff, rough bristles, and flower spikelets. There are about 300 species of these bamboos and canes …   Universalium

• amber — [am′bər] n. [ME aumbre, amber, ambergris < OFr ambre < Ar ʼ anbar, ambergris] 1. a yellow or brownish yellow translucent fossil resin found as along seacoasts and used in jewelry, pipestems, etc.: it is hard, easily polished, and quickly… …   English World dictionary

• piano legs — noun plural : fat or disproportionately thick legs some were bowlegged and some were knock kneed, some had pipestems and some piano legs Esther Forbes …   Useful english dictionary

• am|ber — «AM buhr», noun, adjective. –n. 1. a hard yellow or yellowish brown gum, the resin of fossil pine trees. Amber is translucent and easily polished and is used for jewelry and pipestems. It develops a negative charge of static electricity when… …   Useful english dictionary

• pipe|stem — «PYP STEHM», noun. 1. the rigid tube (stem) of a tobacco pipe, through which the smoke is drawn from the bowl by sucking. 2. Figurative. something thin, such as a leg or arm. 3. Usually, pipestems. = pipestem trousers. (Cf. ↑pipestem trousers) …   Useful english dictionary