Note: It consists of a leather bag, which receives the air by a tube that is stopped by a valve; and three sounding pipes, into which the air is pressed by the performer. Two of these pipes produce fixed tones, namely, the bass, or key tone, and its fifth, and form together what is called the drone; the third, or chanter, gives the melody.
BAGPIPE
Bag"pipe, v. t.
Defn: To make to look like a bagpipe. To bagpipe the mizzen (Naut.), to lay it aback by bringing the sheet to the mizzen rigging. Totten.
BAGPIPER
Bag"pip`er, n.
Defn: One who plays on a bagpipe; a piper. Shak.
BAGREEF
Bag"reef`, n. Etym: [Bag + reef.] (Naut.)
Defn: The lower reef of fore and aft sails; also, the upper reef of topsails. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
BAGUE
Bague, n. Etym: [F., a ring] (Arch.)
Defn: The annular molding or group of moldings dividing a long shaft or clustered column into two or more parts.
BAGUET; BAGUETTE Ba*guet", Ba*guette", n. Etym: [F. baguette, prop. a rodbacchetta, fr. L. baculum, baculu stick, staff.]