pipeweed

Noun

pipeweed (uncountable)

1. Tobacco prepared for smoking in a pipe; also, the leaves of herbs or other plants prepared for such use.
   • The ſtories told by one and another of theſe adventurers, had made a deep impreſſion on the mind of VValter Pipevveed, one of John [Bull]'s domeſtics, a fellovv of a roving and projecting diſpoſition, and vvho had learned the art of ſurveying.[1792, [Jeremy Belknap], “Letter I. Original State of the Forest.—The Adventures of Walter Pipeweed, and Cecilius Peterson.”, in The Foresters, an American Tale: […], Boston, Mass.: […] I. Thomas and...
   • He produced a small leather bag full of tobacco. 'We have heaps of it, […] It was Pippin who found two small barrels, washed up out of some cellar or store-house, I suppose. When we opened them, we found they were filled with this: as fine a pipe-weed as you could wish for, and quite unspoilt.'1954 November 11, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “Flotsam and Jetsam”, in The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings, 2nd edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company...
2. Any of a number of plants having thin and straight stems resembling pipes, often hollow or lacking branches.
   • Equisetaceæ rivalled "the mast of some great ammiral," in localities where they dwarfed representatives, the horse-tail and pipe-weed of our bogs, stand only a few inches high.1837 January, James Hamilton, “Buckland’s Bridgewater Treatise [review of Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology (1836) by William Buckland]”, in Works of the Late Rev....
   1. (specifically) The common horsetail or field horsetail (Equisetum arvense).
   2. (US, specifically) The desert trumpet (Eriogonum inflatum) which has a straight stem with a swollen portion; formerly some Native American tribes in the Las Vegas Valley area turned such stems into pipes for smoking by removing the stem at the base and cutting the swollen portion in half to serve as a bowl.
3. (obsolete) The redrattle (Pedicularis flammea), a parasitic plant having hollow stems.
   • Fistulária […] Pipe-vveed; ſo called becauſe its ſtalk is hollovv.1797, W[illiam] Turton, “Fistulária”, in A Medical Glossary: […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 332
4. (obsolete) A type of seaweed with tubelike fronds; especially the sea lettuce (Ulva intestinalis).
   • U. diaphana. Transparent Ulva—Pipe-weed. Occasionally cast up on the beach at Seaton. Some authors call this substance, Alcyonium gelatinosum, and others Alcyonium diaphanum. It has much the appearance of an animal production.1829, John Brewster, “Appendix II. On the Natural History of the Vicinity.”, in The Parochial History and Antiquities of Stockton-upon-Tees; […], 2nd edition, Stockton-upon-Tees, County Durham: […]...
   • The larva [of Gyrinus] is not well known, and not often met with by collectors. I have taken examples in the River Ant, not far from North Walsham. […] Both were found in pipe-weed (Entermorpha intestinalis), and it may be that this is the usual habitat.1903, Henry Scherren, chapter IV, in A Popular Natural History of the Lower Animals (Invertebrates), London: Religious Tract Society, →OCLC, page 101; quoted in Gordon Dalgliesh, “Notes on the...
5. (obsolete) An unidentified sessile marine invertebrate, probably a soft coral or sponge.
   • Alcyonium, ſeu Fucus nodoſus & ſpongioſus. […] Sea ragged Staff, called by the Fiſhermen Pipe-vveed, or Pudding-vveed. This irregular-ſhaped yellovv ſizy Subſtance, […] is found adhering to moſt kinds of marine Subſtances, on the Coaſt of Kent, near the Iſland of Sheppey particularly; ſo that it...1755, John Ellis, “Of the Alcyonium”, in An Essay towards a Natural History of the Corallines, and Other Marine Productions of the Like Kind, Commonly Found on the Coasts of Great Britain and...