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Webster 1913 Edition


Pandean pipes

Pan-de′an pipes

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Noun.
pl.
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A primitive wind instrument, consisting of a series of short hollow reeds or pipes, graduated in length by the musical scale, and fastened together side by side; a syrinx; a mouth organ; – said to have been invented by the god Pan. Called also
pipes of Pan
,
Pan’s pipes
and
Panpipes
.