Pipe

an implement for smoking tobacco. It consists essentially of a bowl, in which the tobacco is burned, and a stem, through which the smoke is drawn. The clay pipe and the corncob pipe are well known popular varieties. Immense porcelain pipes. often highly decorated, are favorites with the Germans. The oriental hooka is the largest pipe of all. The bowl rests in a reservoir filled with water, through which the smoke is drawn and cooled before reaching the mouth. According to the last census the manufacture of pipes and smokers' implements in the United States amounts to about $3,000,000 a year. There are large importations, also, of smokers' articles. See Meerschaum; Briar Root; Pipestone