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 "bird" in its first intention is an animal that has feathers, in its second intention a partridge, and I do not perceive how we can assign a first intention to "pipe" quite in this manner. Second intentions, however, are sufficiently numerous, as will be seen when we consider that an organist, a plumber, and a pastoral poet use the term each in a peculiar technical sense, plainly constituting second intention. But shall we not agree, supposing an organist to be conversing with a plumber, or a plumber with a pastoral poet, that in speaking to one another they would use the term "pipe" with the meaning of an instrument used in smoking? And is not this, then, the logical first intention of the word pipe? Such, at all events, it appears to me.

Thus, then, I have proved that when we pronounce the word "pipe" in common language we imply remotely and etymologically "something that whistles," and directly and logically "an instrument used in smoking." How, then, can the Cœlosphaerics contend that the bowl is