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Pie   /paɪ/   Listen
noun
Pie  n.  
1.
An article of food consisting of paste baked with something in it or under it; as, chicken pie; venison pie; mince pie; apple pie; pumpkin pie.
2.
See Camp, n., 5. (Prov. Eng.)
Pie crust, the paste of a pie.


Pie  n.  
1.
(Zool.)
(a)
A magpie.
(b)
Any other species of the genus Pica, and of several allied genera. (Written also pye)
2.
(R. C. Ch.) The service book.
3.
(Pritn.) Type confusedly mixed. See Pi.
By cock and pie, an adjuration equivalent to "by God and the service book."
Tree pie (Zool.), any Asiatic bird of the genus Dendrocitta, allied to the magpie.
Wood pie. (Zool.) See French pie, under French.


verb
Pie  v. t.  See Pi.





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"Pie" Quotes from Famous Books



... went after her and took her down to Widow Burt's; when he came back, he said he left Mrs. Burt more quiet, and poor Jim quite happy helping Betsy get dinner ready for herself and him. Calanthy had put a dried apple pie in the basket; and when Jim saw that, he sniggered in his simple way, and ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various
... great scold, and fault-finder, and often took me to task about my short-comings; but herein, he was not alone; for every one had a finger, or a thumb, and sometimes both hands, in my unfortunate pie. ...
— Redburn. His First Voyage • Herman Melville
... Lilio, Pauliae Scholae olim Praeceptori primario, & Agnetae Conjugi, in sacratissimo hujus Templi Coemiterio hinc a tergo nunc destructo consepultis; Georgius Lilius, hujus Ecclesiae Canonicus, Parentum Memoriae pie consulens, Tabellam hanc ab amicis conservatam, ...
— The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) • William Winstanley
... look like a mince pie of cogs here, but when it is put into shape it will be a simple little arrangement. This is a recording instrument which combines the phonograph and the dictagraph. One purpose—the most practical, ...
— Traffic in Souls - A Novel of Crime and Its Cure • Eustace Hale Ball
... the slight bend at his knees and the leaning forward of his head to have no very great care how much further he might go. He was in the clothes of an English tourist, which looked odd in such a place, as, for that matter, they do anywhere. He had upon his head a pork-pie hat which was of the same colour and texture as his clothes, a speckly brown. He carried a thick stick. He was a man over fifty years of age; his face was rather hollow and worn; his eyes were very simple and pale; he was bearded with a weak beard, ...
— On Something • H. Belloc


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