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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



... flanked by four viands mounted on old hot-water chafing-dishes, with the plating worn off. At this particular dinner (afterwards called that of the candidacy) the first course consisted of a pair of ducks with olives, opposite to which was a large pie with forcemeat balls, while a dish of eels "a la tartare" corresponded in like manner with a fricandeau on chicory. The second course had for its central dish a most dignified goose stuffed with chestnuts, a salad of vegetables garnished with ...
— The Lesser Bourgeoisie • Honore de Balzac
... went to the kitchen to bring in the dessert. It was dried apricot pie, and very tasty, ...
— Junior Achievement • William Lee
... came, and there to be put to the most cruel death that could be invented." No doubt Bunyan's description of the trial of the two pilgrims at the fair is an exact picture of the methods of the Court of Pie-powder, or Pied-puldreaux, the tribunal which could be summoned at a moment's notice among the merchants of the fair. The Court of Dusty-Feet certainly ...
— Highways and Byways in Surrey • Eric Parker
... us, and dissolving those ancient customs which make the people to reap public amusement from the Republic. But of those old pantagruelists who allowed God and the king to conduct their own affairs without putting of their finger in the pie oftener than they could help, being content to look on and laugh, there are very few left. They are dying out day by day in such manner that I fear greatly to see these illustrious fragments of the ancient breviary spat upon, staled upon, set at naught, dishonoured, ...
— Droll Stories, Complete - Collected From The Abbeys Of Touraine • Honore de Balzac
... prevent falling. And yet Field never gave you the impression that he was about to topple over. His legs always acted as if they were weary and would like to lean their master up against something. As to what that something might be, he would probably have answered, "Pie." ...
— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson


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