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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



... pie, and the bread and butter," says the professor, in great wrath. "And let me tell you, Hardinge, that there are occasions when one's high spirits can degenerate into ...
— A Little Rebel - A Novel • Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
... un lis, Qui chantoit a voix de seraine; Berte au grant pie Bietris, Allis; Haremburgis qui tint le Maine, Et Jehanne, la bonne Lorraine, Qu'Englois brulerent a Rouan; Ou sont elles, Vierge souvraine? Mais ou sont ...
— Avril - Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance • H. Belloc
... the carcass of the deer an' found a lion sittin' up in the tree, feedin' for all he was worth. Pie jumped out an' ran up the hollow an' over the rim. So I rustled back for you fellows. Lively now, we'll ...
— Tales of lonely trails • Zane Grey
... into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf to make an apple-pie, and at the same time a great she-bear coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What, no soap?' so he died. She imprudently married the barber, and there were present the Pickaninnies, the Joblilies, the Gayrulies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself with the little round ...
— A Nonsense Anthology • Collected by Carolyn Wells
... sup in her own apartment and go early to bed; and Debby might as soon have proposed to walk up the Great Pyramid as to make her first appearance without that sage matron to mount guard over her; so she resigned herself to pie and patience, and fell asleep, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, August, 1863, No. 70 - A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics • Various


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