PASTY

a. n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness. "A pasty complexion." G. Eliot.

2.
n.

A pie consisting usually of meat wholly surrounded with a crust made of a sheet of paste, and often baked without a dish; a meat pie. "If ye pinch me like a pasty." Shak. "Apple pasties." Dickens. A large pasty baked in a pewter platter. Sir W. Scott.


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