PIE

n. v.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

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.
n.

See Camp, n., 5. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. Pie crust, the paste of a pie.

3.
n.

A magpie.

4.
n.

Any other species of the genus Pica, and of several allied genera. [Written also pye.]

5.
n.

The service book.

6.
n.

Type confusedly mixed. See Pi. By cock and pie, an adjuration equivalent to "by God and the service book." Shak. -- Tree pie (Zoöl.), any Asiatic bird of the genus Dendrocitta, allied to the magpie. -- Wood pie. (Zoöl.) See French pie, under French.

7.
v.

See Pi.

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