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A mass of type confusedly mixed or unsorted. [Written also pie.]

fine material for ladies' shawls, scarfs, handkerchiefs, etc., made from the fiber of the pineapple leaf, and perhaps from other fibrous tropical leaves. It is delicate, soft, and transparent, with a slight tinge of pale yellow.

The delicate and highly vascular membrane immediately investing the brain and spinal cord.

See Piassava.

A heinous offense which requires expiation. [R.] Howell.

Expiatory; atoning. Sir G. C. Lewis.

The quality or state of being piacular; criminality; wickedness. De Quincey.

Same as Piacular.

Pertaining to the pia mater.

The yaws. See Yaws.

The magpie. [Written also pianate, and pyenate.]

A small piano; a pianino.

A pianette, or small piano.

Very soft; -- a direction to execute a passage as softly as possible. (Abbrev. pp.)

A performer, esp. a skilled performer, on the piano.

Soft; -- a direction to the performer to execute a certain passage softly, and with diminished volume of tone. (Abbrev. p.)

wires of graduated length, thickness, and tension, struck by hammers moved by keys. Dumb piano. See Digitorium. -- Grand piano. See under Grand. -- Square piano, one with a horizontal frame and an oblong case. -- Upright piano, one with an upright frame and vertical wires.

A form of melodiograph applied to a piano.

A West African pie (Ptilostomus Senegalensis).

One of a religious order who are the regular clerks of the Scuole Pie (religious schools), an institute of secondary education, founded at Rome in the last years of the 16th century. Addis & Arnold.