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n 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.

Having spots and patches of black and white, or other colors; mottled; pied. "A piebald steed of Thracian strain." Dryden.

, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piece of sugar; to break in pieces. Bring it out piece by piece. Ezek. xxiv. 6.

Not made of pieces; whole; entire.

In pieces; piecemeal. [Obs.]

In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson.

Divided into pieces.

Same as Piecer, 2.

One who pieces; a patcher.

Work done by the piece or job; work paid for at a rate based on the amount of work done, rather than on the time employed. The reaping was piecework, at so much per acre. R. Jefferies.

imp. & p. p. of Pi, or Pie, v.

Noting the region of foothills near the base of a mountain chain.

A manganesian kind of epidote, from Piedmont. See Epidote.

The state of being pied. Shak.

A pedestal of small size, used to support small objects, as busts, vases, and the like.

See Pedestal. [Obs.]

A man who makes or sells pies.

See Peen.

Full; having all the instruments.

A plant (Rheum Rhaponticum) the leafstalks of which are acid, and are used in making pies; the garden rhubarb.