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A thin, broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.

One who, or that which, slices; specifically, the circular saw of the lapidary.

A wooden knife with a long thin blade, used in handling cream or ice cream.

A pie made of apples (usually sliced or stewed) with spice and sugar. Apple-pie bed, a bed in which, as a joke, the sheets are so doubled (like the cover of an apple turnover) as to prevent any one from getting at his length between them. Halliwell, Conybeare. -- Apple-pie order, perfect order or arrangement. [Colloq.…

To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.

A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.

A steak of beef; a slice of beef broiled or suitable for broiling.

To cut in slices and pickle, as salmon. [Obs.] For a change, leave calvered salmon and eat sprats. Massinger.

(Cookery) A slice or piece of bread fried in butter or oil, on which anchovies, mushrooms, etc., are served.

To cut (meat) across for frying or broiling; to cut or slice and broil. [Obs.] A short-legged hen daintily carbonadoed. Bean. & Fl.

To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion. "To carve a capon." Shak.

A kind of pie or pudding made by lining a dish with slices of bread, and filling it with bread soaked in milk, and baked. Charlotte Russe (, or Charlotte à la russe Etym: [F., lit., Russian charlotte] (Cookery), a dish composed of custard or whipped cream, inclosed in sponge cake.

ho resembles either of his parents. [Colloq.] Milton.- Potato chips, Saratoga chips, thin slices of raw potato fried crisp.

A piece chopped off; a slice or small piece, especially of meat; as, a mutton chop.

h rice, noodles, etc. It consists typically of bean sprouts, onions, mushrooms, etc., and sliced meats, fried and flavored with sesame oil. [U. S.]

A salad made of sliced cabbage.

A small slice of meat; a piece of flesh. God knows thou art a collop of my flesh. Shak. Sweetbread and collops were with skewers pricked. Dryden.

One of the small chips or slices into which beets are cut in sugar making.

oking, as with pepper. A deviled leg of turkey. W. Irving. deviled egg a hard-boiled egg, sliced into halves and with the yolk removed and replaced with a paste, usually made from the yolk and mayonnaise, seasoned with salt and/or spices such as paprika.

A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it. [Obs.] Johnson.