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Pie   /paɪ/   Listen
noun
Pie  n.  
1.
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.
See Camp, n., 5. (Prov. Eng.)
Pie crust, the paste of a pie.


Pie  n.  
1.
(Zool.)
(a)
A magpie.
(b)
Any other species of the genus Pica, and of several allied genera. (Written also pye)
2.
(R. C. Ch.) The service book.
3.
(Pritn.) Type confusedly mixed. See Pi.
By cock and pie, an adjuration equivalent to "by God and the service book."
Tree pie (Zool.), any Asiatic bird of the genus Dendrocitta, allied to the magpie.
Wood pie. (Zool.) See French pie, under French.


verb
Pie  v. t.  See Pi.





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"Pie" Quotes from Famous Books



... down upon me with his grimmest smile. "You curious little woman! You must not put your white fingers into the Departmental pie. If you had been a man, with as good a brain as you have for a woman, you would have been an ornament to our politics. But as it is—pardon me—the better for our balancing country the less you have to ...
— The Doomswoman - An Historical Romance of Old California • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
... that ham. I don't know about the cold pie, it may be tough. Yes, old Joe is an Englishman; at least, he was, but he's quite Americanized now. He spent forty years in Texas. He's really an educated man. Owned a nice ranch and got burned out. I'm very fond of him; but it isn't of ...
— The Night Riders - A Romance of Early Montana • Ridgwell Cullum
... Boiled beef and parsnips, the same as every Monday for all comers, and an apple pie for yourself ...
— New Irish Comedies • Lady Augusta Gregory
... said that pa said there were critters in any water, and as he couldn't see 'em he ran off with the glasses to see if they would help him. He tied our old Tom to the mouse trap because he said that he wanted the cat to be on hand when the mice ran in. He carried a squash pie out to the brindle cow because he thought she must be tired of eating nothing but grass, and if he and Grandma Babson have got to spend three months under the same roof, I b'lieve he'll drive her crazy, for she hates ...
— Randy and Her Friends • Amy Brooks
... absorbed from the whole world over. The Chinese were licked and like dogs they would come to heel. He knew it, for he knew men. He had put the fear of God into them, he and the girl; the thing was over. Give the "Chinks" time to lick their wounds and swallow their gruel and they would be right as pie. He had seen a whole ship's company licked by a little man of great will, and in hundreds of experiences and fights he had found that a beaten man, be he strong as ten, is to be led like a child. He was right. Next morning—they slept on deck that night keeping watch alternately—the "Chinks," ...
— The Beach of Dreams • H. De Vere Stacpoole


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