What does "pie" mean?
Pie: See Camp, n., 5. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. Pie crust, the paste of a pie.
Additional senses
- 2.(Zoöl.) (a) A magpie. (b) Any other species of the genus Pica, and of several allied genera. [Written also pye.]
- 3.(R. C. Ch.) The service book.
- 4.(Pritn.) 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.
- 5.See Pi.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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