Pie
[paɪ]
Definition
(noun.) dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top.
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Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) See Camp, n., 5.
(n.) A magpie.
(n.) Any other species of the genus Pica, and of several allied genera.
(n.) The service book.
(n.) Type confusedly mixed. See Pi.
(v. t.) See Pi.
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Definition
n. the smallest Indian copper coin equal to ⅓ of a pice or 1⁄12 of an anna.
n. a quantity of meat or fruit baked within a crust of prepared flour.—A finger in the pie (see Finger); Humble-pie (see Humble); Mince-pie (see Mince); Perigord pie a pie flavoured with truffles abundant in Perigord in France.
n. a magpie: (print.) type mixed or unsorted (cf. Pi).
n. a book which ordered the manner of performing divine service: a service-book: an ordinal.—By cock and pie (Shak.) a minced oath=By God and the service-book.
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To dream of eating pies, you will do well to watch your enemies, as they are planning to injure you. For a young woman to dream of making pies, denotes that she will flirt with men for pastime. She should accept this warning. See Pastry.
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n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.
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Examples
- There's a pie! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I'm a thinkin whether Missis would be a havin a chicken pie o' dese yer. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Keep a pie pan filled with water in the ventilator for moisture and keep two or three moist sponges in the egg drawer, displacing a few eggs for the purpose. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- I call it pie, nuts, sugar-candy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The fat boy had by this time finished the pie. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- They have immense, flat, forked cushions of feet, that make a track in the dust like a pie with a slice cut out of it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Yer mind dat ar great chicken pie I made when we guv de dinner to General Knox? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Mr. Pickwick, who had been deeply investigating the interior of the pigeon-pie, readily assented. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- You must know, said my sister, rising, it's a pie; a savory pork pie. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He had a shilling in his pocket; and he dined sumptuously, he tells me, on a black-pudding, an eel-pie, and a bottle of ginger-beer. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- A handsome mince-pie had been made yesterday morning (which accounted for the mincemeat not being missed), and the pudding was already on the boil. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Here's a little pie (a gem this is, both for size and quality), made in France. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Pitying his desolation, and watching him as he gradually settled down upon the pie, I made bold to say, I am glad you enjoy it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It can't be a pie. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Have you happened to miss such an article as a pie, blacksmith? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I know somewhere about what things are likely to be; but there's no trimming and squaring my affairs, as Chloe trims crust off her pies. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Amy found that housework and art did not go well together, and returned to her mud pies. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Why, she makes pies--sartin she does; but what kinder crust? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Having finished her pies, she moved towards the clothes-horse, and said, Come here and tell me the story I told you on Wednesday, about Cincinnatus. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The fat boy pointed to the destination of the pies. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The operators there had been much annoyed by an army of cockroaches that used to march across the table where they put their lunches and make a raid on the sandwiches and pies. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It will bake pies, cake, biscuit, potatoes, roast meats, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I fancy she was wanted about the mince-pies. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Ye see, there's _pints_ in all pies, Mas'r George; but tan't everybody knows what they is, or as orter be. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Just was, sir,' replied Mr. Weller, continuing his occupation of emptying the basket, 'and the pies was beautiful. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Vere does the mince-pies go, young opium-eater? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Mak' 'em into pies. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I lodged in the same house vith a pieman once, sir, and a wery nice man he was--reg'lar clever chap, too--make pies out o' anything, he could. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The Story of the Mutton Pies. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I an't afraid to put my cake, nor pies nother, 'long side no _perfectioner's_. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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