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Definition of Pie

1. Noun. Dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top.

2. Noun. A prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages.

Definition of Pie

1. 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.

2. n. A magpie.

3. v. t. See Pi.

Definition of Pie

1. Initialism. (linguistics) Proto-Indo-European ''(the protolanguage of most modern European and Indic languages)'' ¹

2. Noun. A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling. ¹

3. Noun. Extended to other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling. ¹

4. Noun. (context: Northeastern US) Pizza. ¹

5. Noun. (figuratively) The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts. ¹

6. Noun. (letterpress) A disorderly mess of spilt type. ¹

7. Noun. (cricket) An especially badly bowled ball. ¹

8. Noun. (pejorative) a gluttonous person. ¹

9. Verb. (transitive) To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing). ¹

10. Verb. (transitive) To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner. ¹

11. Noun. (obsolete) magpie ¹

12. Noun. (historical) The smallest unit of currency in South Asia, equivalent to 1/192 of a Rupee or 1/12 of an anna. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pie

1. to pi [v PIED, PIEING, PIES] - See also: pi

Medical Definition of Pie

1. 1. A magpie. Any other species of the genus Pica, and of several allied genera. Alternative forms: pye. 2. The service book. 3. Type confusedly mixed. See Pi. By cock and pie, an adjuration equivalent to "by God and the service book." . Tree pie See French pie, under French. Origin: F. Pie, L. Pica; cf. Picus woodpecker, pingere to paint; the bird being perhaps named from its colours. Cf. Pi, Paint, Speight. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pie

piddlingly piddly piddock piddocks pide pidgeon pidgeons pidgin pidginization pidginizations

pidginize pidginized pidginizes pidginizing pidgins pie (current term) pie-chucker pie-dog pie-eater pie-eyed

pie-faced pie-hole pie-holes pie-in-the-sky pie-wipe pie chart pie charts pie crust pie floater pie hole

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