Pie

11 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pi \Pi\ (p[imac]), n. [See {Pica}, {Pie} magpie, service-book.]
     (Print.)
     A mass of type confusedly mixed or unsorted. [Written also
     {pie}.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pi \Pi\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pieing}.]
     (Print.)
     To put into a mixed and disordered condition, as type; to mix
     and disarrange the type of; as, to pi a form. [Written also
     {pie}.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pie \Pie\, v. t.
     See {Pi}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pie \Pie\, n. [OE. pie, pye; cf. Ir. & Gael. pighe pie, also
     Gael. pige an earthen jar or pot. Cf. {Piggin}.]
     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.
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     2. See {Camp}, n., 5. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
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     {Pie crust}, the paste of a pie.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pie \Pie\, n. [F. pie, L. pica; cf. picus woodpecker, pingere to
     paint; the bird being perhaps named from its colors. Cf.
     {Pi}, {Paint}, {Speight}.]
     1. (Zool.)
        (a) A magpie.
        (b) Any other species of the genus {Pica}, and of several
            allied genera. [Written also {pye}.]
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     2. (R. C. Ch.) The service book.
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     3. (Pritn.) Type confusedly mixed. See {Pi}.
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     {By cock and pie}, an adjuration equivalent to "by God and
        the service book." --Shak.
  
     {Tree pie} (Zool.), any Asiatic bird of the genus
        {Dendrocitta}, allied to the magpie.
  
     {Wood pie}. (Zool.) See {French pie}, under {French}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Camp \Camp\ (k[a^]mp), n. [F. camp, It. campo, fr. L. campus
     plant, field; akin to Gr. kh^pos garden. Cf. {Campaign},
     {Champ}, n.]
     1. The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected
        for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc. --Shak.
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     2. A collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly
        arranged in an orderly manner.
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              Forming a camp in the neighborhood of Boston. --W.
                                                    Irving.
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     3. A single hut or shelter; as, a hunter's camp.
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     4. The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers,
        of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc.
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              The camp broke up with the confusion of a flight.
                                                    --Macaulay.
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     5. (Agric.) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other
        vegetables are stored for protection against frost; --
        called also {burrow} and {pie}. [Prov. Eng.]
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     6. [Cf. OE. & AS. camp contest, battle. See {champion}.] An
        ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.
        --Halliwell.
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     {Camp bedstead}, a light bedstead that can be folded up onto
        a small space for easy transportation.
  
     {camp ceiling} (Arch.), a kind ceiling often used in attics
        or garrets, in which the side walls are inclined inward at
        the top, following the slope of the rafters, to meet the
        plane surface of the upper ceiling.
  
     {Camp chair}, a light chair that can be folded up compactly
        for easy transportation; the seat and back are often made
        of strips or pieces of carpet.
  
     {Camp fever}, typhus fever.
  
     {Camp follower}, a civilian accompanying an army, as a
        sutler, servant, etc.
  
     {Camp meeting}, a religious gathering for open-air preaching,
        held in some retired spot, chiefly by Methodists. It
        usually last for several days, during which those present
        lodge in tents, temporary houses, or cottages.
  
     {Camp stool}, the same as {camp chair}, except that the stool
        has no back.
  
     {Flying camp} (Mil.), a camp or body of troops formed for
        rapid motion from one place to another. --Farrow.
  
     {To pitch (a) camp}, to set up the tents or huts of a camp.
        
  
     {To strike camp}, to take down the tents or huts of a camp.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pie
       n 1: dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top
       2: a prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of
          all Indo-European languages [syn: {Proto-Indo European}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  74 Moby Thesaurus words for "pie":
     Danish pastry, Deutschmark, French pastry, Mark, Reichsmark,
     afghani, anna, baht, baklava, blintz, breeze, cent, centavo,
     centime, chocolate eclair, cinch, conto, cream puff, dollar, dong,
     dowdy, easy target, easy thing, eclair, florin, franc, guilder,
     gulden, kip, kopeck, krona, krone, lira, milreis, pandowdy, pastry,
     pasty, patisserie, patty, patty-shell, peseta, picnic,
     piece of cake, piece of eight, pipe, pistareen, pound, puff,
     pushover, quiche, rand, rial, rosette, ruble, rupee, setup, shekel,
     shilling, sinecure, sitting duck, snap, sol, sou, stiver, strudel,
     tart, timbale, tipsy cake, trifle, turnover, velvet, vol-au-vent,
     won, yen
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  PIE
       Personal Interactive Electronics [division] (Apple)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  PIE
       
          A language from {CMU} similar to {Actus}.
       
          (1994-11-29)
       
       

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  PIE, n.  An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.
  
      Cold pie was highly esteemed by the remains.
                                                         Rev. Dr. Mucker
                           (in a funeral sermon over a British nobleman)
  
      Cold pie is a detestable
      American comestible.
      That's why I'm done -- or undone --
      So far from that dear London.
                 (from the headstone of a British nobleman in Kalamazoo)