pie

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A baked food composed of a pastry shell filled with fruit, meat, cheese, or other ingredients, and usually covered with a pastry crust.
2. n. A layer cake having cream, custard, or jelly filling.
3. n. A whole that can be shared: "That would . . . enlarge the economic pie by making the most productive use of every investment dollar” ( New York Times).
4. idiom. pie in the sky An empty wish or promise: "To outlaw deficits . . . is pie in the sky” ( Howard H. Baker, Jr.)
5. n. See magpie.
6. n. A monetary unit formerly in use in India and Pakistan.
7. n. An almanac of services used in the English church before the Reformation.
8. n. Printing Variant of pi².

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A dish consisting of a thin layer of pastry filled with a preparation of meat, fish, fowl, fruit, or vegetables, seasoned, generally covered with a thicker layer of pastry, and baked: as, beefsteak pie; oyster pie; chicken pie; pumpkin pie; custard pie.
2. n. Pies are sometimes made without the under thin layer of pastry. See pudding, tart, and turnover.
3. n. A mound or pit for keeping potatoes.
4. n. A compost-heap.
5. n. A magpie.
6. n. Hence Some similar or related bird; any pied bird: with a qualifying term: as, the smoky pie, Psilorhinus morio; the wandering pie of India, Temnurus (or Dendrocitta) vagabundus; the river-pie, or dipper, Cinclus aquaticus; the long-tailed pie, or titmouse, Acredula rosea; the murdering pie, or great gray shrike, Lanius excubitor; the sea-pie, or oyster-catcher; the Seoulton pewit or pie (see under pewit); etc.
7. n. Figuratively, a prating gossip or tattler.
8. n. Same as ordinal, 2 .
9. n. An index; a register; a list: as, a pie of sheriffs in the reign of Henry VIII
10. See pi.
11. n. The smallest Anglo-Indian copper coin, equal to one third of a pice, or one twelfth of an anna —about one fourth of a United States cent.
12. n. Formerly, a coin equal to one fourth of an anna.
13. n. A Spanish and Spanish-American unit of length, the foot, equal to from 10.97 to 11.13 inches in Spain, and to 11.37 inches in Argentina.
14. n. In Italy, a measure of length, the foot, equal, at Lucca, to 11.94 inches.

Wiktionary

1. n. obsolete Magpie.
2. n. historical The smallest unit of currency in South Asia, equivalent to 1/192 of a rupee or 1/12 of an anna.
3. n. A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling.
4. n. Extended to other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.
5. n. Northeastern US Pizza.
6. n. figuratively The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
7. n. A disorderly mess of spilt type.
8. n. cricket An especially badly bowled ball.
9. n. pejorative a gluttonous person.
10. n. slang vulva
11. v. transitive To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).
12. v. transitive To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. An article of food consisting of paste baked with something in it or under it
2. n. Prov. Eng. See Camp, n., 5.
3. n. A magpie.
4. n. Any other species of the genus Pica, and of several allied genera.
5. n. (R. C. Ch.) The service book.
6. n. (Pritn.) Type confusedly mixed. See Pi.
7. v. See pi.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top
2. n. a prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages