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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pasty \Pas"ty\, a.
Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness. ``A pasty
complexion.'' --G. Eliot.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pasty \Pas"ty\, n.; pl {Pasties}. [OF. past['e], F. p[^a]t['e].
See {Paste}, and cf {Patty}.]
A pie consisting usually of meat wholly surrounded with a
crust made of a sheet of paste, and often baked without a
dish; a meat pie. ``If ye pinch me like a pasty.'' --Shak.
``Apple pasties.'' --Dickens.
A large pasty baked in a pewter platter. --Sir W.
Scott.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
pasty
adj 1: resembling paste in color; pallid; "the looked pasty and
red-eyed"; "a complexion that had been pastelike was
now chalky white" [syn: {pastelike}]
2: having the properties of glue [syn: {gluey}, {glutinous}, {gummy},
{mucilaginous}, {sticky}, {viscid}, {viscous}]
n : small meat pie or turnover
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