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10 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pi \Pi\, n. [See {Pica}, {Pie} magpie, service-book.] (Print.) A mass of type confusedly mixed or unsorted. [Written also {pie}.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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}.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 2. See {Camp}, n., 5. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. {Pie crust}, the paste of a pie. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. (Zo["o]l.) a A magpie. b Any other species of the genus {Pica}, and of several allied genera. [Written also {pye}.] 2. (R. C. Ch.) The service book. 3. (Pritn.) Type confusedly mixed. See {Pi}. {By cock and pie}, an adjuration equivalent to ``by God and the service book.'' --Shak. {Tree pie} (Zo["o]l.), any Asiatic bird of the genus {Dendrocitta}, allied to the magpie. {Wood pie}. (Zo["o]l.) See {French pie}, under {French}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pie \Pie\, v. t. See {Pi}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Camp \Camp\, n. [F. camp, It campo, fr L. campus plant, field; akin to Gr ? garden. Cf {Campaing}, {Champ}, n.] 1. The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc --Shzk. 2. A collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly arranged in an orderly manner. Forming a camp in the neighborhood of Boston. --W. Irving. 3. A single hut or shelter; as a hunter's camp. 4. The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc The camp broke up with the confusion of a flight. --Macaulay. 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.] 6. [Cf. OE & AS camp contest, battle. See {champion}.] An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England. --Halliwell. {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. From WordNet r 1.6 [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}, {PIE}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: PIE A language from {CMU} similar to {Actus}. (1994-11-29) From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: PIE Personal Interactive Electronics [division] (Apple) 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)
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