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pasty |
3 definitions found 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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