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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PIE, n. [Gr. thick; or from mixing.]
An article of food consisting of paste baked with something in it or under it, as apple, minced meat, etc.
PIE, n. [L. pica.] The magpie, a party-colored bird of the genus Corvus. It is sometimes written pye.
1. The old popish service book, supposed to be so called from the different color of the text and rubric, or from litera picata, a large black letter, used at the beginning of each order.
2. Printers' types mixed or unsorted.
Cork and pie, an adjuration by the pie or service book, and by the sacred name of the Deity corrupted.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin pica; akin to Latin picus woodpecker, Old High German speh Date: 13th century magpie II. noun Etymology: Middle English Date: 14th century 1. a meat dish baked with biscuit or pastry crust — compare potpie 2. a dessert consisting of a filling (as of fruit or custard) in a pastry shell or topped with pastry or both 3. a. affair, business <she wanted her finger…in every possible social pie — Mary Deasy> b. a whole regarded as divisible into shares <giving the less fortunate…a larger share of the economic pie — R. M. Hutchins> III. variant of pi

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. 1 a baked dish of meat, fish, fruit, etc., usu. with a top and base of pastry. 2 anything resembling a pie in form (a mud pie). Phrases and idioms: easy as pie very easy. pie chart a circle divided into sectors to represent relative quantities. pie-eater Austral. sl. a person of little account. pie-eyed sl. drunk. pie in the sky an unrealistic prospect of future happiness after present suffering; a misleading promise. Etymology: ME, perh. = PIE(2) f. miscellaneous contents compared to objects collected by a magpie 2. n. archaic 1 a magpie. 2 a pied animal. Etymology: ME f. OF f. L pica 3. n. & v. (US pi) --n. 1 a confused mass of printers' type. 2 chaos. --v.tr. (pieing) muddle up (type). Etymology: perh. transl. F P&AC.T&EA. = PIE(1) 4. n. hist. a former monetary unit of India equal to one-twelfth of an anna. Etymology: Hind. etc. pa' i f. Skr. pad, padi quarter

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pi Pi, n. [See Pica, Pie magpie, service-book.] (Print.) A mass of type confusedly mixed or unsorted. [Written also pie.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pie Pie, v. t. See Pi.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(pies) 1. A pie consists of meat, vegetables, or fruit baked in pastry. ...a pork pie. ...apple pie and custard. N-VAR see also cottage pie, shepherd's pie 2. If you describe an idea, plan, or promise of something good as pie in the sky, you mean that you think that it is very unlikely to happen. The true regeneration of devastated Docklands seemed like pie in the sky... to eat humble pie: see humble PHRASE: usu v-link PHR

Airports

Landing Facility Type	AIRPORT
Airport Code	PIE
EFF_DATE	02/16/2006
FAA Region	ASO
FAA District	ORL
State	FL
State	FLORIDA
County	PINELLAS
County State	FL
City Name	ST PETERSBURG-CLEARWATER
Full Name	ST PETERSBURG-CLEARWATER INTL
Owner Type	PU
Facility Use	PU
Facility City, State, Zip	"CLEARWATER, FL 33762"
Elevation	10
Aeronautical chart on which the airport facility appears	MIAMI
Distance from the central business district of the associated city to the airport in nautical miles	08
Direction of airport from the central business district of the associated city	N
Airport Certification Type and Date	I CS 11/1974
NASP/Federal Agreement Code	NGPRY3
Customs international airport	N
Customs Landing Rights Airport	Y
Joint Use	N
Military Landing Rights	Y
Control Tower	Y
Based Single Engine General Aviation Aircraft	183
Based Multi-engine general aviation aircraft	056
Based Jet engine general aviation aircraft	039
Based Helicopters	019
Based Military Aircraft	019
Commercial Services	012060
Air Taxi	007263
General Aviation, Local Operations	074482
General Aviation - Itinerant Operations	093769
Military Aircraft Operations	019336
Latitude	27.9101666667
Longitude	-82.6873888889
State FIPS code	12
State Postal Code	FL
Total domestic enplanements (inbound plus outbound)	666904
Version	09

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