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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PYE, n. [probably a contracted word, and the same as pie, a mass.]
A confused mass; the state of printing types when the sorts are mixed.
PYE, n. A bird. [See Pie.]

Merriam Webster's

biographical name Henry James 1745-1813 English poet laureate (1790-1813)

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

Pye Pye, n. See 2d Pie (b) .