pye

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pye - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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. (Zool.)
        (a) A magpie.
        (b) Any other species of the genus Pica, and of several
            allied genera. [Written also pye.]
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     2. (R. C. Ch.) The service book.
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     3. (Pritn.) Type confusedly mixed. See Pi.
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     By cock and pie, an adjuration equivalent to "by God and
        the service book." --Shak.
  
     Tree pie (Zool.), any Asiatic bird of the genus
        Dendrocitta, allied to the magpie.
  
     Wood pie. (Zool.) See French pie, under French.
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  Pye \Pye\, n.
     See 2d Pie
     (b) .
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