pie Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top
  2. noun a prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages
    Proto-Indo European.

WordNet

Pie noun
Etymology
OE. pie, pye; cf. Ir. & Gael. pighe pie, also Gael. pige an earthen jar or pot. Cf. Piggin.
Definitions
  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. easy as pie = very easy
Pie noun
Etymology
F. pie, L. pica; cf. picus woodpecker, pingere to paint; the bird being perhaps named from its colors. Cf. Pi, Paint, Speight.
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) (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.
Pie transitive verb
Definitions
  1. See Pi.

Webster 1913