PIE
PIE, noun [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, noun [Latin pica.] The magpi...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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PIEBALD
PI'EBALD, adjective Of various colors; diversified in color; as a piebald horse.
PIECE
PIECE, noun [Heb. to cut off or clip.]1. A fragment or part of any thing separated from the whole, in any manner, by cutting, splitting, breaking or tearing; as, to cut in piece...
PIECED
PIE'CED, participle passive Mended or enlarged by a piece or pieces.
PIECELESS
PIE'CELESS, adjective Not made of pieces; consisting of an entire thing.
PIECEMEAL
PIE'CEMEAL, adverb1. In pieces; in fragments.On which it piecemeal broke.2. By pieces; by little and little in succession.Piecemeal they win this acre first, then that.PIE'CEMEA...
PIECEMEALED
PIE'CEMEALED, adjective Divided into small pieces.
PIECER
PIE'CER, noun One that pieces; a patcher.
PIED
PI'ED, adjective [allied probably to pie, in piebald, and a contracted word, perhaps from the root of Latin pictus.]Variegated with spots of different colors; spotted. We now ap...
PIEDNESS
PI'EDNESS, noun Diversity of colors in spots.
PIELED
PIE'LED, adjective [See Peel.] Bald; bare.
PIEPOUDRE
PIE'POUDRE, noun An ancient court of record in England, incident to every fair and market, of which the steward of him who owns or has the toll, is the judge. It had jurisdictio...
PIER
PIER, noun [Latin petra.]1. A mass of solid stone work for supporting an arch or the timbers of a bridge or other building.2. A mass of stone work or a mole projecting into the ...
PIERCE
PIERCE, verb transitive pers.1. To thrust into with a pointed instrument; as, to pierce the body with a sword or spear; to pierce the side with a thorn.2. To penetrate; to enter...
PIERCEABLE
PIERCEABLE, adjective pers'able. That may be pierced.
PIERCED
PIERCED, participle passive pers'ed. Penetrated; entered by force; transfixed.
PIERCER
PIERCER, noun pers'er. An instrument that pierces, penetrates or bores.1. One that pierces or perforates.
PIERCING
PIERCING, participle present tense pers'ing. Penetrating; entering, as a pointed instrument; making a way by force into another body.1. Affecting deeply; as eloquence piercing t...
PIERCINGLY
PIERCINGLY, adverb pers'ingly. With penetrating force or effect; sharply.
PIERCINGNESS
PIERCINGNESS, noun pers'ingness. The power of piercing or penetrating; sharpness; keenness.
PIETISM
PI'ETISM, noun [See Piety.] Extremely strict devotion, or affectation of piety.
PIETIST
PI'ETIST, noun One of a sect professing great strictness and purity of life, despising learning, school theology and ecclesiastical polity, as also forms and ceremonies in relig...
PIETY
PI'ETY, noun [Latin pietas, from pius, or its root, probably a contracted word.]1.piety in principle, is a compound of veneration or reverence of the Supreme Being and love of h...
PIEZOMETER
PIEZOM'ETER, noun [Gr. to press, and measure.] An instrument for ascertaining the compressibility of water, and the degree of such compressibility under any given weight.
PIG
PIG, noun1. The young of swine, male or female.2. An oblong mass of unforged iron, lead or other metal. A pig of lead is the eighth of a fother, or 250 pounds.PIG, verb transiti...
PIGEON
PIG'EON, noun A fowl of the genus Columba, of several species, as the stock dove, the ring dove, the turtle dove, and the migratory or wild pigeon of America. The domestic pigeo...
PIGEON-FOOT
PIG'EON-FOOT, noun A plant.