Pie, 1) the bird Pica, magpie: “chattering --s in dismal discords sung,” H6C V, 6, 48.
2) paste baked with something in it: Shr. IV, 3, 82. All's I, 1, 173. Wint. IV, 3, 49. Troil. I, 2, 280. Tit. V, 3, 60. Rom. II, 4, 139. Proverbial expression: “no man's p. is freed from his ambitious finger,” H8 I, 1, 52.
3) the service-book of the Romish church, supposed to be meant in the oath “by cock and pie:” Wiv. I, 1, 316. H4B V, 1, 1.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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