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PIE . (1) The name of the See also:bird more generally known as the See also:magpie (q.v.). The word comes through the See also:French from See also:Lat. See also:pica (q.v.). It is probably from the See also:black and See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white or spotted See also:appearance of the bird that the name "pie" or "See also:pye" (Lat. pica) was given to the ordinal, a table or See also:calendar which supplemented that which gave the services for the fixed festivals, &c., and pointed out the effect on them of the festivals rendered movable by the changing date of See also:Easter. An See also:English See also:act of 1549 (3 & 4 Edw. VI. c. ro) abolished " pies" with manuals, legends, primers and other service books. The parti-coloured appearance of the magpie also gives rise to the See also:term " piebald," applied to an See also:animal, more particularly a See also:horse, which is marked with large irregular patches of white and black; where the See also:colour is white and some colour other than black, the more appropriate word is " skew-bald," i.e. marked with " skew " or irregular patches. (2) A dish made of See also:meat, See also:fish or other ingredients, also of vegetables or See also:fruit, baked in a covering of pastry; in English usage, where " fruit " is the ingredient, the dish is generally called a " See also:tart," except in the See also:case of " See also:apple-pie." The word appears See also:early in the 14th See also:century of meat or fish pies.
The expression " to eat humble-pie," i.e. to make an See also:apology, to retract or recant, is a facetious See also:adaptation of " umbles " (O. Fr. nombles, connected with Lat. lumbus, See also:loin or umbilicus, See also:navel), the inner parts of a See also:deer, to " humble " (Lat. humilis, lowly). An " umble-pie," made of the inner parts of a deer or other animal, was once a favourite dish. " Printers' pie," i.e. a See also:mass of confused type, is a transferred sense of " pie," the dish, or of " pie," the ordinal, from the difficulty of decipherment.
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