n. A dish consisting of a thin layer of pastry filled with a preparation of meat, fish, fowl, fruit, or vegetables, seasoned, generally covered with a thicker layer of pastry, and baked: as, beefsteak pie; oyster pie; chicken pie; pumpkin pie; custard pie.n. Pies are sometimes made without the under thin layer of pastry. See pudding, tart, and turnover.n. A mound or pit for keeping potatoes.n. A compost-heap.n. A magpie.n. Hence Some similar or related bird; any pied bird: with a qualifying term: as, the smoky pie, Psilorhinus morio; the wandering pie of India, Temnurus (or Dendrocitta) vagabundus; the river-pie, or dipper, Cinclus aquaticus; the long-tailed pie, or titmouse, Acredula rosea; the murdering pie, or great gray shrike, Lanius excubitor; the sea-pie, or oyster-catcher; the Seoulton pewit or pie (see under pewit); etc.n. Figuratively, a prating gossip or tattler.n. Same as ordinal, 2 .n. An index; a register; a list: as, a pie of sheriffs in the reign of Henry VIIISee pi.n. The smallest Anglo-Indian copper coin, equal to one third of a pice, or one twelfth of an anna —about one fourth of a United States cent.n. Formerly, a coin equal to one fourth of an anna.n. A Spanish and Spanish-American unit of length, the foot, equal to from 10.97 to 11.13 inches in Spain, and to 11.37 inches in Argentina.n. In Italy, a measure of length, the foot, equal, at Lucca, to 11.94 inches.