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By cock and pie

Pie \Pie\, n. [F. pie, L. pica; cf. picus woodpecker, pingere to paint; the bird being perhaps named from its colors. Cf. Pi, Paint, Speight.]

  1. (Zo["o]l.)

    1. A magpie.

    2. 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.

    By cock and pie, an adjuration equivalent to ``by God and the service book.''
    --Shak.

    Tree pie (Zo["o]l.), any Asiatic bird of the genus Dendrocitta, allied to the magpie.

    Wood pie. (Zo["o]l.) See French pie, under French.