The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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(Zo["o]l.)
A magpie.
Any other species of the genus Pica, and of several allied genera. [Written also pye.]
(R. C. Ch.) The service book.
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(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.