[pie] n [ME, fr. OF, fr. L pica; akin to L picus woodpecker, OHG speh] (13c ): magpie
[2]pie n [ME] (14c) 1: a meat dish baked with biscuit or pastry crust--compare potpie
2: a dessert consisting of a filling (as of fruit or custard) in a pastry shell or topped with pastry or both 3 a: affair, business "she wanted her finger ... in every possible social ~ --Mary Deasy" b: a whole regarded as divisible into shares "giving the less fortunate ... a larger share of the economic ~ --R. M. Hutchins" [3]pie var of pi