CHOAKING PYE

Meaning of CHOAKING PYE in English

CHOAKING PYE, or COLD PYE, A punishment inflicted on any person sleeping in company: it consists in wrapping up cotton in a case or tube of paper, setting it on fire, and directing the smoke up the nostrils of the sleeper. See HOWELL'S COTGRAVE.

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PYE — biographical name Henry James 1745-1813 English poet laureate (1790-1813)
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
PYE — variant of pie
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PYE — (n.) See 2d Pie (b).
Английский словарь Webster
PYE — ( n. ) See 2d Pie (b).
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
PYE — /puy/ , n. Eccles. pie 4 . [ 1530-40 ]
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
PYE — biographical name Henry James 1745-1813 English poet laureate (1790-1813)
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
PYE — noun ·see 2d pie (b).
Webster English vocab
PYE — also called Prome, town, southern Myanmar (Burma), on the Irrawaddy River. It is a trading centre and the site of …
Britannica English vocabulary
PYE — Pye BrE AmE paɪ
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
PYE — Пай (фирменное название бытовой радиотехники, различных электроприборов и электронного оборудования компании "Филлипс телеком" [Phillips Telecom])
Англо-Русский словарь Britain
PYE — "Пай" (фирменное название бытовой радиотехники, различных электроприборов и электронного оборудования компании "Филлипс телеком" [Phillips Telecom])
Великобритания - Лингвострановедческий словарь
PYE GREEN — County: Staffordshire Post Code: WS12
UK Post Codes and Counties English vocabulary
PYE CORNER — County: Newport Post Code: NP6
UK Post Codes and Counties English vocabulary
PYE-DOG — noun Etymology: perhaps from Hindi pāhī outsider Date: 1864 a half-wild dog common about Asian villages
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
JOE-PYE WEED — noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1818 any of several tall North American perennial composite herbs (especially Eupatorium maculatum and E. …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
SPOTTED JOE-PYE WEED. — See joe-pye weed (def. 2).
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
PYE-DOG — /puy"dawg', -dog'/ , n. an ownerless half-wild dog of uncertain breeding, common in the villages and towns of India and …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
JOE-PYE WEED — /joh'puy"/ 1. Also called purple boneset . a tall composite weed, Eupatorium purpureum, of North America, having clusters of pinkish …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
PYE-DOG — [ 'pʌɪdɒg ] (also pi-dog ) ■ noun (in Asia) a half-wild stray mongrel. Origin C19: from Anglo-Ind. pye , …
Concise Oxford English vocab
PYE-DOG — [pye-dog] n [perh. fr. Hindi pahi outsider] (1864): a half-wild dog common about Asian villages
Merriam-Webster English vocab
JOE-PYE WEED — [joe-pye weed] n [origin unknown] (ca. 1818): any of several tall American perennial composite herbs (esp. Eupatorium maculatum and E. …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
PYE, HENRY JAMES — born Feb. 20, 1745, London, Eng. died Aug. 11, 1813, Pinner, Middlesex British poet laureate from 1790 to 1813. Pye …
Britannica English vocabulary
PYE-DOG — pye-dog BrE AmE ˈpaɪ dɒɡ AmE \ -dɔːɡ -dɑːɡ ▷ pye-dog|s z
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
PYE-DOG — (also pie-dog , pi-dog ) / ˈpaɪ dɒg; NAmE dɔːg/ noun (especially in Asia) a dog that has no owner …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PYE-DOG — n. (also pie-dog, pi-dog) a vagrant mongrel, esp. in Asia. [Anglo-Ind. pye, paê, Hindi pahi outsider + DOG]
Английский основной разговорный словарь
PYE-DOG — n. (also pie-dog, pi-dog) a vagrant mongrel, esp. in Asia. Etymology: Anglo-Ind. pye, pa{euml}, Hindi pahi outsider + DOG
Oxford English vocab
YARMOUTH PYE — A pye made of herrings highly spiced, which the city of Norwich is by charter bound to present annually to …
Slang English vocab
APPLE-PYE BED — . A bed made apple-pye fashion, like what is called a turnover apple-pye, where the sheets are so doubled as …
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BONESET — also called thoroughwort any of about 500 species of herbaceous plants comprising the genus Eupatorium of the composite family (Asteraceae), …
Britannica English vocabulary
IVP — Intravenous pyelogram or intravenous pyelography (in-tra-VEE-nus PYE-el-o-gram or pye-LAH-gra-fee). A series of x-rays of the kidneys, ureters, and bladder. The …
NCI English Dictionary of Cancer Terms

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