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• Pye

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• Sea pye

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• Pye Corner

  At the northern end of Giltspur Street, leading to West Smithfield, in Farringdon Ward Without (Elme...

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• cold pye

  A punishment inflicted on any person sleeping in company: it consists in wrapping up cotton in a cas...

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• yarmouth pye

  A pye made of herrings highly spiced, which the city of Norwich is by charter bound to present annua...

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• sea-pye

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• Joe-Pye weed

  ·- A tall composite plant of the genus Eupatorium (E. purpureum), with purplish flowers, and whorled...

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• Pye, Henry James

  (1745-1813) A country gentleman of Berkshire, who pub. Poems on Various Subjects and Alfred, an Epi...

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• apple-pye bed

  A bed made apple-pye fashion, like what is called a turnover apple-pye, where the sheets are so doub...

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• pudding-pye-doll

  the dish called toad-in-a-hole, meat boiled in a crust. Norf. ...

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• Pye Corner, Tower Street

  At the east end of Tower Street, and north end of Petty Wales, 23 poles north from Richardson's whar...

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• Pye in the Royall

  A Messuage so called in the parish of St. Michael Paternoster Church, 1565 (Lond. I. p.m. II. 35). ...

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