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Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness.

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  1. a. Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness.
  2. n. A pie consisting usually of meat wholly surrounded with a crust made of a sheet of paste, and often baked without a dish; a meat pie.
  3. adj. resembling paste in color; pallid
  4. adj. having the sticky properties of an adhesive
  5. n. small meat pie or turnover
  6. n. (usually used in the plural) one of a pair of adhesive patches worn to cover the nipples of exotic dancers and striptease performers
  7. Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness. "A pasty complexion." G. Eliot. A pie consisting usually of meat wholly surrounded with a crust made of a sheet of paste, and often baked without a dish; a meat pie. "If ye pinch me like a pasty." Shak. "Apple pasties." Dickens. A large pasty baked in a pewter platter. Sir W. Scott.
  8. Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness. "A pastycomplexion." G. Eliot.
  9. j:56/n:44 n. small meat pie or turnover n. (usually used in the plural) one of a pair of adhesive patches worn to cover the nipples of exotic dancers and striptease performers s. resembling paste in color; pallid