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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pasty

	Pasty \Pas"ty\, a.
   Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness. "A pasty
   complexion." --G. Eliot.
   [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pasty

	Pasty \Pas"ty\, n.; pl. Pasties. [OF. past['e], F. p[^a]t['e].
   See Paste, and cf. Patty.]
   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.
   [1913 Webster]

         A large pasty baked in a pewter platter. --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
   [1913 Webster]

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
Pasty

	pasty
     adj 1: resembling paste in color; pallid; "the looked pasty and
            red-eyed"; "a complexion that had been pastelike was
            now chalky white" [syn: pastelike]
     2: having the properties of glue [syn: gluey, glutinous, gummy,
         mucilaginous, sticky, viscid, viscous]
     n : small meat pie or turnover
     [also: pastiest, pastier]

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Pasty

	147 Moby Thesaurus words for "pasty":
   Danish pastry, French pastry, achromatic, achromic, adhesive,
   amylaceous, anemic, ashen, ashy, baccate, baklava, bled white,
   blintz, bloodless, cadaverous, chloranemic, chocolate eclair,
   clabbered, clammy, clayey, clotted, coagulated, colorless,
   cream puff, curdled, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, dim, dimmed,
   dingy, discolored, doughy, dowdy, dull, eclair, etiolated,
   exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, fallow,
   flabby, flat, fleshy, gaumy, gelatinous, ghastly, glairy, gluelike,
   gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, gray, grumous,
   gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, haggard, heavy, hueless,
   hypochromic, inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, lackluster,
   leaden, livid, loamy, lurid, lusterless, macerated, masticated,
   mat, mealy, mucilaginous, muddy, mushy, neutral, pale,
   pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pandowdy, pastry, patisserie,
   patty, patty-shell, pie, pithy, puff, pulpal, pulpar, pulped,
   pulplike, pulpy, quiche, ropy, rosette, sallow, sickly, slabby,
   slimy, slithery, soft, spongy, squashy, squelchy, squishy, starchy,
   sticky, stodgy, stringy, strudel, succulent, syrupy, tacky,
   tallow-faced, tart, tenacious, thick, thickened, timbale,
   tipsy cake, toneless, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, trifle,
   turnover, uncolored, viscid, viscose, viscous, vol-au-vent, wan,
   washed-out, waxen, weak, whey-faced, white

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