subs. phr. (old).—See quot.
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. SUPERSTITIOUS-PIES, Minc’d, or Christmas-Pies, so Nick-nam’d by the Puritans, or Precisians, tho’ they can Eat em, but affecting to be singular, make them a Month or six Weeks before Christmas, or the Feast of Christ.
