Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pasty \Pas"ty\, a.
   Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness. ``A pasty
   complexion.'' --G. Eliot.

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.

         A large pasty baked in a pewter platter. --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.

Source : WordNet®

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}]