Definition of "meringue"

meringue

/məˈɹæŋ/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural meringues
1. A mixture consisting of beaten egg whites and sugar which is added to the tops of pies then browned.
2. A shell made of this mixture which serves as the receptacle for fruit, ice cream or sherbet.
  Quotations
  It had the same laxness in texture that all organic structures seem to have upon the moon; it tasted rather like a gauffre or a damp meringue, but in no way was it disagreeable.
  1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter XIII, in The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, […], published 1901, page 150
verb
third-person singular simple present meringues, present participle meringuing, simple past and past participle meringued
1. (cooking, transitive) To prepare as a meringue dish.