piebald

3 definitions found

piebald - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Piebald \Pie"bald`\, a. [Pie the party-colored bird + bald.]
     1. Having spots and patches of black and white, or other
        colors; mottled; pied. "A piebald steed of Thracian
        strain." --Dryden.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Fig.: Mixed. "Piebald languages." --Hudibras.
        [1913 Webster]

piebald - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  piebald
      adj 1: having sections or patches colored differently and
             usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the
             painted desert"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald
             horse"; "pied daisies" [syn: motley, calico,
             multicolor, multi-color, multicolour, multi-  colour
             , multicolored, multi-colored,
             multicoloured, multi-coloured, painted,
             particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied,
             varicolored, varicoloured]

piebald - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  24 Moby Thesaurus words for "piebald":
     bay, bayard, buckskin, calico, calico pony, chestnut, clouded,
     dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dun, gray, grizzle, marbled, motley,
     mottled, paint, painted pony, pepper-and-salt, pied, pinto, roan,
     skewbald, sorrel