pied

4 definitions found

pied - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Pi \Pi\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pied; p. pr. & vb. n. Pieing.]
     (Print.)
     To put into a mixed and disordered condition, as type; to mix
     and disarrange the type of; as, to pi a form. [Written also
     pie.]
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  Pied \Pied\,
     imp. & p. p. of Pi, or Pie, v.
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  Pied \Pied\, a. [From Pie the party-colored bird.]
     Variegated with spots of different colors; party-colored;
     spotted; piebald. "Pied coats." --Burton. "Meadows trim with
     daisies pied." --Milton.
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     Pied antelope (Zool.), the bontebok.
  
     Pied-billed grebe (Zool.), the dabchick.
  
     Pied blackbird (Zool.), any Asiatic thrush of the genus
        Turdulus.
  
     Pied finch (Zool.)
     (a) The chaffinch.
     (b) The snow bunting. [Prov. Eng.]
  
     Pied flycatcher (Zool.), a common European flycatcher
        (Ficedula atricapilla). The male is black and white.
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pied - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  pied
      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]