Pied

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pied \Pied\,
     imp. & p. p. of {Pi}, or {Pie}, v.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pied
       adj : 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},
             {multicolour}, {multicolored}, {multicoloured}, {painted},
              {particolored}, {particoloured}, {piebald}, {varicolored},
              {varicoloured}]