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English Dictionary: Pied by the DICT Development Group
4 results for Pied
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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"
    Synonym(s): motley, calico, multicolor, multi-color, multicolour, multi- colour, multicolored, multi-colored, multicoloured, multi-coloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pied \Pied\,
      imp. & p. p. of {Pi}, or {Pie}, v.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pied \Pied\, a. [From {Pie} the party-colored bird.]
      Variegated with spots of different colors; party-colored;
      spotted; piebald. [bd]Pied coats.[b8] --Burton. [bd]Meadows
      trim with daisies pied.[b8] --Milton.
  
      {Pied antelope} (Zo[94]l.), the bontebok.
  
      {Pied-billed grebe} (Zo[94]l.), the dabchick.
  
      {Pied blackbird} (Zo[94]l.), any Asiatic thrush of the genus
            {Turdulus}.
  
      {Pied finch} (Zo[94]l.)
      (a) The chaffinch.
      (b) The snow bunting. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {Pied flycatcher} (Zo[94]l.), a common European flycatcher
            ({Ficedula atricapilla}). The male is black and white.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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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