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adjective

Pied adj. Variegated with spots of different colors; party-colored; spotted; piebald. "Pied coats." "Meadows trim with daisies pied."

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.

verb

Pi v. t. (past & past part. pied; pres. part. pieing) (Written also pie) (Print.) To put into a mixed and disordered condition, as type; to mix and disarrange the type of; as, to pi a form.

Pied v. Imp. & p. p. of Pi, or Pie, v.

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Etymology of 'Pied'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pied" Quotes from Famous Books

... been caught in the fields after it had come to its full colours. In about a year it began to look dingy; and, blackening every succeeding year, it became coal-black at the end of four. Its chief food was hemp- seed. Such influence has food on the colour of animals! The pied and mottled colours of domesticated animals are supposed to be owing to high, various, and ...

— The Natural History of Selborne • Gilbert White

... the twain Thou didst bestow Leafy bowers in pleasaunce fair: Where spring's scents for aye did blow, And four stately streams did flow O'er meads pied ...

— The Hymns of Prudentius • Aurelius Clemens Prudentius

... on the road, you mean,' said John Thresher. 'Na, na, he's come to settle nigh a weedy field, if you like, but his crop ain't nigh reaping yet. Hark you, Mary Waddy, who're a widde, which 's as much as say, an unocc'pied mind, there's cockney, and there's country, and there 's school. Mix the three, strain, and throw away the sediment. ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... de pied planted a heel against one of the man's shins, and his onslaught faltered in a gust of curses. Then the point of his jaw received the full force of Lanyard's right fist with all the ill will imaginable behind it. ...

— The False Faces • Vance, Louis Joseph

... people are influenced by a Pied Piper kind of fellow who calls himself a conjurer, and is rather ...

— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Patrick Braybrooke

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