Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pied"
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}.]
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. ``Pied coats.'' --Burton. ``Meadows trim
with daisies pied.'' --Milton.
{Pied antelope} (Zo["o]l.), the bontebok.
{Pied-billed grebe} (Zo["o]l.), the dabchick.
{Pied blackbird} (Zo["o]l.), any Asiatic thrush of the genus
{Turdulus}.
{Pied finch} (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The chaffinch.
(b) The snow bunting. [Prov. Eng.]
{Pied flycatcher} (Zo["o]l.), a common European flycatcher
({Ficedula atricapilla}). The male is black and white.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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}, {multicolor}, {multicolour},
{multicolored}, {multicoloured}, {painted}, {particolored},
{particoloured}, {piebald}, {varicolored}, {varicoloured}]
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