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) 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" [syn: {motley}, {calico},
{multicolor}, {multi-color}, {multicolour}, {multi-
colour}, {multicolored}, {multi-colored},
{multicoloured}, {multi-coloured}, {painted},
{particolored}, {particoloured}, {piebald}, {pied},
{varicolored}, {varicoloured}]
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