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ADJECTIVE (1)

1. having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly;
- Example: "a jester dressed in motley"
- Example: "the painted desert"
- Example: "a particolored dress"
- Example: "a piebald horse"
- Example: "pied daisies"
[syn: motley, calico, multicolor, multi-color, multicolour, multi-colour, multicolored, multi-colored, multicoloured, multi-coloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Pied \Pied\,
   imp. & p. p. of Pi, or Pie, v.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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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