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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
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]

2. 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.]
   [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pied \Pied\,
   imp. & p. p. of Pi, or Pie, v.
   [1913 Webster]

4. 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.
   [1913 Webster]

   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.
      [1913 Webster]

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