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  4  definitions  found 
 
  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  1.6  [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},  {culticolour}, 
  {multicolored},  {multicoloured},  {painted},  {particolored}, 
  {particoloured},  {piebald},  {varicolored},  {varicoloured}] 




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