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HOME | Definition of piebald (PIEBALD, Piebald)


    Piebald \Pie"bald`\, a. [Pie the party-colored bird + bald.]
    1. Having spots and patches of black and white, or other
    colors; mottled; pied. "A piebald steed of Thracian
    strain." --Dryden.
    [1913 Webster]

    2. Fig.: Mixed. "Piebald languages." --Hudibras.
    [1913 Webster]

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48


    piebald
    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, calico, multicolor,
    multicolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted,
    particolored, particoloured, pied, varicolored,
    varicoloured]

    WordNet (r) 2.0


    24 Moby Thesaurus words for "piebald":
    bay, bayard, buckskin, calico, calico pony, chestnut, clouded,
    dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dun, gray, grizzle, marbled, motley,
    mottled, paint, painted pony, pepper-and-salt, pied, pinto, roan,
    skewbald, sorrel

    Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0


calico, motley, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, pied, varicolored, varicoloured


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