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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Pied \Pied\,
imp. & p. p. of Pi, or Pie, v.
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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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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, calico, multicolor,
multicolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted,
particolored, particoloured, piebald, varicolored,
varicoloured]
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