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Piebald definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PI'EBALD, a. Of various colors; diversified in color; as a piebald horse.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Date: 1589 1. composed of incongruous parts 2. of different colors; especially spotted or blotched with black and white II. noun Date: 1765 a piebald animal (as a horse)

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. 1 (usu. of an animal, esp. a horse) having irregular patches of two colours, esp. black and white. 2 motley; mongrel. --n. a piebald animal, esp. a horse.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 2. Fig.: Mixed. ``Piebald languages.'' --Hudibras.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

A piebald animal has patches of black and white on it. ...a piebald pony. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Motley, mottled, variegated, pied, party-colored, divers-colored. 2. Diversified, mixed, heterogeneous, mongrel.

Moby Thesaurus

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