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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PI'ED, a. [allied probably to pie,in piebald, and a contracted word, perhaps from the root of L. pictus.]
Variegated with spots of different colors; spotted. We now apply the word chiefly or wholly to animals which are marked with large spots of different colors. If the spots are small, we use speckled. This distinction was not formerly observed, and in some cases, pied is elegantly used to express a diversity of colors in small spots.
Meadows trim with daisies pied.

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: 14th century of two or more colors in blotches; also wearing or having a parti-colored coat <a pied horse> II. past and past participle of pi or of pie

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. particoloured. Phrases and idioms: Pied Piper a person enticing followers esp. to their doom. Etymology: ME f. PIE(2), orig. of friars

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pied Pied, imp. & p. p. of Pi, or Pie, v.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Variegated, spotted, party-colored, piebald.