motley, calico, multicolor, multi-color, multicolour, multi-colour, multicolored, multi-colored, multicoloured, multi-coloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured
(adjective) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
pied (comparative more pied, superlative most pied)
Having two or more colors, especially black and white.
Synonyms: nun-coloured, particoloured, piebald
Decorated or colored in blotches.
pied
simple past tense and past participle of pi
pied
simple past tense and past participle of pie
• Diep, Pedi, pedi, pedi-, pide
Source: Wiktionary
Pied,
Definition: imp. & p. p. of Pi, or Pie, v.
Pied, a. Etym: [From Pie the party-colored bird.]
Definition: Variegated with spots of different colors; party-colored; spotted; piebald. "Pied coats." Burton. "Meadows trim with daisies pied." Milton. Pied antelope (Zoöl.), the bontebok.
– Pied-billed grebe (Zoöl.), the dabchick.
– Pied blackbird (Zoöl.), any Asiatic thrush of the genus Turdulus.
– Pied finch (Zoöl.) (a) The chaffinch. (b) The snow bunting. [Prov. Eng.] -- Pied flycatcher (Zoöl.), a common European flycatcher (Ficedula atricapilla). The male is black and white.
Pie, n. Etym: [OE. pie, pye; cf. Ir. & Gael. pighe pie, also Gael. pige an earthen jar or pot. Cf. Piggin.]
1. An article of food consisting of paste baked with something in it or under it; as, chicken pie; venison pie; mince pie; apple pie; pumpkin pie.
2. See Camp, n., 5. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. Pie crust, the paste of a pie.
Pie, n. Etym: [F. pie, L. pica; cf. picus woodpecker, pingere to paint; the bird being perhaps named from its colors. Cf. Pi, Paint, Speight.]
1. (Zoöl.) (a) A magpie. (b) Any other species of the genus Pica, and of several allied genera. [Written also pye.]
2. (R. C. Ch.)
Definition: The service book.
3. (Pritn.)
Definition: Type confusedly mixed. See Pi. By cock and pie, an adjuration equivalent to "by God and the service book." Shak.
– Tree pie (Zoöl.), any Asiatic bird of the genus Dendrocitta, allied to the magpie.
– Wood pie. (Zoöl.) See French pie, under French.
Pie, v. t.
Definition: See Pi.
Pye, n.
Definition: See 2d Pie (b).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
14 January 2025
(adjective) of so extreme a degree or extent; “such weeping”; “so much weeping”; “such a help”; “such grief”; “never dreamed of such beauty”
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