PIED

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

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Etymology 1

Adjective

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.

Etymology 2

Verb

pied

simple past tense and past participle of pi

Etymology 3

Verb

pied

simple past tense and past participle of pie

Anagrams

• Diep, Pedi, pedi, pedi-, pide

Source: Wiktionary

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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

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

Pye, n.

Definition: See 2d Pie (b).

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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