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Webster 1913 Edition
Pied
Pied
,Adj.
[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
(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.Webster 1828 Edition
Pied
PI'ED
,Adj.
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.
Definition 2024
pied
pied
English
Verb
pied
Adjective
pied (comparative more pied, superlative most pied)
Translations
decorated or colored in blotches
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French
Etymology
From Middle French pied, from Old French pié, from Latin pedem, accusative of pes. The <-d> is a later orthographical addition based on etymology. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. Compare Catalan peu, Italian piede, Latvian pēda, Lithuanian pėda, Portuguese pé, Sardinian pei, Spanish pie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pje/
Noun
pied m (plural pieds)
- (anatomy) foot
- leg, foot (projection on the bottom of a piece of equipment to support it)
- An old unit of measure equal to 32.5 centimetres
- Translation for English foot (approx. 30.5 centimetres)
- (poetry) foot
Synonyms
- (organ): (slang) panard, (informal) peton
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