pied 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}]
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}.] [1913 Webster]
Pied \Pied\, imp. & p. p. of {Pi}, or {Pie}, v. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster] {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. [1913 Webster]