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Webster 1913 Edition

Pied

Pied

,
imp.
&
p.
p.
of
Pi
, or
Pie
,
Verb.

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.
[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.

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