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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.

Definition 2024


pied

pied

English

Verb

pied

  1. simple past tense and past participle of pi
  2. simple past tense and past participle of pie

Adjective

pied (comparative more pied, superlative most pied)

  1. Decorated or colored in blotches.
    • Burton
      pied coats
    • Milton
      meadows trim with daisies pied

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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 , Sardinian pei, Spanish pie.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pje/

Noun

pied m (plural pieds)

  1. (anatomy) foot
  2. leg, foot (projection on the bottom of a piece of equipment to support it)
  3. An old unit of measure equal to 32.5 centimetres
  4. Translation for English foot (approx. 30.5 centimetres)
  5. (poetry) foot

Synonyms

  • (organ): (slang) panard, (informal) peton

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Middle French

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Etymology

From Old French pié.

Noun

pied m (plural pieds)

  1. foot

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