Dictionary entry

Pied (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

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. — Pied flycatcher(Zoöl.), a common European flycatcher (Ficedula atricapilla). The male is black and white.