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pied

[pahyd] Pronunciation Key

–adjective

1.	having patches of two or more colors, as various birds and other animals: a pied horse.

2.	wearing pied clothing.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME; pie² (with reference to the black and white plumage of the magpie) + -ed³

]

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pi2

[pahy] Pronunciation Key noun, plural pies, verb, pied, pi·ing.

–noun

1.	printing types mixed together indiscriminately.

2.	any confused mixture; jumble.

–verb (used with object)

3.	to reduce (printing types) to a state of confusion.

4.	to jumble.

Also, pie.

[Origin: 1650–60; orig. uncert.

]

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pie3

[pahy] Pronunciation Key

–noun, verb (used with object), pied, pie·ing.

pi².

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pi² also pie   (pī) Pronunciation Key
n.   pl. pis also pies
An amount of type that has been jumbled or thrown together at random.

v.   pied (pīd) also pied, pi·ing also pie·ing, pies also pies

v.   tr.
To jumble or mix up (type).

v.   intr.
To become jumbled.

[Origin unknown.]

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pied¹ (pīd) Pronunciation Key
adj. Patchy in color; splotched or piebald.

[Middle English, from pie, magpie; see pie².]

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pied² (pīd) Pronunciation Key
v. Printing
Past tense and past participle of pi².

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pied

1382, as if it were the pp. of a verb form of M.E. noun pie "magpie" (see pie (2)), in ref. to the bird's black and white plumage. Earliest use is in reference to the pyed freres, an order of friars who wore black and white. Also in pied piper (1845, in Browning's poem based on the Ger. legend; used allusively from 1942).

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pied
adjective
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]

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Pied

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.]

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Pied

Pied\, imp. & p. p. of Pi, or Pie, v.

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