adjective
definition
Having two or more colors, especially black and white.
synonyms
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Decorated or colored in blotches.
Examples of pied in a Sentence
This story is probably the historic basis of the legend of the " Pied Piper of Hamelin."
Pied wagtail The pied wagtail The Pied Wagtail is found mostly in the British Isles.
In addition to skylarks, other birds feeding on the roof have included linnet, meadow pipit and pied wagtail.
He may want to change his user name to the pied piper from now on.
It is said that the Pied Piper of Hamlyn used valerian to lure away the rats.
The thin scatter of commoner migrants included 12 whinchats between the Bill and Barleycrates Lane and a Pied Flycatcher at Reap Lane.
Also seen by a few of us Firecrest and Pied Flycatcher, Great-spotted woodpecker and a few common whitethroats.
In the early summer pied flycatchers breed and you'll see and hear several varieties of warbler including the delightful wood warbler.
Savoy French became a French province, and, although the Pied montese troops resisted bravely for four years in the face of continual defeats, Victor at last gave up the struggle as hopeless, signed the armistice of Cherasco, and died soon afterwards (1796).
Babies produced from this variety can only be a Dominant Pied or a normal budgerigar.
Pied is mainly white with brindle patches, no spots or ticking, and black eyelashes and eye rims.
Nesting suggests global warming pied flycatchers at Coedydd Aber are the latest to suggest that global warming is happening.
Some of their findings are illustrated in Figure 4. For how many female pied flycatchers did they observe mate choice decisions in the field?
Had excellent views of large hawk cuckoo here and the casuarinas around our bungalow often held a noisy flock of Oriental pied hornbill.
The giant pied kingfisher was the first thrill, and umpteen bright green bee eaters swooping low into the river to snatch dragonflies.
The thin scatter of commoner migrants included 12 Whinchats between the Bill and Barleycrates Lane and a Pied Flycatcher at Reap Lane.
Also seen by a few of us Firecrest and Pied Flycatcher, Great-spotted woodpecker and a few Common whitethroats.
Stephen's army was kidnapped by slave-dealers and sold into Egypt; while Nicolas's expedition left nothing behind it but an after-echo in the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
These matters, however, having been at length adjusted, Wellington, who in his cramped position between the sea and the Nive could not use his cavalry or artillery effectively, or interfere with the French supplies coming through St Jean Pied de Port, determined to occupy the right as well as the left bank of the Nive.
Wellington's left, under Hope, watched Bayonne, while Beresford, with Hill, observed the Adour and the Joyeuse, the right trending back till it reached Urcuray on the St Jean Pied de Port road.
Wellington, convinced that no effort to bridge below Bayonne would be expected, decided to attempt it there, and collected at St Jean Pied de Port and Passages a large number of country vessels (termed chasse-marees).
Other English names are green plover and hornpie - the latter from its long hornlike crest and pied plumage.
The other variety has a shaggy coat, generally reddish-black, though sometimes grey or pied and occasionally white.
White, pied and buff turkeys are also often seen, and if care be taken they are commonly found to " breed true."
Indeed, it would be hard to find anything less consonant with godliness and divine perfection than the pranks of this juvenile god; and if poets and thinkers try to explain them away by dint of allegorical interpretation, the plain man will not for all their refinements take these amusing adventures any the less au pied de la lettre.
In the majority of cases it appears to be pied, showing large blotches of black or brown on a white ground; the head being generally white with large black patches on the sides, most of the neck and the fore-part of the body black, and the hind-quarters white with large coloured blotches.
He believed that if he had followed the Pied Piper his leg would have got better.
The organization of the metropolitan troops by regiments is (a) 163 regiments of line infantry, some of which are affected to regional duties and do not enter into the composition of their army corps for war, 31 battalions of chasseurs a pied, mostly stationed in the Alps and the Vosges, 4 regiments of Zouaves, 4 regiments of Algerian tirailleurs (natives, often called Turcosi), i foreign legion regiments, 5 battalions of African light infantry (disciplinary regiments), &c.; (b) 12
Fred O'Connor beat a hasty retreat out the back door, looking like the Pied Piper with Donnie and Martha tagging behind, the Annie Quincy notebook under his arm.
At the Restoration the handle becomes broad and flat, the bowl is broad and oval and the termination is cut into the shape known as the pied de biche, or hind's foot.
Arloing, " Organisation du pied chez le cheval," Ann.
There are many kinds of birds, notably the megapod (Megapodius nic.), the edible-nest-building swift (Collocalia nidifica), the hackled and pied pigeons (Calaenas nic. and Carpophaga bicolor), a paroquet (Palaeornis caniceps) and an oriole (Oriolus macrourus).