PIED (2)

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.