Definition: pied

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

pied
     adj : 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, multicolor, multicolour,
            multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored,
            particoloured, piebald, varicolored, varicoloured]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Pi \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.]
Pied \Pied\,
   imp. & p. p. of Pi, or Pie, v.
Pied \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 (Zo["o]l.), the bontebok.

   Pied-billed grebe (Zo["o]l.), the dabchick.

   Pied blackbird (Zo["o]l.), any Asiatic thrush of the genus
      Turdulus.

   Pied finch (Zo["o]l.)
   (a) The chaffinch.
   (b) The snow bunting. [Prov. Eng.]

   Pied flycatcher (Zo["o]l.), a common European flycatcher
      (Ficedula atricapilla). The male is black and white.