(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 2:00:05

Pie"bald` (?), a. [Pie the party-colored bird + bald.]

1.

Having spots and patches of black and white, or other colors; mottled; pied.

"A piebald steed of Thracian strain."

Dryden.

2.

Fig.: Mixed.

"Piebald languages."

Hudibras.

 

© Webster 1913.

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