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The pied wagtail.
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A pedestal of small size, used to support small objects, as busts, vases, and the like.
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The Australian pied crow shrike (Strepera graculina). It is glossy bluish black, with the under tail coverts and the tips and bases of the tail feathers white.
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See Pedestal.
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Noting the region of foothills near the base of a mountain chain.
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The pied antelope of South Africa (Alcelaphus pygarga). Its face and rump are white. Called also nunni.
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The pied wagtail.
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A sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont, where the sect survives. They profess substantially Protestant principles.
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A duck (Glaucionetta clangula), found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American variety (var. Americana) is larger. Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America (G. Islandica) is less common.
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Any passerine bird belonging to Sturnus and allied genera. The European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) is dark brown or greenish black, with a metallic gloss, and spotted with yellowish white. It is a sociable bird, and builds about houses, old towers, etc. Called also stare, and starred. The pied starling of India is Sternopastor contra.
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The pied wagtail; -- so called in allusion to its beating the water with its tail while tripping along the leaves of water plants.
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Variegated with spots of different colors; party-colored; spotted; piebald.
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Having spots and patches of black and white, or other colors; mottled; pied.
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A variety of pyroxene, from the Mussa Alp in Piedmont; diopside.
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The state of being pied.
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The pied wagtail; -- so called because it frequents ponds.
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A duck (Camptolaimus Labradorus) which formerly inhabited the Atlantic coast of New England. It is now supposed to be extinct. Called also Labrador duck, and pied duck.
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A manganesian kind of epidote, from Piedmont. See Epidote.
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