Pieceless to Pigmean
Pieceless
(Piece"less), a. Not made of pieces; whole; entire.
Piecely
(Piece"ly), adv. In pieces; piecemeal. [Obs.]
Piecemeal
(Piece"meal`) adv. [OE. pecemele; pece a piece + AS. mlum, dat. pl. of ml part. See
Meal a portion.]
1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman.
The beasts will tear thee piecemeal.
Tennyson. 2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession.
Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that.
Pope. Piecemeal
(Piece"meal`), a. Made up of parts or pieces; single; separate. "These piecemeal guilts."
Gov. of Tongue.
Piecemeal
(Piece"meal`), n. A fragment; a scrap. R. Vaughan.
Piecemealed
(Piece"mealed`) a. Divided into pieces.
Piecener
(Piece"ner) n.
1. One who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine in woolen mills.
2. Same as Piecer, 2.
Piecer
(Pie"cer) n.
1. One who pieces; a patcher.
2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
Piecework
(Piece"work`) n. Work done by the piece or job; work paid for at a rate based on the amount
of work done, rather than on the time employed.
The reaping was piecework, at so much per acre.
R. Jefferies. 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 (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. [Prov. Eng.] — Pied flycatcher (Zoöl.), a common European flycatcher The male is
black and white.
Piedmont
(Pied"mont) a. [F. pied foot + mont mountain.] (Geol.) Noting the region of foothills near
the base of a mountain chain.
Piedmontite
(Pied"mont*ite) n. (Min.) A manganesian kind of epidote, from Piedmont. See Epidote.
Piedness
(Pied"ness) n. The state of being pied. Shak.
