piedness

English

Etymology

pied +‎ -ness

Noun

piedness (uncountable)

1. The state of being pied.
   • 1972, The Complete Signet Classic Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, act IV scene IV: 102-104:

     "For I have heard it said,

     There is an art, which in their piedness shares

     With great creating Nature."

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “piedness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• despines, dispense