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Any species of very small woodpeckers of the genus Picumnus and allied genera. Their tail feathers are not stiff and sharp at the tips, as in ordinary woodpeckers.

A genus of woodpeckers, including some of the common American and European species.

To deal in trifles; to concern one's self with trivial matters rather than with those that are important. Ascham.

One who piddles.

trivial; frivolous; paltry; -- applied to persons and things. The ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes. Milton.

Any species of Pholas; a pholad. See Pholas.

n article of food consisting of paste baked with something in it or under it; as, chicken pie; venison pie; mince pie; apple pie; pumpkin pie.

Having spots and patches of black and white, or other colors; mottled; pied. "A piebald steed of Thracian strain." Dryden.

, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piece of sugar; to break in pieces. Bring it out piece by piece. Ezek. xxiv. 6.

Not made of pieces; whole; entire.

In pieces; piecemeal. [Obs.]

In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson.

Divided into pieces.

Same as Piecer, 2.

One who pieces; a patcher.

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.

imp. & p. p. of Pi, or Pie, v.

Noting the region of foothills near the base of a mountain chain.

A manganesian kind of epidote, from Piedmont. See Epidote.

The state of being pied. Shak.