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pieced, ppl. a.|piːst|
[f. piece v. + -ed1.]
1. Composed or made up of pieces joined together.
1420in E.E. Wills (1882) 42 To Robard Leget my pesid Bowe. [Ibid., A Bowe wyth-owte pecis.] 1569Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees) I. 305 Also I gyue to ffrancis walker my peaced bowe. 1601Sir W. Cornwallis Ess. ii. xxvii. (1631) 21 A pieced stuffe of divers colours of divers ragges. 1785S. Fielding Ophelia II. vi, To descend..down a pieced ladder, appeared..terrible. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. I. viii. §11 A larger number of solid and perfect small shafts, or a less number of pieced and cemented large ones.
2. Mended, patched, made up. Also fig.
1542–5Brinklow Lament. 6 b, Is Christ a peced God, or a patched Redeamer? 1609B. Jonson Sil. Wom. i. i, A poxe of her autumnall face, her peec'd beautie. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 4 Three Marble pillars..one of them is peeced for one foot.
3. With adverbs: see piece v. II.
1635–56Cowley Davideis i. 313 The infected King..started back at piec'd up shapes, which fear And his distracted Fancy painted there. 1901Daily Chron. 16 Oct. 3/3 A mere pieced-together book. |