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piended

piended adjective: describes something that has one or more piends.

Adjective

piended (comparative more piended, superlative most piended)

  1. Describes something that has one or more piends.
    • The wall head is finished with a stone cornice, over which is a dado course, having a carved design wrought on face where over staircase wings, and cut stone finials are placed at each piended angle of the staircases.1876 August 13, “ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING LOCAL PUBLIC WORKS 1876.”, in THE BRITISH ARCHITECT AND Northern Engineer a Record of the Constructive Arts and Organ of the Building and Mining...
    • There are other kinds of hewing also adopted in dressing of stone, such as scabbled, striped, grooved, fluted and piended.1917, Frederick Thomas Hodgson, Builders' Reliable Estimator and Contractors' Guide: A Complete Guide for Pricing All Builders' Work, Chicago, Ill: Sears, Roebuck & Company, page 151

Forms of piended

comparativemore piended
superlativemost piended

Origin of piended

From piend + -ed.

Questions about piended

What does piended mean?
Piended means describes something that has one or more piends.
What part of speech is piended?
Piended is an adjective.

Words near piended in the dictionary

  1. Piemontese
  2. piemontite
  3. piemontites
  4. piems
  5. piend
  6. piended
  7. piends
  8. Pieniny
  9. Pienkuan
  10. Pienta
  11. Pientas

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