Piece

Definition of Piece

A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, 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.

A definite portion or quantity, as of goods or work; as, a piece of broadcloth; a piece of wall paper.

Any one thing conceived of as apart from other things of the same kind; an individual article; a distinct single effort of a series; a definite performance

An individual; - applied to a person as being of a certain nature or quality; often, but not always, used slightingly or in contempt.

Thy mother was a piece of virtue.

- Shak.

His own spirit is as unsettled a piece as there is in all the world.

- Coleridge.

(Chess) One of the superior men, distinguished from a pawn.

A castle; a fortified building.

Of a piece
of the same sort, as if taken from the same whole; like; - sometimes followed by with.

Piece of eight
the Spanish piaster, formerly divided into eight reals. - Dryden.

To give a piece of one's mind to
to speak plainly, bluntly, or severely to (another).

Piece broker
one who buys shreds and remnants of cloth to sell again. - Thackeray.

Piece goods
goods usually sold by pieces or fixed portions, as shirtings, calicoes, sheetings, and the like.

v. t.

To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; as, to piece a garment; - often with out.

[imp. & p. p. Pieced ; p. pr. & vb. n. Piecing .]

To unite; to join; to combine.

His adversaries . . . pieced themselves together in a joint opposition against him.

- Fuller.

v. i.

To unite by a coalescence of parts; to fit together; to join.

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