[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

piece \piece\, n. oe. pece, f. pi`ece, ll. pecia, petia,
   petium, probably of celtic origin; cf. w. peth a thing, a
   part, portion, a little, armor. pez, gael.  ir. cuid part,
   share. cf. petty.
   1. 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.
      1913 webster

            bring it out piece by piece.          --ezek. xxiv.
                                                  6.
      1913 webster

   2. a definite portion or quantity, as of goods or work; as, a
      piece of broadcloth; a piece of wall paper.
      1913 webster

   3. 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; especially:
      a a literary or artistic composition; as, a piece of
          poetry, music, or statuary.
      b a musket, gun, or cannon; as, a battery of six pieces;
          a following piece.
      c a coin; as, a sixpenny piece; -- formerly applied
          specifically to an english gold coin worth 22
          shillings.
      d a fact; an item; as, a piece of news; a piece of
          knowledge.
          1913 webster

   4. an individual; -- applied to a person as being of a
      certain nature or quality; often, but not always, used
      slightingly or in contempt. "if i had not been a piece of
      a logician before i came to him." --sir p. sidney.
      1913 webster

            thy mother was a piece of virtue.     --shak.
      1913 webster

            his own spirit is as unsettled a piece as there is
            in all the world.                     --coleridge.
      1913 webster
      1913 webster

   5. chess one of the superior men, distinguished from a
      pawn.
      1913 webster

   6. a castle; a fortified building. obs. --spenser.
      1913 webster

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

   piece of eight, the spanish piaster, formerly divided into
      eight reals.

   to give a piece of one's mind to, to speak plainly,
      bluntly, or severely to another. --thackeray.

   piece broker, one who buys shreds and remnants of cloth to
      sell again.

   piece goods, goods usually sold by pieces or fixed
      portions, as shirtings, calicoes, sheetings, and the like.
      1913 webster
see also:
petty of a piece piece of eight to give a piece of one's mind to piece broker piece goods 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

piece \piece\, v. t. imp.  p. p. pieced; p. pr.  vb. n.
   piecing.
   1. to make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or
      pieces; to patch; as, to piece a garment; -- often with
      out. --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. to unite; to join; to combine. --fuller.
      1913 webster

            his adversaries . . . pieced themselves together in
            a joint opposition against him.       --fuller.
      1913 webster
see also:
pieced piecing 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

piece \piece\, v. i.
   to unite by a coalescence of parts; to fit together; to join.
   "it pieced better." --bacon.
   1913 webster

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

piece
     n 1: a separate part of a whole; "an important piece of the
          evidence"
     2: an item that is an instance of some type; "he designed a new
        piece of equipment"; "she bought a lovely piece of china";
     3: a portion of a natural object; "they analyzed the river into
        three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite" syn: part
     4: a musical work that has been created; "the composition is
        written in four movements" syn: musical composition, opus,
         composition, piece of music
     5: an instance of some kind; "it was a nice piece of work"; "he
        had a bit of good luck" syn: bit
     6: an artistic or literary composition; "he wrote an
        interesting piece on iran"; "the children acted out a
        comic piece to amuse the guests"
     7: a portable gun; "he wore his firearm in a shoulder holster"
        syn: firearm, small-arm
     8: a serving that has been cut from a larger portion; "a piece
        of pie"; "a slice of bread" syn: slice
     9: a distance; "it is down the road a piece"
     10: a work of art of some artistic value; "this store sells only
         objets d'art"; "it is not known who created this piece"
         syn: objet d'art, art object
     11: a period of indeterminate length usually short marked by
         some action or condition; "he was here for a little
         while"; "i need to rest for a piece"; "a spell of good
         weather"; "a patch of bad weather" syn: while, spell,
          patch
     12: a share of something; "a slice of the company's revenue"
         syn: slice
     13: game equipment consisting of an object used in playing
         certain board games; "he taught me to set up the men on
         the chess board"; "he sacrificed a piece to get a
         strategic advantage" syn: man
     v 1: to join or unite the pieces of; "patch the skirt" syn: patch
     2: make by putting pieces together; "she pieced a quilt"; "he
        tacked together some verses" syn: assemble, put
        together, set up, tack, tack together ant: disassemble
     3: join during spinning; "piece the broken pieces of thread,
        slivers, and rovings"
     4: eat intermittently; take small bites of; "he pieced at the
        sandwich all morning"; "she never eats a full meal--she
        just nibbles" syn: nibble, pick
     5: repair by adding pieces; "she pieced the china cup" syn: patch
see also:
part musical composition opus composition piece of music bit 
firearm small-arm slice objet d'art art object 
while spell patch man assemble 
put together set up tack tack together disassemble 
nibble pick 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

551 moby thesaurus words for "piece":
   grand guignol, nachtmusik, passion play, tom show, absolute music,
   actor, adaptation, aesthetic distance, air, air varie, aleatory,
   aleatory music, alike, allotment, allowance, antagonist, antihero,
   antimasque, arrangement, art object, article, ass, assemble,
   audience success, autograph, automatic, babe, baby, bait, ballet,
   bawling-out, beat, big end, bigger half, bishop, bit, bit part,
   bite, blowgun, blowpipe, bolt, bomb, brainchild, break down,
   breeze, bric-a-brac, broad, broadcast drama, broken, budget,
   budget of news, burlesque show, butt, cast, castle, causerie,
   chamber music, chamber orchestra, character, charade, chessman,
   chick, chiding, chip, chunk, cinch, classic, clearance,
   cliff hanger, clip, clipping, closet drama, coil, coin, colleen,
   collop, comedy drama, commission, compass, compose, composition,
   computer printout, connect, contingent, copy, crack up, creation,
   critical success, crown, crumb, crumble, cue, cut, cutie, cutting,
   dame, damoiselle, damsel, daytime serial, deal, deep space,
   demoiselle, depths of space, descant, design, destiny, destroyed,
   dialogue, discourse, discussion, disintegrate, disquisition,
   dissertation, distance, ditty, divergence, dividend, division,
   document, documentary drama, dole, doll, dollop, double eagle,
   doubloon, draft, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play, dramatic series,
   draughtsman, dressing-down, ducat, duodrama, duologue, eagle,
   edited version, electronic music, end, engrossment, epic theater,
   equal share, essay, etude, examination, exclusive, excursus,
   exercise, experimental theater, exposition, extent, extravaganza,
   failure, fair copy, farness, fat part, fate, feature, feeder,
   fiction, filly, final draft, finished version, firearm,
   first approach, first draft, five-dollar gold piece, fix,
   flamethrower, flimsy, flop, fraction, fragment, frail, gal, gasser,
   gat, gather, girl, girlie, giveaway, go to pieces, gob, gobbet,
   gold piece, grotesque, guinea, gun, half, half crown, half eagle,
   halver, handgun, happening, hard money, harmonious, harmonization,
   heater, heavy, heifer, hell, helping, hero, heroine, hit, hit show,
   holding, holograph, homily, hot number, hoyden, hunk, identical,
   improvisational drama, in agreement, in harmony, in keeping,
   in pieces, incidental music, infinity, ingenue, instrumental music,
   interest, introductory study, invention, jeune fille, jill, jingle,
   junior miss, king, kitsch, knight, lass, lassie, lead, lead role,
   lead-pipe cinch, leading lady, leading man, leading woman, lecture,
   leeway, legitimate drama, length, letter, light-years, lines,
   literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary production,
   literature, little missy, lot, lucubration, lump, mademoiselle,
   maid, maiden, man, manuscript, margin, masque, master, masterpiece,
   masterwork, matter, measure, meat, meed, melodrama, melody, member,
   memoir, mend, mess, mileage, minstrel show, miracle, miracle play,
   miss, missy, mobile, modicum, moidore, moiety, monodrama,
   monograph, monologue, morality, morality play, morceau, morsel,
   museum piece, music, music drama, musical revue, musket, mystery,
   mystery play, napoleon, news item, nocturne, nonfiction, note,
   nude, nymphet, old master, opera, opus, orchestration, original,
   outline, pageant, pandect, panel show, pantomime, paper, paragraph,
   parcel, parchment, paring, parsecs, part, particle, pasticcio,
   pastiche, pastoral, pastoral drama, pawn, peashooter, penscript,
   percentage, person, personage, perspective, piece of ass,
   piece of cake, piece of meat, piece of money, piece of silver,
   piece of virtu, piece of writing, piece together, pistol, play,
   playlet, poem, portion, pound sovereign, preliminary study,
   printed matter, printout, problem play, production, program music,
   prolegomenon, proportion, protagonist, psychodrama, put together,
   quantity, quantum, queen, quiz show, quota, radio drama, rake-off,
   range, rasher, ration, reach, reading matter, rebuke, recension,
   remnant, remoteness, repeater, report, reprimand, research paper,
   restore, review, revolver, revue, ricercar, rifle, rod, role, roll,
   roll of coins, romp, rook, rouleau, ruined, run, sample,
   sawed-off shotgun, schoolgirl, schoolmaid, schoolmiss, scolding,
   scoop, score, scrap, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll,
   second draft, section, segment, sensational play, separation,
   serial, serving, sex goddess, sex object, sex queen, shard, share,
   shatter, shattered, shaving, shiver, shooting iron, short story,
   shotgun, show, shred, side, similar, sitcom, situation comedy,
   six-gun, six-shooter, sketch, skirt, skit, slice, slip, sliver,
   small share, smashed, smithereen, snack, snap, snatch, snip,
   snippet, soap, soap opera, sociodrama, sonata, sonatina, song,
   soubrette, sovereign, space, span, special article, specie,
   specimen, spectacle, splinter, spot news, stabile, stage play,
   stage show, stake, statue, still life, stitch, stock, story,
   straight drama, straight part, stretch, stride, string orchestra,
   string quartet, strip, stud, study, stump, subdeb, subdebutante,
   subteen, subteener, supporting character, supporting role, survey,
   suspense drama, swatch, tableau, tableau vivant, talk show, taste,
   tatter, teenybopper, teleplay, television drama, television play,
   ten-dollar gold piece, term paper, the same, the written word,
   theater of cruelty, theme, theme and variations, thesis,
   title role, token, tomato, tomboy, tongue-lashing, total theater,
   tract, tractate, transcript, transcription, treatise, treatment,
   trio, tune, twenty-dollar gold piece, typescript, uniform, unite,
   variation, variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show, vehicle,
   version, villain, virgin, virtu, walk-on, walking part, way, ways,
   wedge, wench, what for, word-of-mouth success, work, work of art,
   writing, young creature, young thing

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