magpie

Any of various birds of the family Corvidae having a long tail and black, blue, or green plumage with white markings, and noted for their chattering call, especially Pica hudsonia, of western North America, and P. pica, of Eurasia and Africa.

Any of various birds that resemble the magpie.

A person who chatters.

One who compulsively collects or hoards small objects.

A breed of small domesticated pigeons having the head, the under side of the body, and the long flight-feathers white, and the rest of the plumage clear black, red, yellow, or blue: the line between the two colors should be sharply defined. The name is derived from the suggestion of a magpie found in the black-and-white variety.

A black-and-white costume for women in which the contrasts are very marked, the masses of color being large.

A well-known bird of Europe, Asia, and America, of the genus Pica and family Corvidœ; the Pica pica, P. rustica, P. caudata, or P. hudsonica.

The magpie-shrike.

A halfpenny.

A bishop: so called from the black and white of his robes.