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. Thy mother was a piece of virtue. Shak. His own spirit is as unsettled a piece as there is in all the world. Coleridge. a piece of cake, a task easily accomplished. a piece of work, a disparaging term for a person considered to have an excess of some undesirable quality; esp. difficult or eccentric person. Piece of ass vulgar term for a woman, considered as a partner in sexual intercourse
5. (Chess)
Defn: One of the superior men, distinguished from a pawn.
6. A castle; a fortified building. [Obs.] Spenser. 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). Tackeray. — 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.
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.
2. To unite; to join; to combine. Fuller. His adversaries . . . pieced themselves together in a joint opposition against him. Fuller.
PIECE
Piece, v. i.
Defn: To unite by a coalescence of parts; to fit together; to join.
"It pieced better." Bacon.
PIECELESS
Piece"less, a.