PIECE, n.

A-piece, to each; as, he paid the men a dollar a-piece.

Of a piece, like; of the same sort, as if taken from the same whole. They See med all of a piece. Sometimes followed by with.

The poet must be of a piece with the spectators to gain reputation.

, v.i. To unite by coalescence of parts; to be compacted, as parts into a whole.