BIRD
\bˈɜːd], \bˈɜːd], \b_ˈɜː_d]\
Definitions of BIRD
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2).
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A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See Aves.
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Fig.: A girl; a maiden.
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To catch or shoot birds.
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Hence: To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.
By Oddity Software
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Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2).
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A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See Aves.
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Fig.: A girl; a maiden.
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To catch or shoot birds.
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Hence: To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.
By Noah Webster.
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A warm-blooded, feathered, egg-laying animal, with wings; any small bird shot by a gunner, as distinguished from a waterfowl.
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To shoot or catch birds.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A feathered animal; a name of endearment.
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To catch or snare birds. Birds of passage, migratory birds.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A feathered animal; a chicken; a young fowl.
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To catch birds. bird-bolt, a small arrow : bird's-eye, seen at a glance; seen from a great height, as by a bird; a plant; a variety of cut tobacco : bird-cage, an enclosure of wire or wicker work for the confinement of birds : bird-catcher, one whose employment it is to snare birds : bird-like, resembling a bird : bird-lime, any glutinous or sticky substance spread upon twigs for catching birds : bird-limed, spread to ensure : bird-willed, flighty; incapable of sustained attention : bird's-eye limestone, a member of the lower silurian of N. Amer., so named from the dark circular markings studding many portions of its mass : bird-tongues, a familiar term for fossil shark's teeth : bird's-eye maple, curled maple, a species of wood used in cabinet-work.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
