bird

[Bird]

A bird is an animal with wings, feathers, and two legs. Birds, from chickens to crows, are also warm blooded and lay eggs.

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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).

Noun
warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings

Noun
badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers

Noun
a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt

Noun
the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food

Noun
informal terms for a (young) woman

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Verb
watch and study birds in their natural habitat


n.
Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2).

n.
A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See Aves.

n.
Specifically, among sportsmen, a game bird.

n.
Fig.: A girl; a maiden.

v. i.
To catch or shoot birds.

v. i.
Hence: To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.


Bird

Bird , n. [OE. brid, bred, bird, young bird, bird, AS. bridd young bird. 92.] 1. Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2).
That ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird.
The brydds [birds] of the aier have nestes.
2. (Zo'94l.) A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See Aves. 3. Specifically, among sportsmen, a game bird. 4. Fig.: A girl; a maiden.
And by my word! the bonny bird In danger shall not tarry.
Arabian bird, the phenix. -- Bird of Jove, the eagle. -- Bird of Juno, the peacock. -- Bird louse (Zo'94l.), a wingless insect of the group Mallophaga, of which the genera and species are very numerous and mostly parasitic upon birds. -- Bird mite (Zo'94l.), a small mite (genera Dermanyssus, Dermaleichus and allies) parasitic upon birds. The species are numerous. -- Bird of passage, a migratory bird. -- Bird spider (Zo'94l.), a very large South American spider (Mygale avicularia). It is said sometimes to capture and kill small birds. -- Bird tick (Zo'94l.), a dipterous insect parasitic upon birds (genus Ornithomyia, and allies), usually winged.

Bird

Bird , v. i. 1. To catch or shoot birds. 2. Hence: To seek for game or plunder; to thieve. [R.] B. Jonson.

Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2).

To catch or shoot birds.

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Usage Examples

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Faith without works is like a bird without wings though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

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Other Usage Examples

I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?

And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing.

I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.

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