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Bird

noun
1.
Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings.
2.
The flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food.  Synonym: fowl.
3.
Informal terms for a (young) woman.  Synonyms: chick, dame, doll, skirt, wench.
4.
A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt.  Synonyms: boo, Bronx cheer, hiss, hoot, raspberry, razz, razzing, snort.
5.
Badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers.  Synonyms: birdie, shuttle, shuttlecock.
verb
1.
Watch and study birds in their natural habitat.  Synonym: birdwatch.



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"Bird" Quotes from Famous Books



... confederation, which united the people of two distinct nationalities and extends over so wide a region—so far beyond the Acadia and Canada which France once called her own. But that the story may be more intelligible from the beginning, it is necessary to give a bird's-eye view of the country, whose history is contemporaneous with that of the United States, and whose territorial area from Cape Breton to Vancouver—the sentinel islands of the Atlantic and Pacific approaches—is hardly inferior to that ...
— Canada • J. G. Bourinot
... scarcely credible, but it is nevertheless a fact, that in some dwellings she may not keep a cat, a dog, or even a bird, neither may she have flowers in pots on her window-sills. She is hedged round with prohibitions, but she is expected to be superior and to abide in staid respectability on an income of less than thirty shillings per week. And ...
— London's Underworld • Thomas Holmes
... Rossitur, to whose imagination the word suggested nothing but a large water-bird ...
— Queechy • Susan Warner
... bed," she says, "which is silvered instead of gilt, rests on the backs of two large silver swans, so exquisitely sculptured that every feather is in alto-relievo, and looks nearly as fleecy as those of a living bird. The recess in which it is placed, is lined with white fluted silk, bordered with blue embossed lace; and from the columns that support the frieze of the recess, pale blue silk curtains, lined with white, are hung. A silvered sofa has been made to fit ...
— Love Romances of the Aristocracy • Thornton Hall
... of sequence. Causality in action. An atom is dissected, a belly rumbles in hunger, a star blooms into brief nova; a bird wheels in futile escape, an ice-flow impacts, an equation is expressed in awesome mushrooming shape. These are multitudinous, apocalyptic. They are timeless and equal. These are things whereby suns wheel ...
— The Beginning • Henry Hasse


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