BPage 151
- English Word Birdcatcher Definition One whose employment it is to catch birds; a fowler.
- English Word Birdcatching Definition The art, act, or occupation or catching birds or wild fowls.
- English Word Birder Definition A birdcatcher.
- English Word Birdie Definition A pretty or dear little bird; -- a pet name.
- English Word Birdikin Definition A young bird.
- English Word Birding Definition Birdcatching or fowling.
- English Word Birdlet Definition A little bird; a nestling.
- English Word Birdlike Definition Resembling a bird.
- English Word Birdlime Definition An extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made of the middle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it. When a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small birds which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares.
- English Word Birdlime Definition To smear with birdlime; to catch with birdlime; to insnare.
- English Word Birdling Definition A little bird; a nestling.
- English Word Birdman Definition A fowler or birdcatcher.
- English Word Birdseed Definition Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds.
- English Word Birectangular Definition Containing or having two right angles; as, a birectangular spherical triangle.
- English Word Bireme Definition An ancient galley or vessel with two banks or tiers of oars.
- English Word Biretta Definition Same as Berretta.
- English Word Birgander Definition See Bergander.
- English Word Birk Definition A birch tree.
- English Word Birk Definition A small European minnow (Leuciscus phoxinus).
- English Word Birken Definition To whip with a birch or rod.
- English Word Birken Definition Birchen; as, birken groves.
- English Word Birkie Definition A lively or mettlesome fellow.
- English Word Birl Definition To revolve or cause to revolve; to spin.
- English Word Birl Definition To pour (beer or wine); to ply with drink; to drink; to carouse.
- English Word Birlaw Definition A law made by husbandmen respecting rural affairs; a rustic or local law or by-law.
- English Word Birostrate Definition Alt. of Birostrated
- English Word Birostrated Definition Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks.
- English Word Birr Definition To make, or move with, a whirring noise, as of wheels in motion.
- English Word Birr Definition A whirring sound, as of a spinning wheel.
- English Word Birr Definition A rush or impetus; force.