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bird-lime
▪ I. bird-lime, n. (ˈbɜːdlaɪm) [f. as prec. + lime n.] 1. a. A glutinous substance spread upon twigs, by which birds may be caught and held fast.c 1440 Promp. Parv. 50 Brydelyme, viscus. 1578 Lyte Dodoens 701 With the barkes of Holme they make Bird⁓lyme. 1697 Phil. Trans. XIX. 368 It would draw out ...
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Myoporum viscosum
The specific epithet is derived from the Latin word viscum meaning "bird-lime" with the ending -osus "abounding in", that is, "sticky" or "viscid".
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bird-limy
ˈbird-limy, a. [f. as prec. + -y1.] Of the nature of bird-lime; sticky.1658 Rowland Mouffet's Theat. Ins. 1069 They smeer it over with a birdlimy glutinous spittle.
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The Dragon (fairy tale)
sorceress's eyes, offering as reward safeguard against the talons of hawks and other -kind and free pass (carta franca) "against muskets, bows, crossbows, and "bird-lime
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belute
belute, v. (bɪˈl(j)uːt) [f. be- + lute ad. L. lutum mud.] a. trans. To cover with mud or dirt. b. To coat with lute or cement of any kind.1760 Sterne Tr. Shandy (1802) II. ix. 172 Never was a Dr. Slop so beluted, and so transubstantiated. 1837 New Month. Mag. XLIX. 524 Bird-lime, with which it belut...
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The Fowler and the Snake
A fowler is intent on preparing a snare of reeds and bird-lime, then catches sight of a thrush and inadvertently steps on the snake.
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ixolite
ixolite Min. (ˈɪksəlaɪt) [ad. Ger. ixolyt (Haidinger, 1842), f. Gr. ἰξός mistletoe, bird-lime + λίθος stone (see -lite).] A mineral resin occurring in bituminous coal, having a greasy lustre, and becoming soft and tenacious when heated.1846 Worcester cites Dana. 1868 Dana Min. (ed. 5) 736 Ixolyte.
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Cabbage Tree Island (John Gould Nature Reserve)
The tree vegetation includes, as well as the cabbage-tree palms, deciduous and sandpaper figs, native plums, and bird-lime trees. It also led to increased mortality following entanglement of the birds with the sticky fruits of the bird-lime trees which fell to the ground rather than
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belime
† beˈlime, v. Obs. or arch. [f. be- 6 + lime n.] 1. trans. To cover as with bird-lime.1555 Fardle Facions Pref. 12 When he..had with all kinde of wickednes belimed y⊇ world. a 1656 Bp. Hall Wks. (1661) II. 301 Ye whose foul hands are belimed with bribery. 2. To entangle as with bird-lime; to ensnare...
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Yangmingshan
Some medium and high-altitude plants can be found here such as bird-lime tree and hairy Japanese maple.
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limer
▪ I. ˈlimer1 Obs. (exc. arch.) Also 4–5 lymer(e, 5 lemer, lymour, -eer, 5–6 lymmer, limmer, 5, 7 lemor, (corrupt forms 6–8 levyner, -iner, lyemmer), 7–9 leamer. [a. AF. limer = OF. liemier (mod.F. limier), f. OF. liem (F. lien) leash: see lien1 and lyam.] A kind of hound, properly a leash-hound; in ...
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The Bird-catcher and the Blackbird
An alternative tradition
In his History of British Birds, Thomas Bewick says that blackbirds "readily suffer themselves to be caught with bird-lime, nooses
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gleim
▪ I. † gleim, n. Obs. In 4–5 gleyme, 6 gleme. [Connected with gleim v.] 1. Any sticky or slimy substance, as bird-lime or glue; also, rheum or phlegm.c 1440 Promp. Parv. 198/1 Gleyme or rewme, reuma. Gleyme of knyttynge or byyndynge to-gedyrs, limus, gluten, glucium. 1516 Ortus Vocab., Viscus, gleme...
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-ous
-ous, suffix repr. L. -ōs-us (-a, -um), forming adjs., with the sense of ‘abounding in, full of, characterized by, of the nature of’, e.g. cōpi-ōs-us plentiful, copious, dolōr-ōs-us full of sorrow, dolorous, fām-ōs-us famous, gener-ōs-us distinguished by descent, generous, glōri-ōs-us full of glory,...
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