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41Bird — Recorded as Bird, Byrd, Byrde and Bride, this famous surname is English. It derives from the pre 7th century word bridde meaning a bird, and as a surname was originally given as a nickname to one thought to bear a fancied resemblance to a bird.… …
42bird — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Any warm blooded vertebrate with feathers and wings] Syn. fowl, feathered creature, Avis (Latin), songbird, passerine bird, oscine bird, bird of prey, raptor, shorebird, seabird, wader, wading bird, waterfowl, ratite,… …
43bird — [OE] Bird is something of a mystery word. It was not the ordinary Old English word for ‘feathered flying animal’; that was fowl. In Old English, bird meant specifically ‘young bird, nestling’. It did not begin to replace fowl as the general term… …
44bird — [OE] Bird is something of a mystery word. It was not the ordinary Old English word for ‘feathered flying animal’; that was fowl. In Old English, bird meant specifically ‘young bird, nestling’. It did not begin to replace fowl as the general term… …
45bird — 1. a young female companion The word, when referring to a young woman, has also meant a mistress, as in Holman Hunt s Bird in a Gilded Cage of 1854, and, in America, a prostitute who might operate from a bird cage, or brothel: He stared …
46bird — noun 1》 a warm blooded egg laying vertebrate animal of a class distinguished by the possession of feathers, wings, and a beak, typically able to fly. [Class Aves.] 2》 informal a person of a specified kind or character: she s a sharp old bird. 3》… …
47bird */*/*/ — UK [bɜː(r)d] / US [bɜrd] noun [countable] Word forms bird : singular bird plural birds 1) an animal covered in feathers, with two wings for flying and a hard pointed mouth called a beak or a bill. Birds build nests, in which female birds lay eggs …
48bird — n. 1) game; land; migratory; tropical; wading; water birds 2) birds of passage; birds of prey 3) (usu. fig.) a rare bird 4) birds build nests; chirp, twitter, warble; flock together; fly; migrate; molt; sing; soar 5) a covey, flock of birds 6)… …
49bird — [[t]bɜrd[/t]] n. 1) any warm blooded, egg laying vertebrate of the class Aves, having feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, and a beak 2) a fowl or game bird 3) spo clay pigeon 4) spo a shuttlecock 5) sts Slang. a person, esp. one… …
50bird — 1. Young woman. Girl friend. 2. Person. Thus a funny, queer bird, etc. A strange person. 3. do bird Serve a prison sentence, bird lime Time spent in prison. 4. get (give) the bird Receive (express) the dissatisfaction of an unappreciative… …
