bird droppings

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• bird droppings —    Having bird droppings land on you is, strangely enough, considered lucky. The notion is still current, having been reported regularly in our 1998 *Superstitions Survey, but the first known reference is little more than a hundred years old:     …   A Dictionary of English folklore

• bird droppings — n pl British an adolescent euphemism for chickens hit in the sense of something derisory or pitiful …   Contemporary slang

• Bird control — is the generic name for methods to eliminate or deter pest birds from landing, roosting and nesting. Bird control is important because pest birds can create health related problems through their feces, including histoplasmosis, cryptococcosis,… …   Wikipedia

• Bird fancier's lung — Infobox Disease Name = PAGENAME Caption = DiseasesDB = 29639 ICD10 = ICD10|J|67|2|j|60 ICD9 = ICD9|495.2 ICDO = OMIM = MedlinePlus = eMedicineSubj = eMedicineTopic = MeshID = D001716 Bird fancier s lung is a type of hypersensitivity pneumonitis… …   Wikipedia

• bird dropping spider — noun A spider that mimics bird droppings to avoid predators, species Celaenia excavata …   Wiktionary

• Bird nest — For animal nests in general, see Nest. For other uses, see Bird s nest. Deep cup nest of the Great Reed warbler A bird nest is the spot in which a bird lays and incubates its eggs and raises its young. Although the term popularly refers to a… …   Wikipedia

• bird — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ wild ▪ caged ▪ exotic, rare ▪ common ▪ endangered ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• bird — {{11}}bird (n.1) O.E. bird, rare collateral form of bridd, originally young bird, nestling (the usual O.E. for bird being fugol), of uncertain origin with no cognates in any other Germanic language. The suggestion that it is related by umlaut to… …   Etymology dictionary

• droppings — noun Droppings is used after these nouns: ↑bird, ↑horse, ↑mouse, ↑pigeon, ↑rat …   Collocations dictionary

• bird-fancier's lung — a form of extrinsic allergic alveolitis caused by the inhalation of avian proteins present in the droppings and feathers of certain birds, especially pigeons and caged birds (such as budgerigars). As in farmer s lung, there is an acute and a… …   Medical dictionary

• bird-fancier's lung — a form of extrinsic allergic alveolitis caused by the inhalation of avian proteins present in the droppings and feathers of certain birds, especially pigeons and caged birds (such as budgerigars). As in farmer s lung, there is an acute and a… …   The new mediacal dictionary