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Lime-twigged :: Lime-twigged (a.) Beset with snares; insnared, as with birdlime..

Wetbird :: Wetbird (n.) The chaffinch, whose cry is thought to foretell rain..

Mantle :: Mantle (n.) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.

Mute :: Mute (v. t. & i.) To eject the contents of the bowels; -- said of birds.

Cockatrice :: Cockatrice (n.) A representation of this serpent. It has the head, wings, and legs of a bird, and tail of a serpent..

Accentor :: Accentor (n.) A genus of European birds (so named from their sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. In America sometimes applied to the water thrushes..

Billed :: Billed (a.) Furnished with, or having, a bill, as a bird; -- used in composition; as, broad-billed..

Ornithichnite :: Ornithichnite (n.) The footmark of a bird occurring in strata of stone.

Bird :: Bird (n.) Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2)..

Rope :: Rope (n.) The small intestines; as, the ropes of birds..

Turdus :: Turdus (n.) A genus of singing birds including the true thrushes.

Redwing :: Redwing (n.) A European thrush (Turdus iliacus). Its under wing coverts are orange red. Called also redwinged thrush. (b) A North American passerine bird (Agelarius ph/niceus) of the family Icteridae. The male is black, with a conspicuous patch of bright red, bordered with orange, on each wing. Called also redwinged blackbird, red-winged troupial, marsh blackbird, and swamp blackbird..

Homogeny :: Homogeny (n.) The correspondence of common descent; -- a term used to supersede homology by Lankester, who also used homoplasy to denote any superinduced correspondence of position and structure in parts embryonically distinct (other writers using the term homoplasmy). Thus, there is homogeny between the fore limb of a mammal and the wing of a bird; but the right and left ventricles of the heart in both are only in homoplasy with each other, these having arisen independently since the divergence

Mockbird :: Mockbird (n.) The European sedge warbler (Acrocephalus phragmitis).

Troutbird :: Troutbird (n.) The American golden plover.

Gambet :: Gambet (n.) Any bird of the genuis Totanus. See Tattler.

Length :: Length (a.) The quality or state of being long, in space or time; extent; duration; as, some sea birds are remarkable for the length of their wings; he was tired by the length of the sermon, and the length of his walk..

Vinculum :: Vinculum (n.) A commissure uniting the two main tendons in the foot of certain birds.

Whistle :: Whistle (v. i.) To make a kind of musical sound, or series of sounds, by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips; also, to emit a similar sound, or series of notes, from the mouth or beak, as birds..

Coronated :: Coronated (a.) Having the coronal feathers lengthened or otherwise distinguished; -- said of birds.

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