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Definition of Birdlike
1. a. Resembling a bird.
Definition of Birdlike
1. Adjective. Similar to a bird ¹
2. Adjective. Similar to that of a bird; as, a '''birdlike''' song, '''birdlike''' eyes ¹
3. Adverb. (context: postpositive) In the manner of a bird; as, to fly '''birdlike''' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Birdlike
1. resembling a bird [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Birdlike
Literary usage of Birdlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"nil alive, breath too In birdlike heavings unto death, Night came, and Nature
had not thec; I said, ' We are mates in misery. ..."
2. The Poets of Essex County, Massachusetts by Sidney Perley (1889)
"For me the rose is never over-blown, The sparrow mute, though winter tarries
long; More truly living round my pathway throng These birdlike guests from ..."
3. A Cyclopedia of the Literature of Amateur Journalism by Truman Joseph Spencer (1891)
"High in the mid-air hell there circled round Vast, misty, birdlike shapes, seeking
to flee The cursed coast, the sentient enmity Of the gray sea's sardonic ..."
4. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, Alice Werner (1916)
"birdlike DEITY FROM ETOWAH MOUND Copper plate found in Etowah Mound, Georgia,
representing a birdlike Deity. Now in the United States National Museum, ..."
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