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Definition of Birdlime

1. Verb. Spread birdlime on branches to catch birds.

2. Noun. A sticky adhesive that is smeared on small branches to capture small birds.

Definition of Birdlime

1. n. An extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made of the middle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it. When a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small birds which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares.

2. v. t. To smear with birdlime; to catch with birdlime; to insnare.

Definition of Birdlime

1. Noun. A sticky substance smeared on branches to catch birds. ¹

2. Noun. (''rhyming slang'') Time; a jail term. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) to add birdlime to ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Birdlime

1. to trap small birds [v -LIMED, -LIMING, -LIMES]

Medical Definition of Birdlime

1. A smear with birdlime; to catch with birdlime; to insnare. "When the heart is thus birdlimed, then it cleaves to everything it meets with." (Coodwin) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Birdlime

birding birdings birdish birdishly birdishness birdkeeper birdkeepers birdkeeping birdless birdlessness

birdlet birdlets birdlife birdlike birdlikeness birdlime (current term) birdlimed birdlimes birdliming birdling

birdlings birdlore birdly birdman birdmen birdnest birdnesting birdproof birds birds-of-paradise

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