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Definition of Canary seed
1. Noun. A mixture of seeds used to feed caged birds.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canary Seed
Literary usage of Canary seed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information: Concerning Remarkable Men ...by William Hone by William Hone (1841)
"They may soon be brought to eat canary seed, which is more wholesome.* There sat
upon the linden-tree A bird, and sang its strain ; Si sweet it Rung, that, ..."
2. The New Century Home Book: A Mentor for Home Life in All Its Phases; a by Frank A. DePuy (1900)
"German rape seed and canary seed, in equal parts and well mixed, should be the
staple food the year round. Be careful that the rape seed is not adulterated ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Almost all of these are com paratively easy to treat in captivity, the larger
ones being fed on maize, sunflower-seed, hemp, dari, oats, canary-seed, ..."
4. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Kent: With Observations on by John Boys (1805)
"canary seed.—There are three kinds of tilths for this crop; viz. summer-fallow,
bean.stubble, and clover- lay ; the last the best. ..."
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