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Definition of Bird

Bird Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2). A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See Aves. Specifically, among sportsmen, a game bird. Fig.: A girl; a maiden. To catch or shoot birds. Hence: To seek for game or plunder; to thieve. Related Definitions: Among, And, Animal, Aves, Bird, Catch, Chicken, Eaglet, Feathered, Fig, Flying, For, Fowl, Game, Girl, Hence, Maiden, Nestling, Of, Or, Plunder, Provided, See, Seek, Shoot, Specifically, Sportsmen, The, Thieve, To, Vertebrate, Warm-Blooded, With, Young

Bird Quotations Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. Langston Hughes I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. David Herbert Lawrence It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. C. S. Lewis The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. William Blake Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. Victor Hugo

Bird Translations bird in Danish is fugl bird in Dutch is vogel bird in Finnish is lintu bird in French is oiseau bird in German is Vogel bird in Italian is uccello bird in Norwegian is fugl

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