birdlime, lime
(noun) a sticky adhesive that is smeared on small branches to capture small birds
birdlime, lime
(verb) spread birdlime on branches to catch birds
Source: WordNet® 3.1
birdlime (uncountable)
A sticky substance smeared on branches to catch birds.
(rhyming slang) Time; a jail term, the serving of a prison sentence.
birdlime (third-person singular simple present birdlimes, present participle birdliming, simple past and past participle birdlimed)
(transitive) To add birdlime to.
Source: Wiktionary
Bird"lime`, n. Etym: [Bird + lime viscous substance.]
Definition: 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. Not birdlime or Idean pitch produce A more tenacious mass of clammy juice. Dryden.
Note: Birdlime is also made from mistletoe, elder, etc.
Bird"lime`, v. t. T
Definition: o 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: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
6 July 2024
(noun) absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent absence of the heart beat leading to oxygen lack and eventually to death
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
