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n 1: any of several tropical American birds of the genus Procnias having a bell-like call

n 1: warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings 2: the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food [syn: bird, fowl] 3: informal terms for a (young) woman [syn: dame, doll, wench, skirt, chick, bird] 4: a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt [syn: boo, hoot, Bronx cheer, hiss, raspberry, razzing, razz, snort, bird] 5: badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers [syn: shuttlecock, bird, birdie, shuttle] v 1: watch and study birds in their natural habitat [syn: bird, birdwatch]

n 1: any bird of the family Icteridae whose male is black or predominantly black [syn: New World blackbird, blackbird] 2: common black European thrush [syn: blackbird, merl, merle, ouzel, ousel, European blackbird, Turdus merula]

n 1: fruit-eating mostly brilliant blue songbird of the East Indies [syn: fairy bluebird, bluebird] 2: blue North American songbird

n 1: any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females [syn: bowerbird, catbird]

adj 1: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers" [syn: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny]

n 1: any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females [syn: bowerbird, catbird] 2: North American songbird whose call resembles a cat's mewing [syn: catbird, grey catbird, gray catbird, Dumetella carolinensis]

n 1: a long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below [syn: clapboard, weatherboard, weatherboarding] v 1: cover with clapboards

n 1: North American blackbird that follows cattle and lays eggs in other birds' nests

n 1: a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space [syn: cupboard, closet]

n 1: the male is bright red with black wings and tail [syn: scarlet tanager, Piranga olivacea, redbird, firebird] 2: eastern subspecies of northern oriole [syn: Baltimore oriole, Baltimore bird, hangbird, firebird, Icterus galbula galbula] 3: tropical American flycatcher found as far north as southern Texas and Arizona; adult male has bright scarlet and black plumage [syn: vermillion flycatcher, firebird, Pyrocephalus rubinus mexicanus]

n 1: a pike fitted with an ax head

n 1: a criminal who has been jailed repeatedly [syn: jail bird, jailbird, gaolbird]

n 1: common jay of eastern North America; bright blue with grey breast [syn: blue jay, jaybird, Cyanocitta cristata]

n 1: large American flycatcher [syn: kingbird, Tyrannus tyrannus]

n 1: small round bright-colored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests [syn: ladybug, ladybeetle, lady beetle, ladybird, ladybird beetle]

n 1: small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors [syn: budgerigar, budgereegah, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, shell parakeet, Melopsittacus undulatus] 2: small African parrot noted for showing affection for their mates

n 1: Australian bird that resembles a pheasant; the courting male displays long tail feathers in a lyre shape

n 1: long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds [syn: mockingbird, mocker, Mimus polyglotktos]

n 1: American warbler; builds a dome-shaped nest on the ground [syn: ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapillus] 2: small brownish South American birds that build oven-shaped clay nests

n 1: a sheath for a sword or dagger or bayonet

n 1: a bird that frequents coastal waters and the open ocean: gulls; pelicans; gannets; cormorants; albatrosses; petrels; etc. [syn: seabird, sea bird, seafowl]

n 1: any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries [syn: shorebird, shore bird, limicoline bird]

n 1: fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill [syn: snakebird, anhinga, darter]

n 1: medium-sized Eurasian thrush seen chiefly in winter [syn: fieldfare, snowbird, Turdus pilaris] 2: white Arctic bunting [syn: snow bunting, snowbird, snowflake, Plectrophenax nivalis] 3: small North American finch seen chiefly in winter [syn: junco, snowbird]

n 1: any bird having a musical call [syn: songbird, songster]

n 1: a short sleeveless outer tunic emblazoned with a coat of arms; worn by a knight over his armor or by a herald

n 1: tropical Asian warbler that stitches leaves together to form and conceal its nest [syn: tailorbird, Orthotomus sutorius]

n 1: (mythology) the spirit of thunder and lightning believed by some Native Americans to take the shape of a great bird

adj 1: furnished with or made of wood or timbers; "timbered walls" [ant: untimbered] 2: covered with growing timber; "thickly timbered ridges clothed with loblolly pine and holly"; "hills timbered up to their summits"

adj 1: too numerous to be counted; "incalculable riches"; "countless hours"; "an infinite number of reasons"; "innumerable difficulties"; "the multitudinous seas"; "myriad stars"; "untold thousands" [syn: countless, infinite, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable]

n 1: finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests [syn: weaver, weaverbird, weaver finch]

n 1: an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades [syn: helicopter, chopper, whirlybird, eggbeater]

n 1: a military recruit who is assigned menial tasks [syn: yard bird, yardbird] 2: a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison [syn: convict, con, inmate, yard bird, yardbird]

n 1: English organist and composer of church music; master of 16th century polyphony; was granted a monopoly in music printing with Thomas Tallis (1543-1623) [syn: Byrd, William Byrd] 2: explorer and United States naval officer; led expeditions to explore Antarctica (1888-1957) [syn: Byrd, Richard E. Byrd, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Admiral Byrd]

adj 1: lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating" [syn: labored, laboured, strained] 2: requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading" [syn: heavy, labored, laboured]

n 1: a criminal who has been jailed repeatedly [syn: jail bird, jailbird, gaolbird]

n 1: migratory American songbird [syn: bobolink, ricebird, reedbird, Dolichonyx oryzivorus] 2: small European warbler that breeds among reeds and wedges and winters in Africa [syn: sedge warbler, sedge bird, sedge wren, reedbird, Acrocephalus schoenobaenus]

n 1: a person who likes to be active late at night [syn: night owl, nighthawk, nightbird]