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A birdcatcher.

A pretty or dear little bird; -- a pet name. Tennyson.

A young bird. Thackeray.

Birdcatching or fowling. Shak. Birding piece, a fowling piece. Shak.

A little bird; a nestling.

Resembling a bird.

rmenting, 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.

A little bird; a nestling.

A fowler or birdcatcher.

Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds.

An airwoman; an aviatress. [Colloq.]

See Ant bird, under Ant, n.

A common American bird (Icterus galbula), named after Lord Baltimore, because its colors (black and orange red) are like those of his coat of arms; -- called also golden robin.

A small European flycatcher (Muscicapa gricola), so called because it often nests on a beam in a building.

A South American bird of the genus Casmarhincos, and family Cotingidæ, of several species; the campanero.

In England, a species of thrush (Turdus merula), a singing bird with a fin note; the merle. In America the name is given to several birds, as the Quiscalus versicolor, or crow blackbird; the Agelæus phoeniceus, or red-winged blackbird; the cowbird; the rusty grackle, etc. See Redwing.

A slave ship; a slaver. [Colloq.] F. T. Bullen.

The kidnaping of negroes or Polynesians to be sold as slaves.

honeysucker (Myzomela sanguineolata); -- so called from the bright red color of the male bird.

A small song bird (Sialia sialis), very common in the United States, and, in the north, one of the earliest to arrive in spring. The male is blue, with the breast reddish. It is related to the European robin. Pairy bluebird (Zoöl.), a brilliant Indian or East Indian bird of the genus Irena, of several species.…