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the genus Meligethes, family Nitidulidæ, some of which are injurious to crops. -- Flower bird (Zoöl.), an Australian bird of the genus Anthornis, allied to the honey eaters. -- Flower bud, an unopened flower. -- Flower clock, an assemblage of flowers which open and close at different hours of the day, thus indicatin…

p. p. of Fly; -- often used with the auxiliary verb to be; as, the birds are flown.

To cause to start, as a hunter a bird. Nares. To flush a joints (Masonry), to fill them in; to point the level; to make them flush.

To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings.

To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.

One of numerous species of birds that feed upon insects, which they take on the wing.

l from your neck unloose his amorous fold. Shak. Fold net, a kind of net used in catching birds.

Deeply forked, as the tail of certain birds.

ving the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds. Fork-tailed flycatcher (Zoöl.), a tropical American flycatcher (Milvulus tyrannus). -- Fork-tailed gull (Zoöl.), a gull of the genus Xema, of two species, esp. X. Sabinii of the Arctic Ocean. -- Fork-tailed kite (Zoöl.),…

One of several Asiatic and East Indian passerine birds, belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forking.

oForlese. [Obs.] The beasts their caves, the birds their neforlore. Fairfax.

The Tasmanian forty-spotted diamond bird (Pardalotus quadragintus).

temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossæ containing the nostrils in most birds.

A bird. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The friar bird; -- so called from its cry, which resembles these words.

The wishbone or furculum of birds.

Any bird; esp., any large edible bird. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air. Gen. i. 26. Behold the fowls of the air; for they sow not. Matt. vi. 26. Like a flight of fowl Scattered by winds and high tempestuous gusts. Shak.

ties or privileges; admitted to special rights; -- followed by of. He therefore makes all birds, of every sect, Free of his farm. Dryden.

An American fish; the silversides. Friar bird (Zoöl.), an Australian bird (Tropidorhynchus corniculatus), having the head destitute of feathers; -- called also coldong, leatherhead, pimlico; poor soldier, and four-o'clock. The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus. -- Friar's balsam (Med.), a…

Any small vessel on the water. [Obs.] Spenser. Frigate bird (Zoöl.), a web-footed rapacious bird, of the genus Fregata; -- called also man-of-war bird, and frigate pelican. Two species are known; that of the Southern United States and West Indies is F. aquila. They are remarkable for their long wings and powerful fligh…