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Birdlime. Like the lime That foolish birds are caught with. Wordsworth.

alled or looked for. Neither was there aught missing unto them. 1 Sam. xxv. 7. For a time caught up to God, as once Moses was in the mount, and missing long. Milton.

he gills, are traditionally said to have been caused by the fingers of St. Peter, when he caught the fish to pay the tribute. The name is applied, also, to other fishes having similar spots.

tratagem my life at home. Chapman. To reave the orphan of his patrimony. Shak. The heaven caught and reft him of his tongue. Tennyson.

ntary spider (Zoöl.), one of a tribe of spiders which rest motionless until their prey is caught in their web.

of caryophyllaceous plants, usually covered with a viscid secretion by which insects are caught; catchfly. Bon Silène. See Silène, in the Vocabulary.

ing of a noose of cord, or the like, by which a bird or other animal may be entangled and caught; a trap; a gin.

tened with spikes; stopped with spikes. A youth, leaping over the spiked pales, . . . was caught by those spikes. Wiseman.

id fluid that glitters like dewdrops and attracts and detains insects. After an insect is caught, the glands curve inward like tentacles and the leaf digests it. Called also lustwort.

shark (Scyllium ventricosum) of the west coast of North America, which takes in air when caught, and swells up like a swellfish.

ocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm. [We] caught in a fiery tempest, shall be hurled, Each on his rock transfixed. Milton.

A short fly that falls too far out to be handled by an infielder and too close in to be caught by an outfielder. [Cant]

A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket. Gen. xxii. 13.

The Adam's apple in the neck. [Obs. or R.] By the throatboll he caught Aleyn. Chaucer.

r string spread for taking prey; -- usually in the plural. As a Numidian lion, when first caught, Endures the toil that holds him. Denham. Then toils for beasts, and lime for birds, were found. Dryden.

aking game or other animals; as, a trap for foxes. She would weep if that she saw a mouse Caught in a trap. Chaucer.

An East India herring (Clupea toli) which is extensively caught for the sake of its roe and for its flesh.

and the Atlantic Ocean. It sometimes weighs a thousand pounds or more, and is extensively caught in the Mediterranean. On the American coast it is called horse mackerel. See Illust. of Horse mackerel, under Horse. [Written also thynny.]

the black art; a magician; a conjurer; a sorcerer; an enchanter. The wily wizard must be caught. Dryden.