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Definition of Bird

Bird

  1. Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2).
  2. A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See Aves.
  3. Specifically, among sportsmen, a game bird.
  4. Fig.: A girl; a maiden.
  5. To catch or shoot birds.
  6. Hence: To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.

Bird Quotations

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
David Herbert Lawrence

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali

Charlotte Bronte Quote
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
Charlotte Bronte

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Lou Holtz
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Bird Translations

bird in Danish is fugl
bird in Dutch is vogel
bird in Finnish is lintu
bird in French is oiseau
bird in German is Vogel
bird in Italian is uccello
bird in Norwegian is fugl

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