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Bird Definition–noun | 1. | any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg. | | 4. | Slang. a person, esp. one having some peculiarity: He's a queer bird. | | 5. | Informal. an aircraft, spacecraft, or guided missile. | | 6. | Cookery. a thin piece of meat, poultry, or fish rolled around a stuffing and braised: veal birds. | | 7. | Southern U.S. (in hunting) a bobwhite. | | 8. | Chiefly British Slang. a girl or young woman. | | 9. | Archaic. the young of any fowl. | |
| 10. | the bird, Slang. | a. | disapproval, as of a performance, by hissing, booing, etc.: He got the bird when he came out on stage. | | b. | scoffing or ridicule: He was trying to be serious, but we all gave him the bird. | | c. | an obscene gesture of contempt made by raising the middle finger. | | –verb (used without object) | 11. | to catch or shoot birds. | —Idioms | 13. | a little bird, Informal. a secret source of information: A little bird told me that today is your birthday. | | 14. | bird in the hand, a thing possessed in fact as opposed to a thing about which one speculates: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Also, bird in hand. | | 15. | birds of a feather, people with interests, opinions, or backgrounds in common: Birds of a feather flock together. | | 16. | eat like a bird, to eat sparingly: She couldn't understand why she failed to lose weight when she was, as she said, eating like a bird. | | 17. | for the birds, Slang. useless or worthless; not to be taken seriously: Their opinions on art are for the birds. That pep rally is for the birds. | | 18. | kill two birds with one stone, to achieve two aims with a single effort: She killed two birds with one stone by shopping and visiting the museum on the same trip. | | 19. | the birds and the bees, basic information about sex and reproduction: It was time to talk to the boy about the birds and the bees. | |
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Feeder Definition–noun | 1. | a person or thing that supplies food or feeds something. | | 2. | a bin or boxlike device from which farm animals may eat, esp. such a device designed to allow a number of chickens to feed simultaneously or to release a specific amount of feed at regular intervals. | | 3. | a person or thing that takes food or nourishment. | | 4. | a livestock animal that is fed an enriched diet to fatten it for market. Compare stocker (def. 2). | | 5. | a person or device that feeds a machine, printing press, etc. | | 10. | Also, feed. <
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