单词 | bird skin |
释义 | > as lemmasbird skin a. General use as a modifier with the sense ‘of, involving, or relating to birds’, as in bird book, bird chorus, bird claw, bird flight, bird migration, bird skin, etc. [Compare earlier use in surnames, as Rob Bridebek (1275), Henry Bryddetung (1298).] ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > skin with hair attached or fur > [noun] > of bird bird skin1778 the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > toe or claw clawa700 toec1386 palma1425 pawc1440 talon1486 spur1548 heel1631 heel spur1871 pinion-claw1884 bird claw1889 the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [noun] > migration migrationa1633 passage1747 migrating1815 bird migration1908 abmigration1923 society > communication > book > kind of book > [noun] > book about birds bird book1989 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. vii. 302 Pullarius..went back to Rome to take the Auspicium [or the presage by the bird-flight] again. 1778 J. Cook Jrnl. 26 Oct. (1967) III. ii. 1142 Their dress consists of a bird skin Frock. 1861 E. Melena tr. G. Garibaldi Recoll. vii. 151 The twitter of an harmonious bird chorus, coming from the dark trees of the ‘Promenade des Maronniers’, was the only sound that fell upon my ear. 1881 A. Leslie tr. A. E. Nordenskiöld Voy. Vega II. xi. 42 The acquaintance I had made..with the bird-world of the high north. 1889 W. B. Yeats Wanderings of Oisin iii. 38 Golden the nails of his bird-claws. 1904 W. H. Hudson Green Mansions iii. 41 Hearing nothing except the usual bird voices. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 1 Feb. 16/1 The bird-migration routes. 1978 Audubon Jan. 63/1 The memorial was thickly whitened with bird droppings. 1986 P. Fuller Marches Past (1991) 93 I imagine my father is ticking off the 8,798 bird species of the world. 1989 I. Frazier Great Plains i. 14 Birds with long curved bills (Hudsonian godwits, the bird book said) flew just above us. 2010 Daily Tel. 16 Nov. 2/6 Police have charged a man over the theft of 299 rare bird skins from the Natural History Museum at Tring. < as lemmas |
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