† bird-limev.
Obsolete.
transitive. To entangle or ensnare (a person or thing) as if with birdlime. Also: to smear or cover as if with birdlime.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > hunt birds [verb (transitive)] > catch birds > with birdlime
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1657 N. Culpeper & W. Rand tr. J. Riolan Sure Guide iv. iv. 192 There is collected, the Cholerick Excrement of the Ear, called Ear-Wax, which Bird-Limes and intangles any Dust or creeping thing that would pass that way.
a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) vi. 100 Her loath'd face..swells with paste, or of Poppaean ointment smells; It bird-limes her poor husbands lips.
1803 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) I. 195 If..any very desirable house were vacant..that would perhaps birdlime me.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021).
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