white birdn.

Brit.

/ˈwʌɪt bəːd/, U.S.

/ˈ(h)waɪt ˌbərd/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: white adj., bird n.

Etymology: < white adj. + bird n. With use with reference to Irish folklore and mythology (where birds are often associated with the other world) compare Early Irish én find, Irish éan finn ( < éan bird + finn white).

1. Esp. in Irish folklore: a white bird with various symbolic or portentous associations.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > types of mythical bird

pelicanOE

tiger1481

Stymphalid1560

roc1579

mamuque?1590

firebird1601

sunbird1616

ganzaa1633

cocklicrane1653

white bird1697

wakon-bird1778

simurgh1786

thunder-birda1827

huma1841

oozlum bird1858

lightning bird1870

jubjub1871

ho-ho bird1901

storm-bird1913

the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > other types of tern

noddya1577

egg-bird1697

white bird1697

sheep's-head gull1808

moustache tern1837

Inca tern1887

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii. in tr. Virgil Wks. 84 When the Golden Spring reveals the Year, And the white Bird returns, whom Serpents fear [L. candida uenit auis longis inuisa colubris] .

1845 tr. Vita Tripartita Sancti Patricii in G. Petrie Eccl. Archit. Ireland I. ii. iii. 332 Én find for a ġualaind..a white bird on his shoulder.

1869 Dublin Univ. Mag. Jan. 86/1 From the ashes sprung the ‘Tree of the Seven Thorns’, which remained to modern times. On its branches a white bird was continually uttering melancholy notes.

1890 W. Allingham Irish Songs & Poems 106 The monks look'd out and saw the bird, its feathers all white and clean; And there in a moment, beside it, another white bird was seen.

1940 E. Pound Cantos LII–LXXI lvi. 60 May the white birds remember this warrior.

1986 K. Raine Yeats the Initiate ii. 33 A white bird portended the death of the Pollexfens, Yeats's family on his mother's side.

2002 J. Harpur Sacred Tracks 155 Patrick..was rewarded with the sight of a consolatory angel and a flock of melodiously singing white birds.

2. The white tern, Gygis alba.

ΚΠ

1699 E. Halley Jrnl. 24 Nov. in A. Dalrymple Coll. Voy. S. Atlantick (1775) 17 This morning a Tropick bird and two White-birds like the St. Helena pidgeons flew about the ship.

1875 J. C. Melliss St. Helena 98 Gygis candida, Wagl.—White-bird. One of the most abundant sea-birds in the Island.

2007 S. Steiner et al. St Helena (ed. 2) i. 54 Considered the most elegant and beautiful of all seabirds, the fairy tern is called locally the 'white bird'.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	white bird
释义	white birdn. Brit. /ˈwʌɪt bəːd/, U.S. /ˈ(h)waɪt ˌbərd/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: white adj., bird n. Etymology: < white adj. + bird n. With use with reference to Irish folklore and mythology (where birds are often associated with the other world) compare Early Irish én find, Irish éan finn ( < éan bird + finn white). 1. Esp. in Irish folklore: a white bird with various symbolic or portentous associations. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > types of mythical bird pelicanOE tiger1481 Stymphalid1560 roc1579 mamuque?1590 firebird1601 sunbird1616 ganzaa1633 cocklicrane1653 white bird1697 wakon-bird1778 simurgh1786 thunder-birda1827 huma1841 oozlum bird1858 lightning bird1870 jubjub1871 ho-ho bird1901 storm-bird1913 the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > other types of tern noddya1577 egg-bird1697 white bird1697 sheep's-head gull1808 moustache tern1837 Inca tern1887 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii. in tr. Virgil Wks. 84 When the Golden Spring reveals the Year, And the white Bird returns, whom Serpents fear [L. candida uenit auis longis inuisa colubris] . View more context for this quotation 1845 tr. Vita Tripartita Sancti Patricii in G. Petrie Eccl. Archit. Ireland I. ii. iii. 332 Én find for a ġualaind..a white bird on his shoulder. 1869 Dublin Univ. Mag. Jan. 86/1 From the ashes sprung the ‘Tree of the Seven Thorns’, which remained to modern times. On its branches a white bird was continually uttering melancholy notes. 1890 W. Allingham Irish Songs & Poems 106 The monks look'd out and saw the bird, its feathers all white and clean; And there in a moment, beside it, another white bird was seen. 1940 E. Pound Cantos LII–LXXI lvi. 60 May the white birds remember this warrior. 1986 K. Raine Yeats the Initiate ii. 33 A white bird portended the death of the Pollexfens, Yeats's family on his mother's side. 2002 J. Harpur Sacred Tracks 155 Patrick..was rewarded with the sight of a consolatory angel and a flock of melodiously singing white birds. 2. The white tern, Gygis alba. ΚΠ 1699 E. Halley Jrnl. 24 Nov. in A. Dalrymple Coll. Voy. S. Atlantick (1775) 17 This morning a Tropick bird and two White-birds like the St. Helena pidgeons flew about the ship. 1875 J. C. Melliss St. Helena 98 Gygis candida, Wagl.—White-bird. One of the most abundant sea-birds in the Island. 2007 S. Steiner et al. St Helena (ed. 2) i. 54 Considered the most elegant and beautiful of all seabirds, the fairy tern is called locally the 'white bird'. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1697
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