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bird

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1. bird - Noun

2. bird - Adjective

3. bird - Verb

4. Bird - Proper noun

Meaning

Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2).

A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See Aves.

Specifically, among sportsmen, a game bird.

Fig.: A girl; a maiden.

To catch or shoot birds.

Hence: To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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A man without ambition is like a bird without wings. Salvador Dalí

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. William Blake

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first. Ernest Hemingway

Smart bird gets trapped in its beak. Azerbaijani Proverb

Every bird sings as it is beaked. Dutch Proverb

A good bird begins chirping while in the egg. Greek Proverb

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