1. birdlime - Noun
2. birdlime - Verb
An extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made of the middle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it. When a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small birds which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares.
To smear with birdlime; to catch with birdlime; to insnare.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime. Emil Cioran