noun. A sticky substance that is smeared on branches or twigs to capture small birds.

noun. Something that captures or ensnares.

transitive verb. To smear with birdlime.

transitive verb. To catch with or as if with birdlime.

noun. A viscous substance prepared from the inner bark of the holly, Ilex Aquifolium, used for entangling small birds in order to capture them, twigs being smeared with it at places where birds resort or are likely to alight.

To smear with birdlime.

noun. 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.

transitive verb. To smear with birdlime; to catch with birdlime; to insnare.

noun. A sticky substance smeared on branches to catch birds.

noun. Time; a jail term.

verb. to add birdlime to

verb. spread birdlime on branches to catch birds

noun. a sticky adhesive that is smeared on small branches to capture small birds

"It is asserted by some to possess properties fully equal to those of the I. aquifolium of Europe, the inner bark of which also yields a viscid substance called birdlime; its leaves are esteemed as a diaphoretic in the form of infusion; employed in catarrh, pleurisy, small-pox, etc."

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