The fruit pulp mixed with fig-tree latex is used as birdlime. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
Verb (used with object) : to be birdlimed by flattery. From Dictionary.com.
When I leaned on the rock, my blood stuck to it like birdlime. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
He described the merits of deadfalls, snares, steel traps, and birdlime. From Wordnik.com. [David and the Phoenix] Reference
Thee, now that Thou hast freed it from that fast-holding birdlime of death. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions] Reference
Gum (birdlime) for trapping birds (Tharaka) and for arrow feathers is made from latex tapped from this plant. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
In effect both father and son became fast to the birdlime figure, when they were stung to death by ten thousand bees. From Wordnik.com. [Spanish Life in Town and Country] Reference
I may say, too, it furnished fowl and other creatures as dainties, in producing mistletoe for birdlime to ensnare them. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
Power snared his awareness like birdlime; fierce opposition blocked all effort to fathom the forces aligned against his inner control. From Wordnik.com. [Stormwarden]
Comes from my pate as birdlime does from frize. From Wordnik.com. [Othello] Reference
And see, it sticks like birdlime; 'twill not part. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference
Holly a necessary thing for the making of birdlime. From Wordnik.com. [A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia : of the Commodities and of the Nature and Manners of the Naturall Inhabitants : Discouered bÿ the English Colonÿ There Seated by Sir Richard Greinuile Knight In the ÿeere 1585 : Which Remained Vnder the Gouerenment of Twelue Monethes, At the Speciall Charge and Direction of the Honourable Sir Walter Raleigh Knight Lord Warden of the Stanneries Who therein Hath Beene Fauoured and Authorised bÿ Her Maiestie and Her Letters Patents / This Fore Booke Is Made in English by Thomas Hariot seruant to the Aboue-Named Sir Walter, a Member of the Colonÿ, and There Imploÿed in Discouering ; CVM GRATIA ET PRIVILEGIO CÆS. MATIS SPECIALIi. Francoforti ad Moenvm, Typis Loannis Wecheli, Svmtibvs Vero Theodori de Bry anno CIC IC XC. Venales Reperivntvr in Officina Sigismvndi Feirabendiii] Reference
Holly, a necessary thing for the making of birdlime. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II.] Reference
'Holly' a necessary thing for the making of birdlime. From Wordnik.com. [A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia] Reference
The fools! was birdlime so scarce a thing amongst them?. From Wordnik.com. [The Romany Rye] Reference
Upon inquiry, however, he found that no birdlime was to be had. From Wordnik.com. [The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains] Reference
Sometimes they catch them with a viscous birdlime that paralyses their movements. From Wordnik.com. [Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English] Reference
Call them rather chains to bind the nation, lures and birdlime such as snarers use. From Wordnik.com. [Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction] Reference
Around the cabin are placed avenues with twisted perches, also covered with birdlime. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Household Management] Reference
It bears a very slimy white berry, of which birdlime may be made, whence its Latin name of Viscus. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes] Reference
'Well, my little fellow -- you are a fine boy, ain't you?' said Mr. Minns, as happy as a tomtit on birdlime. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people] Reference
Ossaroo had other resources besides the birdlime and the battue, and he at once set to work to prepare his plan. From Wordnik.com. [The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains] Reference
Its birdlime gleams in the golden rays like the whitewash of a tall light-house, or the lofty sails of a cruiser. From Wordnik.com. [The Piazza Tales] Reference
Yet this is that wherewith the world is taken, and runs mad to gaze on -- clothes and titles, the birdlime of fools. From Wordnik.com. [Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems] Reference
The fig-leaves having been gathered to his hand, and the birdlime made ready, Ossaroo proceeded to carry out his design. From Wordnik.com. [The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains] Reference
Every day boys were to be seen walking along the roads and by the hedges and ditches, catching dragonflies with birdlime. From Wordnik.com. [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1] Reference
The mud nests crumbled and fell on the floor and the bunks, filling the air with a flutter of feathers and a smell of birdlime. From Wordnik.com. [Three Soldiers] Reference
Yet so vile a thing as a bit of birdlime subdues them utterly; and such was the fascinating power of this mean man over this worthy woman. From Wordnik.com. [A Simpleton] Reference
It was, in fact, true birdlime -- the same that is used by the bird-catchers of India, and quite equal to that manufactured from the holly. From Wordnik.com. [The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains] Reference
When birdlime is to be applied for use it should be made hot, and the rods or twigs should be warmed a little before they are dipped in it. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
“You won’t get me with that sort of birdlime, mister. From Wordnik.com. [Cargo of Eagles]
A mud like birdlime in which the wheels sank almost to the axles. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
That holds them like birdlime. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
Comes from my pate as birdlime does from frize. From Wordnik.com. [Othello, the Moore of Venice] Reference
Transparent birdlime form'd the middle. From Wordnik.com. [Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes] Reference
Sorrow is even such birdlime at my heart. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference
Nothing but birdlime, these honeyed words. From Wordnik.com. [Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives] Reference
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