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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: bird's-eye - birth rate</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="birdseye"> bird's-eye, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. seen from above or from a distance. Ex. a bird's-eye view of the city from an airplane. <DD> 2. general or brief. Ex. a bird's-eye view of a problem. <DD> 3. having markings somewhat like birds' eyes. <DD>noun 1a. a cotton cloth having markings somewhat like birds' eyes. <DD> b. a weave resembling birds' eyes. <DD> 2. any one of various plants with small, round, bright-colored flowers. Ex. A primrose is a bird's-eye. </DL> <A NAME="birdseyemaple"> bird's-eye maple,<DL COMPACT><DD> a maple wood full of little knotty spots, used in making furniture. </DL> <A NAME="birdsfoot"> bird's-foot, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. any one of certain plants of the pea family, whose pods are jointed and bent in like claws. <DD> 2. any one of various plants whose leaves, flowers, or pods suggest the foot of a bird. Also, bird-foot. </DL> <A NAME="birdsfootfern"> bird's-foot fern,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a small, tropical American fern whose foliage suggests a bird's foot. <DD> 2. a fern of the Pacific Coast. </DL> <A NAME="birdsfootstar"> bird's-foot star,<DL COMPACT><DD> an echinoderm related to the starfish. </DL> <A NAME="birdsfoottrefoil"> bird's-foot trefoil,<DL COMPACT><DD> a native European and Asian perennial plant of the pea family, whose pods suggest claws; babies'-slippers. </DL> <A NAME="birdsfootviolet"> bird's-foot violet,<DL COMPACT><DD> a common violet of the eastern United States, having divided leaves which suggest a bird's foot and large, pansy-like flowers. </DL> <A NAME="birdshot"> bird shot,<DL COMPACT><DD> a small size of lead shot, used in shooting birds. </DL> <A NAME="birdsnest"> birds'-nest, noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun the nest of certain swifts of southeastern Asia, composed mainly of a substance secreted by the salivary glands, used in China as an ingredient for soup. <DD>v.i. to search for or collect birds' nests, or their contents, as a hobby; birdnest. </DL> <A NAME="birdsnestfungus"> bird's-nest fungus,<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a group of fungi whose peridia resemble small nests of eggs. </DL> <A NAME="birdsnestmoss"> bird's-nest moss, =resurrection plant (def. 1).</DL> <A NAME="birdsofafeather"> birds of a feather,<DL COMPACT><DD> people of the same kind. Ex. birds of a feather flock together. </DL> <A NAME="birdsong"> birdsong, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the song of a bird. <DD> 2. the singing of birds. Ex. birdsong at morning (Robert Louis Stevenson). </DL> <A NAME="birdspider"> bird spider,<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a group of very large South American spiders, some of which live in trees and catch small birds for food. </DL> <A NAME="birdstrike"> bird strike,<DL COMPACT><DD> a collision between an aircraft and a flock of birds. </DL> <A NAME="birdwatch"> bird-watch, intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to watch wild birds; bird. </DL> <A NAME="birdwatcher"> bird watcher,<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who observes and classifies wild birds in their natural environment. </DL> <A NAME="birdwatching"> bird watching,<DL COMPACT><DD> the activity of a bird watcher; birding. </DL> <A NAME="birdwitted"> bird-witted, adjective. =bird-brained.</DL> <A NAME="birdy"> birdy, adjective, birdier, birdiest.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. resembling or suggesting a bird. Ex. Pauline made birdy, disapproving vibrations with her head (New Yorker). <DD> 2. having or filled with birds. Ex. Jake [a dog] ... has an eye and nose for the birdy spots (Newsweek). </DL> <A NAME="birefringence"> birefringence, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> double refraction. </DL> <A NAME="birefringent"> birefringent, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> characterized by birefringence. </DL> <A NAME="bireme"> bireme, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a ship with two rows of oars on each side, one above the other, much used on the Mediterranean in ancient times. </DL> <A NAME="biretta"> biretta, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a stiff, square cap with three, or sometimes four, upright, projecting pieces, worn by Roman Catholic or Episcopal clergymen on certain occasions. A priest's biretta is black, a bishop's purple, a cardinal's red. Also, beretta, berretta. </DL> <A NAME="birk"> birk, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) birch. </DL> <A NAME="birken"> birken, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) birchen. </DL> <A NAME="birkie"> birkie, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) a cocky man; a strutting fellow. </DL> <A NAME="birl"> birl, transitive verb, intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to spin rapidly, especially (among lumberjacks) to revolve a log in the water while standing on it. </DL> <A NAME="birle"> birle, verb, birled, birling.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) <DD>v.t. 1. to pour out (drink). <DD> 2. to supply with drink. <DD>v.i. to carouse. </DL> <A NAME="birling"> birling, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the act of spinning rapidly. <DD> 2. =logrolling (def. 2). </DL> <A NAME="birlinn"> birlinn, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a large rowboat, or barge, rowed by a number of oarsmen in the Hebrides. </DL> <A NAME="biro"> biro, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) <DD> 1. a ballpoint pen. Ex. Out comes the erasing, paraphrasing editorial biro ... (Listener). <DD> 2. Biro, the trademark of a particular kind of ballpoint pen. </DL> <A NAME="birotation"> birotation, noun. =mutarotation.</DL> <A NAME="birr"> birr (1), noun, verb, birred, birring.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) <DD>noun 1. the force of the wind or of a moving body; momentum. <DD> 2. vigor; might. <DD> 3. a whirring sound. <DD>v.i. to make a whirring noise; move with a whirring sound. </DL> <A NAME="birr"> birr (2), noun, pl. birr or birrs.<DL COMPACT><DD> the monetary unit of Ethiopia, divided into 100 cents. It replaced the Ethiopian dollar in 1976. </DL> <A NAME="birse"> birse, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a bristle or bunch of bristles. <DD> 2. (Figurative.) temper; rage; anger. </DL> <A NAME="birth"> birth, noun, adjective, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. the act of coming into life; being born. Ex. the birth of a baby. At birth, most babies weigh between 6 and 8 pounds. (SYN) nativity. <DD> 2. the bearing of young; childbirth. Ex. Twins are born at one birth. <DD> 3. (Figurative.) a beginning; origin. Ex. the birth of a nation, the land of our birth. (SYN) origination, commencement, start. <DD> 4. the act or process of bringing forth. Ex. the birth of a plan. We saw the birth of space travel when the first astronauts were sent into outer space. <DD> 5. natural inheritance. Ex. a musician by birth. <DD> 6a. descent; family. Ex. a man of Spanish birth. The king was a man of noble birth. (SYN) parentage, extraction. <DD> b. noble family or descent. Ex. He is a man of birth and breeding. <DD> 7. that which is born; offspring; young. <DD>adj. related by birth or blood, not by adoption or the like; biological. Ex. Parent Finders was started ... to help adoptees find their birth relatives (Maclean's). <DD>v.t. to give birth to. <DD>v.i. to bear offspring. expr. give birth to, <DD> a. to bring forth; bear. Ex. The dog gave birth to four puppies. <DD> b. to be the origin or cause of. Ex. The scientist's experiments gave birth to a new drug. </DL> <A NAME="birthcanal"> birth canal,<DL COMPACT><DD> the canal leading from the uterus through which the young of most mammals pass to be born. </DL> <A NAME="birthcertificate"> birth certificate,<DL COMPACT><DD> an authorized copy of a registrar's form giving the essential facts about a person's birth. </DL> <A NAME="birthcoat"> birthcoat, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the coat of certain animals before their first shedding. </DL> <A NAME="birthcontrol"> birth control,<DL COMPACT><DD> the control of births or of childbearing by deliberate measures to control or prevent conception; contraception. </DL> <A NAME="birthday"> birthday, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1a. the day on which a person was born. <DD> b. (Figurative.) the day on which something began. Ex. July 4, 1776, was the birthday of the United States. <DD> 2. the yearly return of the day on which a person was born, or on which something began. Ex. Tomorrow is my birthday. </DL> <A NAME="birthdayhonours"> birthday honours,<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) the titles of honor conferred by the King or Queen on each anniversary of his or her birthday. </DL> <A NAME="birthdaysuit"> birthday suit,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) one's skin; the condition or state of being without clothes. </DL> <A NAME="birthless"> birthless, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. mean; common. <DD> 2. fruitless; unprofitable. <DD> 3. lacking the advantages of high birth. </DL> <A NAME="birthmark"> birthmark, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a spot or mark on the skin that was there at birth; nevus. </DL> <A NAME="birthmother"> birth mother,<DL COMPACT><DD> a woman who gives birth to her own genetically related child, as opposed to a surrogate gestational mother who gives birth to a child from an implanted fertilized egg. Ex. The pregnant woman (the "birth mother") ... and her sexual partner choose the prospective adopters (the "adoptive parents") (New Yorker). </DL> <A NAME="birthnight"> birthnight, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the night of the day of one's birth. <DD> 2. the night of a birthday. </DL> <A NAME="birthpangs"> birth pangs,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the pains of childbirth. <DD> 2. (Figurative:) Ex. the frustration and birth pangs of a new project. </DL> <A NAME="birthplace"> birthplace, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the place where a person was born. <DD> 2. (Figurative:) Ex. Philadelphia is the birthplace of the United States. </DL> <A NAME="birthrate"> birth rate,<DL COMPACT><DD> the relationship of the number of births in a year to the total population or to some other stated number; natality. </DL> <A HREF="birthrig.dic">NEXT</A>