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Bird Lime – Birs Nimrud

Bird Lime

a substance whitish and imports, for capturing birds. It is, in general, manufactured from the bark of mistletoe, and also the bark, boiled in water, beaten in a mortar, and then mashed, may also be employed for the purpose.

Bird of Paradise

the English des-

Bird Seed

seed for feeding cage birds, especially the seed of phalaris canariensis, or canary grass.

Bird's-Eye Limestone

a division of the lower Silurian rocks of North America, apparently equivalent to the Llandeilo ilo Beds, so called from the dark circular markings which stud many portions of its mass, and which have been referred to the impressions of a fucoid (phytopsis cellulosus), others regarding them as the filled-up burrows of marine worms.

Bird's-Eye Maple

curled maple, the wood of the sugar maple when full of little knotty kn spots, somewhat resembling birds' eyes, much used in cabinet work.

Bird's-Eye View

the representation of any scene as it would appear if seen from a considerable elevation right above.

Bird's-Foot

a common name for several plants, especially papilionaceous plants of the genus ornithopus, their legumes being articulated, cylindrical, and bent in like a claw.

Bird's-Foot Trefoil

the popular name of lotus corniculătus, and one or two other creeping leguminous plants common in Great Britain. The common bird's-foot trefoil is a common British plant, and is found in most parts of Europe as well as in Asia, north Africa and Australia, and is a useful pasture plant.

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Bird's-Nest Orchis

one of the orchideæ, neottia or listera nidus-avis of Linnæus. The English designation is a translation of the Latin nidus-avis. The plant is so called from having its root composed of numerous fleshy fibers aggregated in a bird's-nest fashion.

Birnam

a hill in Perthshire, Scotland; once thickly wooded, and made famous by Shakespeare in "Macbeth." It has a magnificent outlook down the Tay valley. Height, 1,580 feet.

Birnbaumer Wald

a plateau in the duchy of Carniola, Austria-Hungary.

Here, near the Fugidus, Theodosius defeated Arbogast and Eugenius in 394 It also includes the Roman mili- A. D. tary post Ad pirum.

Birs Nimrud

a famous mound in Babylonia, on the W. side of the Euphrates, 6 miles S. W. of Hillah, generally identified as the remains of the Tower of Babel.