These 17 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Bird Lime, Bird Seed, Birde.
a substance whitish and limy in appearance; used, as its name imports, for capturing birds. It is, in general, manufactured from the bark of the holly, though the berries of the mistletoe, and also the bark, boiled in water, beaten in a mortar, and then mashed, may also be employed for the purpose.
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seed for feeding cage birds, especially the seed of phalaris canariensis, or canary grass.
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the eye or eyes of a bird. In botany, the name of several plants with small, bright, usually blue, flowers. (1) A widely diffused name for veronica chamædrys. (2) A name for a plant, called more fully the birdseye primrose. It is the primula farinosa. It has pale lilac flowers with a yellow eye. The whole plant is powdered with a substance smelling like musk. It grows in the milder temperate climates of Europe. The American flower bearing the same common name is of a different species, being called by botanists primula pusilla. (3) A name sometimes given to the adonis autumnalis, and, indeed, to the whole genus adonis, more commonly designated "pheasant's eye."
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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.
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curled maple, the wood of the sugar maple when full of little knotty kn spots, somewhat resembling birds' eyes, much used in cabinet work.
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the representation of any scene as it would appear if seen from a considerable elevation right above.
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a common name for several plants, especially papilionaceous plants of the genus ornithopus, their legumes being articulated, cylindrical, and bent in like a claw.
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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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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.
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a name applied to gigantic spiders of the genera mygăle and epeira, more especially to the mygale avicularia, a native of Surinam and elsewhere which preys upon insects and small birds which it hunts for and pounces on. It is about two inches long, very hairy, and almost black; its feet when spread out occupy a surface of nearly a foot in diameter.
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or BYRD, WILLIAM, an English composer, born about 1543; was educated at Edward VI.'s chapel; became organist at Lincoln Cathedral in 1563, and of the Chapel Royal, London, in 1569. He is best known by his fine canon, "Non Nobis Domine," and a volume of "Sacred Songs." He died in London, July 4, 1623.
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2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about other peoples, religions, or nationalities that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) It is a common belief among savage tribes that the souls of the dead are conveyed to the land of the hereafter by birds. Among some West African peoples, for instance, a bird is bound to the body of the deceased and then sacrificed, so that it may carry the man's soul to the after-world. The Bagos also offer up a bird on the corpse of a deceased person for the same reason. The South Sea Islanders, again, bury their dead in coffins shaped like the bird which is to bear away their spirits, while the natives of Borneo represent Tempon-Telon's Ship of the Dead (q.v.) as having the form of a bird. The Indian tribes of North-West America have rattles shaped like ravens, with a large face painted on the breast. The probable significance is that the raven is to carry the disembodied soul to the region of the sun.
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GENERAL SIR WIL- LIAM RIDDELL, a British soldier; born in 1865. He was educated at Clifton College and at Sandhurst. He entered the military service as Lieutenant in the Royal Scots Fusiliers in 1883 and quickly rose through the various grades until he was made Major-General in 1911. He served with distinction in the Boer War, and saw service in India. In the World War he commanded the Anzacs at Gaba Tepe, and in the last year of the war was in command of one of the army corps on the western front.
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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.
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a plateau in the duchy of Carniola, Austria-Hungary. Here, near the Fugidus, Theodosius defeated Arbogast and Eugenius in 394 includes the Roman mili- It also A. D. tary post Ad pirum.
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DAVID BELL, an American military officer, born in Huntsville, Ala., May 29, 1825; son of James Gil lespie Birney; studied law in Cincinnati, and, in 1848, began practice in Philadelphia. At the outbreak of the Civil War he entered the Union army; in the summer of 1861 was commissioned Colonel of the 23d Pennsylvania Volunteers; and was promoted Major-General, May 23, 1863. He distinguished himself in the battles of Yorktown, Williamsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and 'Gettysburg. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 18, 1864.
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JAMES GILLESPIE, an American statesman and publicist, born at Danville, Ky., Feb. 4, 1792. Though a Southern planter, he emancipated his slaves and became a prominent antislavery leader in the South, proprietor and editor of the anti-slavery journal, "The Philanthropist," etc. He was candidate of the Liberty Party for President in 1840 and 1844. He wrote "Ten Letters on Slavery and Colonization," "Addresses and Speeches," "American Churches the Bulwark of American Slavery." He died at Perth Amboy, N. J., Nov. 25, 1857.
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