Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
bird .
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- noun Obsolete spelling of
bird .
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Examples
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This "birde" is considered as a Maharashtrian delicacy.
Vaalache Birde -Bitter Field Beans Curry Meera 2008
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This "birde" is considered as a Maharashtrian delicacy.
Archive 2008-09-01 Meera 2008
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Some other commenter on some other blog I browsed in the last hour (I forget where) described her as “more or less a dedicated Republican,” which sounds about right to me. ancak birde söyle bişey var arkdaslar Antalyaspor – Trabzonspor maçının gollerini izlemek için tıklamanı lazım buyrun saygılarımla
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But listen to the mocking birde to micking barde making bared!
Finnegans Wake 2006
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A litle birde (saith he) called the Larke, builded her neste in a Wheate field, and when the Wheate was ready to be ripped, her yonge began to fledge.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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At length, and yet not with a perfect recalled minde, I beganne to reduce and sommon together, my fearefull and distempered spirites: perswading my selfe, that I must needes haue good successe, being neere so faire and diuine an obiect, and in such a place; And so followed her on with a panting heart, more shaking than the birde _Sisura_, or a
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Oc he speweð or al ðe uenim. ðat i {n} his brest is bred. fro his birde time. drinkeð siðen inog. ⁊ tus he him neweð.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Have ye not a little birde about ye that stirs at hearing tell of so sweete a neste?
1601 Mark Twain 1872
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They shaue all their berde except the mustaches, vppon their breast wear painted the head of som birde, ant about the pappes as yt waere beames of the sune, vppon the bellye sum feere full and monstreus face, spreedinge the beames verye fare vppon the thighes.
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They shaue all their heads sauinge their creste which they weare as other doe, and fasten a small black birde aboue one of their ears as a badge of their office.
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