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n.
Any one of numerous species of finchlike birds belonging to Estrelda and allied genera, native of Asia, Africa, and Australia. The bill is large, conical, and usually red in color, resembling sealing wax. Several of the species are often kept as cage birds.
n.
A mediaeval instrument for punishing petty offenders, being a kind of wooden cage turning on a pivot, in which the offender was whirled round with great velocity.
v. t.
To loose, or release, from, or as from, a cage.
n.
A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds.
n.
A large bird cage; an aviary.
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A bird confined in a cage; esp. a young bird.
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A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil.
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A kind of basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep.
imp. & p. p.
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The practice of attracting the males of Lepidoptera or other insects by exposing the female confined in a cage.
v. i.
To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine.
n.
A coop or cage for hens.
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One of the followers of Lucifer, bishop of Cagliari, in the fourth century, who separated from the orthodox churches because they would not go as far as he did in opposing the Arians.
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A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc. ; -- called also lantern brass.
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An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase.
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A beautiful Australian parrakeet (Platycercus eximius) often kept as a cage bird. The head and back of the neck are scarlet, the throat is white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast yellow.
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A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.
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The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.
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Confined in, or as in, a cage; like a cage or prison.
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