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Birdlime is London Cockney rhyming slang for time.
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v. t.
To smear with birdlime; to catch with birdlime; to insnare.
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The inspissated juice of a tree of the genus Artocarpus (A. incisa, or breadfruit tree), sometimes used in making birdlime, on account of its glutinous quality.
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An extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made of the middle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it. When a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small birds which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares.
v. t.
To smear with a viscous substance, as birdlime.
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Beset with snares; insnared, as with birdlime.
v. t.
To besmear or insnare with birdlime.
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A clear, viscous, tasteless substance extracted from the mucilaginous sap of the mistletoe (Viscum album), holly, etc., and constituting an essential ingredient of birdlime.
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Birdlime, which is often made from the berries of the European mistletoe.
v. t.
To daub or catch with glue or birdlime; to entangle with glutinous matter.
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