Word of the Day: Bird
bird / bərd
noun
- any warm-blooded vertebrate in the class Aves having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, covered with feathers, a beak with no teeth, and bearing its young in a hard-shelled egg
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali, 1904-1989
- a fowl or game animal with feathers and wings
Pheasants are one of the oldest game birds recorded in history and are populous throughout the world.
Gene Gerrard, ?-
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- slang, a peculiar person
In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by…[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society.
from ‘Republic: The Theatre of the Mind’ by Plato, 428/427 BCE or 424/423 BCE-348/347 BCE
verb
- to observe warm-blooded, feathered creatures
Throughout his life, John James Audubon was a naturalist, ornithologist and artist, and his contributions to modern birding cannot be overestimated.