英文英文字典

英文英文字典

古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典

Birdlime的结果

Birdlime (n.)

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.

Birdlime (v. t.)

To smear with birdlime; to catch with birdlime; to insnare.