arabian bird

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arabian bird - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Arabian \A*ra"bi*an\, a.
     Of or pertaining to Arabia or its inhabitants.
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     Arabian bird, the phenix. --Shak.
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  Bird \Bird\ (b[~e]rd), n. [OE. brid, bred, bird, young bird,
     bird, AS. bridd young bird. [root]92.]
     1. Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a
        nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2).
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              That ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird. --Shak.
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              The brydds [birds] of the aier have nestes.
                                                    --Tyndale
                                                    (Matt. viii.
                                                    20).
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     2. (Zool.) A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with
        wings. See Aves.
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     3. Specifically, among sportsmen, a game bird.
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     4. Fig.: A girl; a maiden.
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              And by my word! the bonny bird
              In danger shall not tarry.            --Campbell.
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     Arabian bird, the phenix.
  
     Bird of Jove, the eagle.
  
     Bird of Juno, the peacock.
  
     Bird louse (Zool.), a wingless insect of the group
        Mallophaga, of which the genera and species are very
        numerous and mostly parasitic upon birds. -- Bird mite
        (Zool.), a small mite (genera Dermanyssus,
        Dermaleichus and allies) parasitic upon birds. The
        species are numerous.
  
     Bird of passage, a migratory bird.
  
     Bird spider (Zool.), a very large South American spider
        (Mygale avicularia). It is said sometimes to capture and
        kill small birds.
  
     Bird tick (Zool.), a dipterous insect parasitic upon birds
        (genus Ornithomyia, and allies), usually winged.
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