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Look up: bird

  1. Bird
    Birds have feathers and wings. They may be the descendants of theropod dinosaurs.
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  2. Bird
    see 'aves'
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  3. Bird
    Bird is a township in Macoupin County Illinois, USA.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  4. Bird
    Bird is British slang for a woman.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  5. bird
    [n] - the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food 2. [n] - warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings 3. [v] - watch and study birds in their natural habitat
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  6. Bird
    Vertebrate with feathers (e.g. eagle)
    Found on http://www.longman.co.uk/tt_secsci/resou

  7. Bird
    Bird (bẽrd) noun [ Middle English brid , bred , bird , young bird, bird, Anglo-Saxon bridd young bird. √92.] 1. Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2). « That ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird . Shak. » « The brydds [ birds] of the aier ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/55

  8. Bird
    Bird intransitive verb 1. To catch or shoot birds. 2. Hence: To seek for game or plunder; to thieve. [ R.] B. Jonson.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/55

  9. bird
    1. Orig, a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2). 'That ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird.' (Shak) 'The brydds [birds] of the aier have nestes.' (Tyndale (Matt. Viii. 20)) ... 2. <zoology> A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See Aves. ... 3. Specifically, amon ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  10. bird
    fowl noun the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  11. bird
    noun warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  12. bird
    birdwatch verb watch and study birds in their natural habitat
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  13. Bird
    `Birds` (class `Aves`) are bipedal, warm-blooded, vertebrate animals that lay eggs. There are around 10,000 living species, making them the most numerous tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Birds range in size from the Bee Hummingbird to the Ostrich. Modern birds are characterised by feathers, a beak with no teeth, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chamber...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird

  14. Bird
    • (v. i.) To catch or shoot birds. • (n.) Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2). • (n.) A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See Aves. • (n.) Specifically, among sportsmen, a game bird. • (v. i.) Hence: To seek for game or plunder...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  15. Bird
    (from the article `Eastwood, Clint`) ...Sudden Impact, regarded as the best of the Dirty Harry sequels. A lifelong devotee of jazz, Eastwood also directed the well-regarded Bird (1988), ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/b/68

  16. bird
    any of the 9,600 living species unique in having feathers, the major characteristic that distinguishes them from all other animals. A more elaborate ... [80 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/b/68

  17. Bird
    Bird is a English boy name. The meaning of the name is `bird` Bird,Birde Bird doesn`t appear In 2007`s top-1000 name list.The last time Bird appeared In the top-1000 was 128 years ago, In 1880. It ranked #550 In that year. . 1880 was a `top year` for the name Bird. (Based on 128 years of name history) In that year it ranked #550. Our records go
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/boys/Bird

  18. Bird
    Samuel D., Australian physician, 1833–1904. See: Bird sign
    Found on http://www.stedmans.com/section.cfm/45

  19. Bird
    Group of warm blooded vertebrate animals whose body is covered with feathers.
    Found on http://www.physicalgeography.net/physgeo

  20. BIRD
    (Bi-spectral Infrared Detection satellite) A German microsatellite satellite (mass 80 kg) designed to test new-generation, cooled infrared sensors. Built into two cameras, these sensors are used to detect fires and volcanic activity. BIRD also carries two visible-spectrum c...
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  21. bird
    Any member of a class of vertebrates distinguished by having feathers, two legs, and two wings. Birds are warm-blooded animals, and their young hatch from eggs. According to one theory, modern birds are descended from the dinosaurs. Many of the bones in a bird's skeleton are hollow to reduce the w...
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  22. bird
    bird, warm-blooded, egg-laying, vertebrate animal having its body covered with feathers and its forelimbs modified into wings, which are used by most birds for flight. Birds compose the class Aves (see Chordata). There are an estimated 9,000 living species.Birds are believed to be extant members of ...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08076


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21 November 2009

This day in history:
On 21st November 1974 the Provisional IRA plants bombs in two Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one people die and 182 are injured. A few minutes before the explosions a warning had been telephoned to the local newspaper, the Birmingham Post and Mail, but it was far too late. The first Birmingham bomb, at the Mulberry Bush pub in the basement of the Rotunda, a 20-storey office and retail complex and it exploded six minutes after the telephone warning. There was not enough time for police to clear the area. Earlier that year nine soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded on a coach on the M62 near Bradford, while two bombs in Guildford killed four soldiers and injured scores of other people. read more

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