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Meaning Of 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.
v. t.
To smear with birdlime; to catch with birdlime; to
insnare.