Birdlime - Law Dictionary Search Results

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Belime

To besmear or insnare with birdlime...

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...

Guttatrap

The inspissated juice of a tree of the genus Artocarpus A incisa or breadfruit tree sometimes used in making birdlime on account of its glutinous quality...

Inviscate

To daub or catch with glue or birdlime to entangle with glutinous matter...

Lime twigged

Beset with snares insnared as with birdlime...

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