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BIRD
Girl/Female
American, British, English
Little Bird
Boy/Male
Anglo Saxon
From Birdoswald.
Girl/Female
American, British, English, German
Little Bird; Unusual Nature; Bright
Girl/Female
English
Birdlike.
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : from Middle English bird, brid ‘nestling’, ‘young bird’ (Old English bridd), applied as a nickname or perhaps occasionally as a metonymic occupational name for a bird catcher. The metathesized form is first found in the Northumbrian dialect of Middle English, but the surname is more common in central and southern England. It may possibly also be derived from Old English burde ‘maiden’, ‘girl’, applied as a derisory nickname.Irish : Anglicization of Gaelic Ó hÉanacháin or Ó hÉinigh, in which the first element (after Ó) has been taken as Gaelic éan ‘bird’ (see Heneghan).Jewish : translation of various Ashkenazic surnames meaning ‘bird’, as for example Vogel.
Girl/Female
American, British, English, German
Birdlike; Bright
Boy/Male
English
Bird.
Surname or Lastname
English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : habitational name from Birdsall, near Malton, in North Yorkshire, so named with the genitive case of the Old English byname Bridd meaning ‘bird’ + Old English halh ‘nook’, ‘recess’.
Boy/Male
American, British, English
From the Bird Hill
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained; probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place. The surname (together with the variant Birdseye) was brought to CT from England in the 17th century.
Boy/Male
American, British, English
Bird
Surname or Lastname
German and Danish
German and Danish : metonymic occupational name for a salmon fisher or a seller of salmon, Middle High German lahs ‘salmon’.English (northeastern counties) and Danish : from an Old Norse nickname, Lax, meaning ‘salmon’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Lachs ‘salmon’, Yiddish laks, one of the many Ashkenazic surnames taken from words denoting fish, birds, and animals.
Girl/Female
English American
Little bird; birdlike.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Birdsall.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from a place in South Yorkshire named Birdwell, from Old English bridd ‘bird’ + wella ‘spring’, ‘stream’, or from Bridwell in Devon or Bridewell in Wiltshire, the first element of which may be an Old English word, br̄d ‘surging’. The surname is now very rare in the British Isles.
Boy/Male
American, British, English
Like a Bird; Variant of Byrd
Girl/Female
American, British, English
Little Bird
Boy/Male
English American
Bird.
Boy/Male
American, British, English
From the Bird Hill
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Meece.German and Dutch : nickname from the bird name mees ‘titmouse’, or a metonymic occupational name for a bird-catcher.Dutch : possibly a metonymic occupational name for a basketweaver, from Middle Dutch mese ‘(fish) basket’.Dutch : patronymic from a short form of the personal name Bartolomeus.
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n.
A fowler or birdcatcher.
v. t.
To smear with birdlime; to catch with birdlime; to insnare.
n.
Hunting for, or taking, birds' nests or their contents.
a.
Seen from above, as if by a flying bird; embraced at a glance; hence, general; not minute, or entering into details; as, a bird's-eye view.
a.
Resembling a bird.
n.
Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds.
n.
A little bird; a nestling.
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.
n.
The nest in which a bird lays eggs and hatches her young.
a.
Marked with spots resembling bird's eyes; as, bird's-eye diaper; bird's-eye maple.
n.
Alt. of Bird's-nest