Bird

–noun

1.	any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.

2.	a fowl or game bird.

3.	Sports. a. clay pigeon. b. a shuttlecock.

4.	Slang. a person, esp. one having some peculiarity: He's a queer bird.

5.	Informal. an aircraft, spacecraft, or guided missile.

6.	Cookery. a thin piece of meat, poultry, or fish rolled around a stuffing and braised: veal birds.

7.	Southern U.S. (in hunting) a bobwhite. 3e8

8.	Chiefly British Slang. a girl or young woman.

9.	Archaic. the young of any fowl.

10.	the bird, Slang. a. disapproval, as of a performance, by hissing, booing, etc.: He got the bird when he came out on stage. b. scoffing or ridicule: He was trying to be serious, but we all gave him the bird. c. an obscene gesture of contempt made by raising the middle finger.

–verb (used without object)

11.	to catch or shoot birds.

12.	to bird-watch.

—Idioms

13.	a little bird, Informal. a secret source of information: A little bird told me that today is your birthday.

14.	bird in the hand, a thing possessed in fact as opposed to a thing about which one speculates: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Also, bird in hand.

15.	birds of a feather, people with interests, opinions, or backgrounds in common: Birds of a feather flock together.

16.	eat like a bird, to eat sparingly: She couldn't understand why she failed to lose weight when she was, as she said, eating like a bird.

17.	for the birds, Slang. useless or worthless; not to be taken seriously: Their opinions on art are for the birds. That pep rally is for the birds.

18.	kill two birds with one stone, to achieve two aims with a single effort: She killed two birds with one stone by shopping and visiting the museum on the same trip.

19.	the birds and the bees, basic information about sex and reproduction: It was time to talk to the boy about the birds and the bees.