'Bird tick' definitions:

Definition of 'Bird tick'

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  • Bird \Bird\ (b[~e]rd), n. [OE. brid, bred, bird, young bird, bird, AS. bridd young bird. [root]92.]
  • 1. Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2). [1913 Webster]
  • That ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • The brydds [birds] of the aier have nestes. --Tyndale (Matt. viii. 20). [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Zool.) A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See Aves. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Specifically, among sportsmen, a game bird. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Fig.: A girl; a maiden. [1913 Webster]
  • And by my word! the bonny bird In danger shall not tarry. --Campbell. [1913 Webster]
  • Arabian bird, the phenix.
  • Bird of Jove, the eagle.
  • Bird of Juno, the peacock.
  • Bird louse (Zool.), a wingless insect of the group Mallophaga, of which the genera and species are very numerous and mostly parasitic upon birds. -- Bird mite (Zool.), a small mite (genera Dermanyssus, Dermaleichus and allies) parasitic upon birds. The species are numerous.
  • Bird of passage, a migratory bird.
  • Bird spider (Zool.), a very large South American spider (Mygale avicularia). It is said sometimes to capture and kill small birds.
  • Bird tick (Zool.), a dipterous insect parasitic upon birds (genus Ornithomyia, and allies), usually winged. [1913 Webster]