Definition of: bird

(bûrd) noun
1. A warm-blooded, feathered, egg-laying vertebrate (class Aves), having the forelimbs modified as wings. ◆ Collateral adjective: avian.
2. A game bird; in England, a partridge.
3. Obs. The young of a fowl; a nestling.
4. Slang A peculiar or remarkable person.
5. U.S. Slang A hiss, or other call of disapproval, by an audience; usually in the phrases to give (one) the bird, to get the bird.
6. A clay pigeon; also, the shuttlecock in badminton.
—for the birds Slang Worthless.
—v.t. To trap or shoot birds. [OE bridd]