[f. prec. sb.] trans. To smear or catch with (or as with) bird-lime. Hence Birdlimed ppl. a.
1580. Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, Englué, birdlimed.
1618. Holyday, Juvenal, vi. 100. It bird-limes her poor husbands lips.
1791. Wolcott (P. Pindar), Rights of Kings, Wks. 1812, II. 427. Some … bird-limed Fly.
1802. Southey, Lett. (1856), I. 195. If … any very desirable house were vacant … that would perhaps birdlime me.
