subs. (rhyming slang).—1. Time.
2. (old).—A thief. As adj. = thievish; LIME-FINGERED (q.v.) and as verb = to steal; to purloin; to CONVEY (q.v.).
1705. VANBRUGH, The Confederacy, v., 2. That BIRDLIME there stole it.
1705. VANBRUGH, The Confederacy, iii., 2. My rogue of a son has laid his BIRDLIME fingers on’t.
1809. MALKIN, Gil Blas [ROUTLEDGE], 37. I went … spending … all the loose cash remaining from the rape of my Indian princess; for we had both of us BIRD-LIMED our fingers at our departure.
