Birdlime

It is asserted by some to possess properties fully equal to those of the I. aquifolium of Europe, the inner bark of which also yields a viscid substance called birdlime; its leaves are esteemed as a diaphoretic in the form of infusion; employed in catarrh, pleurisy, small-pox, etc. ❋ Unknown (1863)

The common kind of birdlime readily loses its tenacious quality when long exposed to the air, and particularly when subjected to moisture; but it may be rendered capable of sustaining the action of water by the following ❋ Unknown (1863)

_Lime-twigs_ = snares; in allusion to the practice of catching birds by means of twigs smeared with a viscous substance (called on that account 'birdlime'). ❋ John Milton (1641)

a magnifying-glass, it will be seen that its threads are closely studded with minute globules of gum, which is so sticky that flies caught in the web are held in this kind of birdlime until the spider is able to spring upon them. ❋ Elizabeth Brightwen (N/A)

No, no, what you want to smear on your head is: birdlime. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And I went with him down to the lovely river, and then he said to me, ‘Look and see how I do it, and then you’ll know: I put this birdlime round this twig, and then I go here,’ he said, ‘and hide away under a bush; and presently clever ❋ Unknown (2006)

Every day boys were to be seen walking along the roads and by the hedges and ditches, catching dragonflies with birdlime. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Iland bringeth foorth all sorts of fruits, as Canaria doth: and also all the other Ilands in generall bring foorth shrubs or bushes, out of the which issueth a iuice as white as milke, which after a while that it hath come out waxeth thicke, and is exceeding good birdlime, the bush is called Taybayba. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Sometimes they catch them with a viscous birdlime that paralyses their movements. ❋ Unknown (2003)

I may say, too, it furnished fowl and other creatures as dainties, in producing mistletoe for birdlime to ensnare them. ❋ Plutarch (2003)

The bodies which do not admit of solidification are those which contain no aqueous moisture and are not watery, but in which heat and earth preponderate, like honey and must (for these are in a sort of state of effervescence), and those which do possess some water but have a preponderance of air, like oil and quicksilver, and all viscous substances such as pitch and birdlime. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Thee, now that Thou hast freed it from that fast-holding birdlime of death. ❋ Unknown (1999)

Thou wilt increase, Lord, Thy gifts more and more in me, that my soul may follow me to Thee, disentangled from the birdlime of concupiscence; that it rebel not against itself, and even in dreams not only not, through images of sense, commit those debasing corruptions, even to pollution of the flesh, but not even to consent unto them. ❋ Unknown (1999)

Gum (birdlime) for trapping birds (Tharaka) and for arrow feathers is made from latex tapped from this plant. ❋ Unknown (1999)

The fruit pulp mixed with fig-tree latex is used as birdlime. ❋ Unknown (1999)

Power snared his awareness like birdlime; fierce opposition blocked all effort to fathom the forces aligned against his inner control. ❋ Wurts, Janny (1989)

When I leaned on the rock, my blood stuck to it like birdlime. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1958)

In effect both father and son became fast to the birdlime figure, when they were stung to death by ten thousand bees. ❋ L. Higgin (N/A)

Then King Robin ordered the wolves to dig the grave, into which the monkeys rolled the man and the boy and the birdlime figure, and, after covering it up, all the beasts and birds and insects took possession of the robbers 'castle, and lived there under the beneficent rule of King ❋ L. Higgin (N/A)

Hooker: -- The fruit serves for food; clothes are made from the fibres of the inner bark; the wood is used for building houses and making boats; the male catkins are employed as tinder; the leaves for table cloths and for wrapping provisions in; and the viscid milky juice affords birdlime. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

Yeah, I've done a [bitta] bird...5 years in [Parkhurst]. In this example, [as is] most common, birdlime has been shortened to bird. ❋ MortyAndTrevor (2011)