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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 bird·lime /ˈbɝdˌlaɪm/
 粘鳥膠

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Bird·lime n.  An extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made of the middle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it. When a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small birds which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares.
 Not birdlime or Idean pitch produce
 A more tenacious mass of clammy juice.   --Dryden.
 Note:Birdlime is also made from mistletoe, elder, etc.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Bird·lime, v. t. To smear with birdlime; to catch with birdlime; to insnare.
    When the heart is thus birdlimed, then it cleaves to everything it meets with.   --Coodwin.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 birdlime
      n : a sticky adhesive that is smeared on small branches to
          capture small birds [syn: lime]
      v : spread birdlime on branches to catch birds [syn: lime]