birdlime

When I leaned on the rock, my blood stuck to it like birdlime.

Birdlime performed better than anything previously tested, but it was still not good enough.

Here and there in the forest, Conan had smeared birdlime on some of those branches.

Others are trapped using glue sticks made from the berries of a local tree or birdlime.

Sometimes they catch them with a viscous birdlime that paralyses their movements.

Birdlime is an adhesive substance used in trapping birds.

Hamlet describes Denmark as a prison, and himself as being caught in birdlime.

We called it goldenwood, or birdlime, or some other name in place of its true title.

The quack coughed and, his mind jogged by the term, deposited some genuine fresh birdlime on the ground.

The sale and use of birdlime is illegal in many jurisdictions but its use was widespread in older times.

That holds them like birdlime.

"Birdlime" is also proverbially sticky, hence it may be used to refer to a "sticky-fingered person" or some such.

I integra is an ingredient in birdlime, and is also sometimes planted as sacred tree.

But his lower body was held firm by a gummy snare far more tenacious than any birdlime ever manufactured by man.

In fact it is entirely true: Birdlime runs a bawdy house that features a woman named Luce as its prime attraction.

Power snared his awareness like birdlime; fierce opposition blocked all effort to fathom the forces aligned against his inner control.

Other variations include the use of a long stick daubed with birdlime that is manually placed over the bird to cause its wings to get stuck.

Birdlime was used in the manufacturing of British sticky bombs during World War II.

A viscous glue called birdlime was made from mistletoe berries and was used for lime-twigs to catch birds.

He used muslin sheet coated with a mixture of birdlime suspended in linseed oil to make the sheet impermeable.

Behind the rent veil of superstition appeared, not naked truth, as Meslier had dreamed, but the birdlime of ideologies.

They wandered into an elegant little classical temple, with a statue of Hygeia - somewhat marred with birdlime - in the middle.

If she embraces falconry, and her sparrow hawk becomes caught in birdlime, she must carefully free each feather with fingers dipped in milk.

"Lime" is birdlime, a sticky substance that was used to snare birds, and which was almost a synonym for theft (similar to "sticky fingers").

The edges of the chief's cloak were worn, and the feathers seemed to be a jumble of anything that could be netted or trapped with birdlime.