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Fire-bird. World English Historical Dictionary

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Fire-bird. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2022. Fire-bird Also 6 fieres-bird.

1   1.  † a. A bird which stays by or hovers round the fire (quot. 1593). b. (See quot. 1865.)

2 1593.  Tell-troth’s New Y. Gift, 12. This weather-beaten fieres-bird.

3 1865.  E. B. Tylor, Researches into the Early History of Mankind, ix. 252. The story of the ‘fire-bird’ … a bird which pecked at it [a tree] and made fire come forth.

4   2.  a. U.S. A popular name of the Baltimore oriole, Icterus galbula. b. A kind of bee-eater.

5 1824.  W. Irving, T. Trav. (1849), 436. The woodpecker gave a lonely tap now and then on some hollow tree, and the fire-bird streamed by them with his deep-red plumage.

6 1856.  Bryant, Poems, Indian Story, viii.        The hollow woods, in the setting sun,   Ring shrill with the fire-bird’s lay.

7 1893.  Pall Mall G., 12 Nov., 3/1. You may watch the red fire-bird (a kind of bee-eater) as it sweeps … round the bush-grown moat of the fortress.

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