Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An oscine passerine bird of the family Fringillidæ, so called because indigenous to the Canary islands; a kind of finch, Fringilla canaria, or Carduelis canaria, one of the commonest and best-known cage-birds, everywhere kept and bred in confinement.
- noun Same as
bird-plant .
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Examples
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Yes, it WAS the canary-bird; and Eliza saw it; and
Roundabout Papers 2006
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Sarah; and to look at the new tortoise-shell kitten basking on the kitchen hearth; and to speak to the canary-bird, which a sudden blaze from the fire had startled on its perch; and then she betook herself to the parlour.
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He had quite a fund of canary-bird anecdotes, and the pert ways of birds that picked up worms for a living afforded him infinite amusement.
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He had quite a fund of canary-bird anecdotes, and the pert ways of birds that picked up worms for a living afforded him infinite amusement.
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She smiled frequently, and was the complete canary-bird in her manner of thanking the hostess, Mrs. Dave Dyer.
Main Street 2004
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He cast one eye meditatively up to the ceiling, then he fixed it abstractedly on the canary-bird, then he rubbed his ruffled brows with a sticky hand; but really, for the life of him, he couldn't recall any injunctions concerning matches.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Various
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"I will have that one," said Josephine, after she had eyed it a moment, with her head on one side, like a canary-bird.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various
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It isn't a kitty with nice soft fur, nor a dog that will run and jump and play with them, nor a canary-bird to wake them up with his sweet songs; but it is a turtle, which the boys found trying to get across the street near their home.
The Nursery, September 1877, Vol. XXII, No. 3 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers Various
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Above, there hung a cage, and a canary-bird shouted out now and then its pleasure at the sunny day, with
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various
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You cannot, my dear Hipparchia, by any process of teaching, not even by magazine-articles, make a canary-bird into a useful barn-door fowl.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various
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