Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for BIRD'CALL
BIRD'CALL, n. [bird and call.]
A little stick, cleft at one end, in which is put a leaf of some plant for imitating the cry of birds. A laurel leaf counterfeits the voice of lapwings; a leek, that of nightinitales; &c. – Encyc.
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