0 a small, yellow bird that is well known for its singing, sometimes kept as a pet
1 a small, yellow bird, popular as a pet in a cage
I do think that it would make me very happy to have a dear little bird, that would know me, and turn his bright, black eyes up to me, like Mary Day's little canary.
In Italy, therefore, we find the first tame canaries, and here they are still reared in great numbers.
The canary in the green cage that hung in the window put its head on one side and tweaked a seed husk out into Philip's face, then twittered defiantly.
Then presently some of the birds fell to noise making just as you will hear canaries sing when some one whistles, or women talk when a piano commences to play.
There were all sorts of birds here, those tiny birds from the African coast one sees in the shops of the Riviera, canaries and parrots.
On the other hand, our repeated attempts to infect quails, chickens and canaries with raptor trypanosomes were unsuccessful (data not shown).
My father is gone, now begins the more delicate, more distracted, more hopeless noise led by the voices of the two canaries.
The poor immunogenicity of viral vectors such as recombinant canary pox will probably see them replaced as replicating viral vectors with greater immunogenicity are identified and characterised.
