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Owl   /aʊl/   Listen
Owl

noun
1.
Nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes.  Synonyms: bird of Minerva, bird of night, hooter.



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"Owl" Quotes from Famous Books



... Somewhere away in the night an owl hooted, and Nap turned his head sharply, as one accustomed to take note of every sound. A while longer he stood, seeming to listen, every limb alert and tense, then swiftly he wheeled and gazed full at the drooping woman's figure ...
— The Knave of Diamonds • Ethel May Dell

... simple supper at an "Owl" lunch-cart, totally unaware that, across the street, a couple of Cosmos men were waiting for him to come out. And, after this, buying a Socialist paper, he strolled into Evans Park to sit and read, a while, by the red light of ...
— The Air Trust • George Allan England

... earnestly at one another. Outside, somewhere in the woodland, there sounded the haunting gush of a night-bird's song, shivering through the quietness like a silver bell. The sweet note finished in a frightened squawk, and was followed by the cry of an owl. The ...
— The Hand in the Dark • Arthur J. Rees

... suited for country houses, where every man would enjoy his company, and every woman would adore him. He had not then published "Piccadilly"; perhaps he was writing it; while, like all the young men about the Foreign Office, he contributed to The Owl. ...
— The Education of Henry Adams • Henry Adams

... across country by means of by-paths, in order to reach the spot where, according to the map and compass, I thought Vayrac ought to be. I came to a seventeenth century country-house, large enough to be termed a chteau, but now the dwelling of some peasant-farmer. It was a dilapidated, apparently owl-haunted building, with a dovecote tower over grown with ivy, and was half surrounded by a wall, whose tottering, ornamental pinnacles told a story of comparative grandeur that had come to grief in this remote spot. ...
— Two Summers in Guyenne • Edward Harrison Barker


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