owlet
Noun
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Noun
owlet (plural owlets)
- Diminutive of owl#English|owl
- 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 51-54,
- And in faith Sir unlesse your hospitalitie doe releeve us, wee are like to wander with a sorrowfull hey ho, among the owlets, & Hobgoblins of the Forrest […]
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 1,
- Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting,
- Lizard’s leg and owlet’s wing,
- For a charm of powerful trouble,
- Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
- 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fears in Solitude, London: J. Johnson, pp. 4-5,
- […] and bold with joy,
- Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place
- (Portentous sight) the owlet, ATHEISM,
- Sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon,
- Drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close,
- And, hooting at the glorious sun in heaven,
- Cries out, “where is it?”
- 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 51-54,
- A young owl; owling.
- One of a species of small owls, such as Athene noctua.
- An owlet moth.
- French: jeune hibou, (with tufted ears) jeune chouette
- German: Eulenjunges, junge Eule
- Russian: совёнок
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