Dictionary Entry
Any of various birds of prey of the order Strigiformes that are primarily nocturnal and have forward-looking, binocular vision, limited eye movement, and good hearing.
Origin
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Common Phrases
Poetry examples for “owl”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The evening gnats; and there
The owl opes broad his eyes and wings to sail
For prey; the bat wakes; and the shell-less snail
Read full poem →Yet heavier far than your Petrarchan stuff--
Owl-downy nonsense that the faintest puff
Twirls into trunk-paper the while you con it."
Read full poem →Do tell when shall we make common sense men out of the owl-eyed pundits
Out of The Frog-faced stupid old God-born Pundits who lost in a fog-bank
Read full poem →Of lofty places of Thought,
Forgive the blindness of the departed owl.
Read full poem →With loud long laughter then a woodpecker
Ridiculed the sadness of the owl's last cry.
And through the valley where all the folk astir
Read full poem →And songless plover,
Hawk, heron, owl, and woodpecker.
They never say a word to her
Read full poem →Between the far
Owl's chuckling first soft cry
And the first star.
Read full poem →All of the night was quite barred out except
An owl's cry, a most melancholy cry