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howlet dial.
(ˈhaʊlɪt, Sc. ˈhulət)
Forms: 5 howlott, -lat, 6– howlet. (Also 6 hulet, 7 houlet, 9 dial. hoolet, hulote, hullat, -et, ullet.) See also owlet.
[app. a. F. hulotte, in 16th c. hulote, a word of diminutive form, of which the stem appears to be the same as in Ger. eule, MLG. ûle, perh. altered under the influence of huer to hoot: cf. the synonym huette.]
An owl, owlet.
c1450Holland Howlat 48, I sawe ane Howlat, in haist, vndir ane holyne. c1450Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 179 Do howlott howtyn hoberd and heyn, Whan here barnys blede undyr credyl bende. 1513Douglas æneis xii. xiii. 168 Quhilk we a litil howlet cleip, or owle. 1549Cheke Hurt Sedit. (1641) 5 Why, be yee Howlets and Bats, that yee cannot look on the light? 1570Levins Manip. 88/15 An Hulet or oule, vlula. 1601Holland Pliny I. 156 Eies they haue red like the houlets. 1684Bunyan Pilgr. ii. 189, I am also as poor as a Howlet. 1820Scott Ivanhoe xxvii, That St. Withold's of Burton is a howlet's nest worth the harrying. 1828Craven Dial., Hullet, Hullat, an owl. |