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owl-light
Also 9 owl's light.
[f. owl n. + light n.]
The dim and uncertain light in which owls go abroad; twilight, dusk; also (in early use) the cloud of night, the dark.
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe (1871) 67 Which drove Leander, when he durst not deal above-board..to swim to her, nor that in the day, but by owl-light. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Merry Wherry-Ferry-Voy. Wks. ii. 8/2 When sodainly 'twixt Owle-light and the darke, We pluck'd the Boat beyond high-water mark. 1675Cotton Scoffer Scoft 83 He has that won't endure the Sun, But is by Owl-light to be done. 1776Mrs. Delany Life & Corr. Ser. ii. II. 213, I must finish to-morrow, for I have written thus far by owllight. 1826J. R. Best 4 Yrs. France 332 He..arrived at Beaucaire in time to lead his ladies about both by owls-light and lamp-light. 1877Sir P. Wallis in Brighton Mem. (1892) 199 As I am now writing by owl's light, I must call a halt.
fig.1761Warburton Charge to Clergy Diocese Gloucester Wks. 1787 V. 592 The Antiquarian, who delights to solace himself in the benighted days of Monkish Owl-light. |