† howlen.
Obsolete.
= owl n.
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owleOE
howlec1430
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night owl1581
jenny-howlet1600
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c1430 J. Lydgate Chorle & Bird in Minor Poems (1840) 192 As goode an howle as a popingaye.
a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Abbot of Tungland in Poems (1998) I. 58 Wend he had bene the hornit howle.
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