单词 | night-raven |
释义 | night-ravenn. A nocturnal bird, which is sometimes identified as a night owl, night heron, or nightjar, and sometimes imagined as a distinct species. Also in extended use. Cf. night-crow n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > unspecified and miscellaneous birds > [noun] > miscellaneous night-raveneOE cold-finch1676 crane1678 diver1694 solitary1708 wheat-bird1747 yellow-bill1775 Chinese thrush1781 whidah thrush1781 tomtit1789 solitaire1797 year-bird1798 softbill1830 swift-shrike1841 scissor bird1843 seed finch1862 sea-flyer1869 stalker1872 seven sisters1873 dicky bird1879 baboon bird1883 eOE Corpus Gloss. (1890) 82/2 Noctua, naeht hraefn. eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) ci. 5 (7) Factus sum sicut noticorax in domicilio : geworden ic eam swe swe næhthrefn in husincle. OE Paris Psalter (1932) ci. 5 Ic genemned eam nihthrefne gelic. c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) ci. 7 Ich am made as þe nyȝtravin [L. nycticorax] in þe euesynges. a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) ci. 7 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 233 (MED) Made am i als nighte-rauen in houseses [that] esse. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 4531 (MED) A ratland niȝt ravyn is him to rent ȝolden. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) ci. 7 The nyght rauen bitakyns him that..fles the ese of this life, lufand the nyght of penaunce. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 94 The Nightrauen or Crowe is of the same maner of life that the Owle is. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. June 23 Here no night-ravenes lodge, more black then pitche. 1645 J. Milton L'Allegro in Poems 30 Wher brooding darknes spreads his jealous wings, And the night-Raven sings. 1673 F. Kirkman Unlucky Citizen 168 What good could I expect from my Father who had such a Night-Raven as my Stepdame was? 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 279 The lesser Ash-coloured Heron, or Night Raven. a1717 W. Diaper Let. from Gentleman in Lincolnshire (1720) 5 The curs'd Night Raven, and the hooping Owl, Disturb our Rest, and scare the guilty Soul. 1755 A. Berthelson tr. E. Pontoppidan Nat. Hist. Norway ii. 91 We have the Night Raven also here. 1771 R. Colvill Field of Flowdon in Occas. Poems 10 The sheeted ghost shall haunt thy stream, Night ravens wail with doleful scream, And birds of prey. 1811 P. B. Shelley St. Irvyne i. 17 Along the wild mountains night-ravens were yelling. 1837 R. M. Bird Nick of Woods xxix. 303 Whirring and fluttering aloft like flights of the boding night-raven. 1876 H. Suckling Ceylon II. 145 The ‘oolanna’, or devil bird of the Sinhalese, whose horrid shriek at night terrifies the natives..some think it is not an owl, but a black night-raven. 1926 V. Lindsay Candle in Cabin 113 These are kissing by candlelight, Through the terrible storm And hearing a night bird's song, The night-raven's song. 1992 Maclean's (Nexis) 28 Sept. 18 Those pesky damned night ravens screwed up the power again last night. It's tough to run a mine without power, so these mysterious birdies are actually our allies. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.eOE |
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