单词 | shriek-owl |
释义 | † shriek-owln. Obsolete. The screech-owl. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Strigiformes or owl > [noun] > family Tytonidae > tyto alba (barn owl) shritch?a1500 scritch owl1510 shritch-owl1538 strich1552 screech owl1567 shriek-owl1567 madge?1576 lich-owl1585 lich-fowl1611 jill-hooter1668 white owl1672 barn owl1674 church owl1678 aluco1753 padge1848 cherubim1864 squinch-owl1880 monkey-facec1940 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 94 A certaine Shrickowle or Owlet which when she crieth, she shricketh. 1591 E. Spenser Teares of Muses in Complaints 283 Fowle Goblins and Shriekowles, With fearfull howling do all places fill. 1616 T. Scot 2nd Pt. Philomythie sig. B4v The Rauen & Shreikeowle there did build their neasts. 1623 J. Wodroephe Spared Houres Souldier 399/2 Wee are with Men our Brothers, and not with Stockes, Wood, Wolues and Scrick-Ooles. a1764 R. Lloyd Progr. Envy in Poet. Wks. (1774) I. 145 Shriek-owls and ravens, whose fell croaking bodes Approaching death to miserable wight. 1913 Sir R. Ross in Eng. Rev. Sept. 168 No sound; Save haply the shriek-owl cryes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < |
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