owl /owl/

1. Any member of the Strigiformes, nocturnal predacious birds with large broad heads, flat faces, large eyes surrounded by discs of feathers, short hooked beaks, silent flight, and howling or hooting cry
2. Someone who sits up at night (also night owl)
3. Someone who sees badly or who avoids light
4. A solemn person
5. An owl-like breed of pigeon
6. A wiseacre
7. A dullard

To behave like an owl

To smuggle (esp wool or sheep from England to France)

owlˈer noun (obsolete)

A smuggler (esp of wool or sheep)

owlˈery noun

1. A place inhabited or frequented by owls
2. Owlishness (Carlyle)

owlˈet noun

1. A young or small owl
2. An owl
3. A moth of the Noctuidae

owlˈish adjective

1. Like an owl
2. Solemn, esp if also bespectacled
3. Wise
4. Blinking
5. Stupid
6. Dull-looking

owlˈishly adverb

owlˈishness noun

owlˈ-like adjective

owlˈy adjective

Owlish

owlˈ-car noun (old US)

A night tram-car

owlˈ-eyed adjective

Having blinking eyes like an owl

Owlˈ-glass, Owleˈ-glass, Howleˈglass or Owlˈspiegle noun

Tyll Eulenspiegel, a mischievous clown hero of a folk tale popular in Germany from the 16c or earlier

owlˈ-light noun (poetic)

Dusk, twilight

• rivelling
• rivels
• riven
• river
• riverain
• riverains
• riverbank
• riverbanks
• river basin
• river basins
• river bed
• river beds
• river blindness
• riverboat
• riverboats
• river bottom
• river bottoms
• river card
• rivercraft
• rivercrafts
• river dolphin
• river dolphins
• river-dragon
• river-dragons
• river drift