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Definition of Owlet
1. Noun. Young owl.
Definition of Owlet
1. n. A small owl; especially, the European species (Athene noctua), and the California flammulated owlet (Megascops flammeolus).
Definition of Owlet
1. Noun. A young owl. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Owlet
1. a young owl [n -S]
Medical Definition of Owlet
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Owlet
Literary usage of Owlet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bachelor of the Albany by Marmion Wilard Savage (1848)
"... of owlet—The Pie of Pies—How owlet ate it—Results of Mrs. Briscoe's Activity—Petrarch
and Laura—What detained Mr. owlet—Rehearsal of the Miracle Play of ..."
2. Gems of the Modern Poets: With Biographical Notices by Samuel Carter Hall (1842)
"WELCOME BAT AND owlet GRAY. O WELCOME bat and owlet gray, Thus winging lone your
airy way; And welcome moth and drowsy fly, That to mine ear come humming by ..."
3. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (1873)
"... Bird of the sun, transparent-winged owlet of noon, soft-pinioned, From heath
or stubble rising without song; Establish thy serenity o'er the fields. ..."
4. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought by John Todhunter, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harry Buxton Forman (1880)
"FRAGMENT.1 HARK ! the owlet flaps his wings In the pathless dell beneath; Hark!
'tis the night-raven sings Tidings of approaching death. ..."
5. The Forester: A Practical Treatise on British Forestry and Arboriculture for by John Nisbet (1905)
"The Pine Beauty or owlet-Moth, Noctua (Trachea, ... The Pine owlet-moth or Pine
Beauty, common throughout Britain, lives mostly on Pines ..."
6. Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland: Hitherto Unpublished by Peter Buchan (1828)
"CHILDE owlet. Page 27. Lady Erskine appears to have been a daughter of one of
the Earls of ... Childe owlet was an illegitimate son of Lord Ronald's sister, ..."
7. The Household Book of Poetry by Charles Anderson Dana (1873)
"I '11 teach my boy the sweetest things : I'll teach him how the owlet sing«.
My little babe! thy lips are still, And thou hast almost sucked thy fill. ..."
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