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单词 lich-owl
释义 ˈlich-owl
Also 6–7 like-owle.
[f. lich + owl.]
The screech-owl, so called because its cry was supposed to portend death in the house.
1585Higins Junius' Nomenclator 56 Bubo, a shrichowle: a likeowle.1601Holland Pliny I. 283 The Otis is a bird lesse than the Like-Owle,..hauing two plumed ears standing vp aloft.1604Drayton Owle 302 The shreeking Litch-Owle that doth never cry, But boding death.1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 268/1 The little Horn-Owle..termed Lich Owls..because Prognosticaters of Peoples death, when they scrietch about there Houses.1898Watts-Dunton Aylwin (1900) 32/2 Then came the shadow of a lich-owl, as it whisked past us towards the apple-trees.
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