单词 | night-fowl |
释义 | > as lemmasnight-fowl night-fowl n. ΚΠ ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 114 Þenicht fuwel flið binachte & biȝet in þeosternesse hire fode. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 126 Þe day excitiþ clene briddis and dayfoules..to singe..and feriþ a way nyȝtfoules. a1668 W. Davenant Distresses iv. i. 51 in Wks. (1673) I guess it by The flutt'ring up and down of your night fowl, Something of Rapine or Revenge is near. 1830 Ld. Tennyson Mariana iii, in Poems 15 Waking she heard the nightfowl crow. 1926 J. Gray Sound The myriad cries of all his woodland throats, The mellow wondering the night-fowl hoots, And creeping morning's rapture trills. < as lemmas |
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