单词 | shritch-owl |
释义 | † shritch-owln. Obsolete. = shriek-owl n. 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 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Striges, shryche oules. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xiv. sig. Y5v Casting forth as pitifull cries as any shrich-owle. 1595 E. Spenser Epithalamion in Amoretti & Epithalamion xix. sig. H5 Let not the shriech Oule, nor the Storke be heard. 1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars v. xlii. 112 Vnder his eaue th buzzing shreechowle sings. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) ii. vi. 56 That fatall Schreechowle [1595 skrichowle] . View more context for this quotation 1761 E. Carter in Mem. (1808) I. 230 We wanted..to have the ground planted with yew and cypress,..and restore the schrich owls and ravens. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1538 |
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