- a variation of screech owl.
Example Sentences
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His favorites were screech-owl eggs, roasted boar's lung and powdered pumice.
From Time Magazine Archive
Somewhere in the corner of the ruins a screech-owl shrieked.
From Jena or Sedan? by Beyerlein, Franz
With great wings hung the screech-owl of anguish over mortal eyes, and pecked with black beak down into the breast, and nothing was heard in the stillness but the owl.
From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul
He shall do't, madam:—-But how, the devil knows; for he sings like a screech-owl, and never touched the lute.
From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by Dryden, John
But here I read that casec gwenwyn, mare of poison, means a screech-owl.
