owlet
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈaʊlət/
Noun
owlet (plural owlets)
- Diminutive of owl
- c. 1590 (date written), G[eorge] P[eele], The Old Wiues Tale. […], London: […] Iohn Danter, for Raph Hancocke, and Iohn Hardie, […], published 1595, →OCLC:
- And in faith Sir unlesse your hospitalitie doe releeve us, wee are like to wander with a sorrowfull hey ho, among the owlets, & Hobgoblins of the Forrest […]
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
- Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg and owlet’s wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
- 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fears in Solitude, London: J. Johnson, pages 4–5:
- […] and bold with joy,
Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place
(Portentous sight) the owlet, ATHEISM,
Sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon,
Drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close,
And, hooting at the glorious sun in heaven,
Cries out, “where is it?”
- A young owl; owling.
- One of a species of small owls, such as Athene noctua.
- An owlet moth.
- 2023, John Himmelman, Discovering Moths, page 39:
- Noticeable features found in many of the owlets are two markings that often appear on the upper forewings.
Derived terms
Translations
a young owl
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References
- “owlet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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