Crossword-Solution: OWL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Owl | n. | Any species of raptorial birds of the family Strigidae. They have large eyes and ears, and a conspicuous circle of feathers around each eye. They are mostly nocturnal in their habits. |
| Owl | n. | A variety of the domestic pigeon. |
| Owl | v. i. | To pry about; to prowl. |
| Owl | v. i. | To carry wool or sheep out of England. |
| Owl | v. i. | Hence, to carry on any contraband trade. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OWL | anagram | LOW, LWO, WOL |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with OWL (5)
Was it the wind above the smoke-flue, Muttering down into the wigwam? Was it the owl, the Koko-koho, Hooting from the dismal forest? Sure a voice said in the silence: “These are corpses clad in garments, These are ghosts that come to haunt you, From the kingdom of Ponemah, From the land of the Hereafter!” Homeward now came Hiawatha From his hunting in the forest, With the snow upon his tresses, And the red deer on his shoulders.
The Lion said to the Fox, “It is not thou who revilest me; but this mischance which has befallen me.” The Owl and the Birds AN OWL, in her wisdom, counseled the Birds that when the acorn first began to sprout, to pull it all up out of the ground and not allow it to grow.
Instead of the voices of her children, she hears by day the moans of the dove, and by night the screams of the hideous owl.
The bright little figures ceased to move about below, a noiseless owl flitted by, and I shivered with the chill of the night.
Then, as he wended his way by swamp and stream and awful woodland, to the farmhouse where he happened to be quartered, every sound of nature, at that witching hour, fluttered his excited imagination,--the moan of the whip-poor-will from the hillside, the boding cry of the tree toad, that harbinger of storm, the dreary hooting of the screech owl, or the sudden rustling in the thicket of birds frightened from their roost.
Quotes with OWL (3)
Now, you two — this year, you behave yourselves. If I get one more owl telling me you've — you've blown up a toilet or — ""Blown up a toilet? We've never blown up a toilet.""Great idea though, thanks, Mum.
They are angry with me, because I know what I am." Said the little eagle. "How do you know that they are angry with you?" "Because, they despise me for wanting to soar, they only want me to peck at the dirt, looking for ants, with them. But I can't do that. I don't have chicken feet, I have eagle wings." "And what is so wrong with having eagle wings and no chicken feet?" Asked the old owl. "I'm not sure, that's what I'm trying to find out." "They hate you because you know th…
Harry lost any sense of where they were: Streetlights above him, yells around him, he was clinging to the sidecar for dear life. Hedwig’s cage, the Firebolt, and his rucksack slipped from beneath his knees — “No — HEDWIG!” The broomstick spun to earth, but he just managed to seize the strap of his rucksack and the top of the cage as the motorbike swung the right way up again. A second’s relief, and then another burst of green light. The owl screeched and fell to the floor of …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 772 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).