howlet

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howlet

(ˈhaʊlɪt)
n
(Animals) archaic poetic another word for owl
[C15: diminutive of howle owl]
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That St Withold's of Burton is a howlet's nest worth the harrying.
| Mr Howlet, work to Tree Preservation Order(s), 35, Deadmanstone, Berry Brow.
? ALTHOUGH Dave Howlet beat Pete Jones 2-0 in the premiership division of the Sheldon Marlborough Cricket Club Singles League and then lost 2-1 to Ken Salsbury he still heads the division with twelve points from his seven games.
According to Government figures, there were 881 domestic workers in the country in 1974, and the number went up to 164 thousand in 1996 (Howlet, 1997 as cited in Lam et.
Brackmann gives particular attention to Nowell's heavily annotated copy of a Latin school dictionary published in 1552 by Richard Howlet, the Abcedarium Anglico-Latinum, which has not previously been the subject of extended study.
Moreover intuitive and spontaneous decision making style is also based on the interplay of cognitive and affective processes (Howlet, Kees, & Kemp, 2008; Scott & Bruce, 1995; Sinclair & Ashkanasy, 2005).
iii scribe three and Canterbury libraries, the development of the Common of Saints in the early English versions of Paul the Deacon's homiliary, Laurence Howell's Old English glosses in Howlet's Abcedarium, and the Anglo-Saxon collections of Johannes de Laet (1581-1649) and Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1602-50).
Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and howlet's wing, for a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
DOUG Howlet t wil l taste Heineken Cup action for the first time in a Munster jersey on Sunday - but Paul O'Connell is extremely doubtful for the crunch trip to Clermont Auvergne.