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Definition of Bird of night
1. Noun. Nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes.
Generic synonyms: Bird Of Prey, Raptor, Raptorial Bird
Group relationships: Order Strigiformes, Strigiformes
Specialized synonyms: Owlet, Athene Noctua, Little Owl, Horned Owl, Great Gray Owl, Great Grey Owl, Strix Nebulosa, Strix Aluco, Tawny Owl, Barred Owl, Strix Varia, Otus Asio, Screech Owl, Screech Owl, Scops Owl, Spotted Owl, Strix Occidentalis, Hoot Owl, Hawk Owl, Surnia Ulula, Asio Otus, Long-eared Owl, Laughing Jackass, Laughing Owl, Sceloglaux Albifacies, Barn Owl, Tyto Alba
Derivative terms: Hoot, Owlet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bird Of Night
Literary usage of Bird of night
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books by John Milton (1750)
"... nightingale 435 Ceas'd warbling, but all night tun'd her foft lays: Others
And on their naked limbs the The amorous bird of night Show'rd rofes ..."
2. The Lounger's Common-place Book: Or Miscellaneous Collections in History by Jeremiah Whitaker Newman (1838)
"... murmurings of a stream at a distance, and the sweet bird of night, are objects
she dwells on with pleasure, and introduces in most of her productions. ..."
3. Lexicon to the English Poetical Works of John Milton by Laura Emma Lockwood (1907)
"557; while night invent* the sea : PLI 207 ; her (the moon's) pale dominion checks
the night : PL in. 732 ; the stars of ni;i/it : PL v. 745; bird of night ..."
4. The Sport of bird-study by Herbert Keightley Job (1908)
"CHAPTER IV THE bird of night (Owls) IF all classes of birds were as hard to become
acquainted ... But, as far as the bird of night is concerned, sometimes, ..."
5. Glimpses of the Animate World, Or, Science and Literature of Natural History (1885)
"THE bird of night. 1. THE owls are rapacious birds, and, in company with all the
true birds of prey, belong to the great order Raptores. ..."
6. Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance by Thomas Moore (1817)
"... can never leave his ears, — Flew up through that long avenue of light, Fleetly
as some dark, ominous bird of night Across the sun, and soon was out of ..."
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