Definition of Owlier

1. owly [adj] - See also: owly

Lexicographical Neighbors of Owlier

owl eye cell
owl parrot
owl parrots
owlbear
owlbears
owlclaws
owld
owled
owler
owleries
owlers
owlery
owlet
owlet moth
owlets
owlier (current term)
owliest
owliness
owling
owlish
owlishly
owlishness
owlishnesses
owlism
owllight
owllike
owls
owly
owly-eyed
owly eied

Literary usage of Owlier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1870)
"... matter which enables me to correct »uul improve what I had already written in the owlier parts. All these improvements in detail I havo thought it right ..."

2. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1847)
"... until he is decreed a proper compensation, or one is made him by the owlier. Any finder of property derelict,is entitled to become salvor, ..."

3. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"... was lowered to one-fourth. The first town Ovando peopled was Puerto de Plata. Eight Spaniards going there, landed at Saona with a dog, which the owlier ..."

4. The Family: An Ethnographical and Historical Outline with Descriptive Notes by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (1908)
"(5) An important restriction upon sexual choice parental we have already referred to in considering the sub- owlier,hlp jects of age at betrothal and ..."

5. The Civil Code of the State of California by California, Creed Haymond, John Chilton Burch (1872)
"CHAPTER in. RIGHTS OF OWNERS. SECTION 732. Increase of property. 733. In certain cases who entitled to income of property. Increase of 732. The OWLier Of a ..."

6. A Compendium of the Law of Real and Personal Property Primarily Connected by Josiah William Smith (1870)
"^Ie owlier °f each successive remainder was allowed five years from the determination of all the particular estates anterior to his remainder. ..."

7. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation: Hearing Before the by United States, Senate, Congress, Committee on Commerce (1918)
"If the vessel is tried at deep-load draft the owlier will provide cargo. If so desired, the owner can require nil or any of the vessels to be tried ..."

8. The Young Man's Offering: Comprising Prose and Poetical Writings of the Most (1853)
"... in peace; and when he walked among the neighboring herdsmen, .owlier in lot than themselves, or stood in the opening of his mountain-hold, and looked on ..."

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