(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.
(n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon.
(v. i.) To pry about; to prowl.
(v. i.) To carry wool or sheep out of England.
(v. i.) Hence, to carry on any contraband trade.
Example Sentences:
(1) Owls were more hypnotizable than larks in the morning, and larks were also significantly more hypnotizable in the evening than owls.
(2) In owl monkeys, elevation of intracranial pressure to 500 mm.
(3) Inadequate availability of hematological reference data seriously restricts optimal utilization of the owl monkey (Aotus lemurinus griseimembra) as an experimental model.
(4) In 2000 the comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm showed an owl in a tree calling "Whom" and a raccoon on the ground replying "Show-off!"
(5) The sulfinyl- and sulfonylquinazolines also retained antimalarial effects against chloroquine-, cycloguanil-, and DDS-resistant lines of P. berghei in mice and against chloroquine- and pyrimethamine-resistant strains of P. falciparum in owl monkeys.
(6) Matched, binocular displacing prisms were mounted over the eyes of 19 barn owls (Tyto alba) beginning at ages ranging from 10 to 272 d. In nearly all cases, the visual field was shifted 23 degrees to the right.
(7) Results described in this report identify a region of the viral genome that is required for oncogenicity in owl monkeys (Aotus trivirgatus); this region is not required for replication of the virus.
(8) A highly organized myoelectric event in the fasting avian small intestine, the ROC is demonstrated in detail in chickens (Gallus); it is also found in other gallinaceous birds but not in owls (Strix) or mammals.
(9) WR-158,122 and WR-159,412, against Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax infections in owl monkeys, were seriously impaired when infecting strains were pyrimethamine-resistant; and 2) that primary treatment failure with either agent led frequently to emergence of parasites resistant to these derivatives.
(10) The owl processes time and intensity components of the auditory signal in separate pathways, and each pathway has a distinctive pattern of GAD- and GABA-like immunoreactivity.
(11) Middle ear morphology and behavioural observations of kangaroo rats jumping vertically to avoid predation by owls and rattlesnakes support this view.
(12) Connections between the primary motor cortex (MI) and the corpus striatum were studied in the owl monkey.
(13) I found swans and storks and all manner of seabirds but, again, no owls, because stuffing them is forbidden in France.
(14) Thus I wound up on 13 February calling a London taxidermy shop and asking if they had any owls.
(15) The standard metabolism of Aotus trivirgatus (Night monkey, Owl monkey) is 22.5 to 46.2 per cent below Kleiber's prevision curve for mammals, which applies to other cebid monkeys like Saimiri sciureus and Alouatta.
(16) A person who's that out of it deserves both an owl and chocolate, so I got off the train at Piccadilly Circus and picked him up a box.
(17) Recordings from conscious owls plus simultaneous radiographic observations revealed characteristic gastrointestinal motility patterns associated with egestion.
(18) Look and listen out for Little owls hunting voles and mice and badgers crossing over the summit from a set on the hillside below.
(19) The fitting procedure showed that the shape of the owls' binaural temporal window could be described by the same algorithms as the human monaural temporal window.
(20) In squirrel and owl monkeys, extensive reciprocal connections were made with cortex throughout the caudal half of the lateral fissure and, to a much lesser extent, cortex around the superior temporal sulcus.
Owlish
Definition:
(a.) Resembling, or characteristic of, an owl.
Example Sentences:
(1) I was probably the only person at one of Roy Hodgson's many – indeed, seemingly hourly – sad press conferences to be reminded of Italian designer Roberto Cavalli, but that's only because the sports journalists never witnessed the designer weepily explain for 45 minutes that he was cancelling his show in a manner decidedly reminiscent of the owlish England manager announcing, post knockout, that he was in a "a realm of despair" – a description the Daily Telegraph's Matt Law rightly described as Ron Burgundy-esque.
(2) Behind the owlish glasses were eyes that were alternatively penetrating and twinkling.
(3) Amid the partisan clamour of the election campaign, Paul Johnson, the owlish director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies , and his team of young policy wonks have come to be seen as the ultimate arbiters of that endlessly repeated question, “Do the parties’ sums add up?” Ever since it was founded in 1969, it has been part of the thinktank’s raison d’etre to raise the quality of national debate about tax and spending policy.
(4) "I think now," Ballard says, almost owlishly, "that the drained pool represented the unknown."
(5) The Dickens industry cranked up, spewing monographs, PhDs and owlishly over-annotated editions.
(6) After lunch, I go to see the PAC in action quizzing William Nye, an owlish aide of the Prince of Wales, about the tax affairs of the Duchy of Cornwall.
(7) She was the mother and determined journalist with owlish glasses and grey thatch of hair who cruised around Greenwich Village on a bicycle, her handbag stowed in a wicker basket on the handlebars.
(8) Roy Hodgson strode about in his owlish way, hands clasped behind his back, sporting a badly fitting T-shirt and blue shorts, looking for all the world like a grandfather taking a leisurely stroll on a golf course.