howlet

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"I was both aweary and sleepy and also as poor as a howlet, and all that the wicked witch knew.

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  1. Same as owlet. There was three fools fell out about an howlet: The one said it was an owl; The other he said nay. Fletcher (and another), Two Noble Kinsmen, iii. 5.

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  • Perhaps an howlet or a bat or some other furtive creature. —  Julian, May - Boreal Moon 01 - Conqueror's Moon
  • Will the night send a howlet or a bat? —  Dramatic Romances
  • "I was both aweary and sleepy and also as poor as a howlet, and all that the wicked witch knew. —  Bunyan Characters (2nd Series)
  • My dear friend, I knew, had his own difficulties, though he was not exactly as poor as a howlet. —  Bunyan Characters (2nd Series)
  • When you are weary and sleepy and hungry as a howlet, and, Madam Bubble and her three daughters make a ring round you, what do you do? —  Bunyan Characters (2nd Series)
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  1. Also houlet, hoolet, hulote, hullat, hullert, etc., varied forms of owlet, from Old French hulotte, also hulette, French hulotte (also huette, from huer, cry), an owl: see owlet and howl.
 

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