Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bird that cries in the night; the night-heron. Also called
night-crow .
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- noun A
bird active at night, sometimes identified with a specific species such as a night-owl ornightjar , and sometimes seen as a separate animal in its own right.
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Examples
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The planes, specifically the night-raven jet, looks like it came straight out of the Hasbro packaging.
G.I. JOE: Rise of Cobra REVIEW « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009
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The night-raven screamed from the old oak-tree, the fox howled on the hill, the hoarse waterfall replied with its echoes; but there was no human answer.
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The hoarse night-raven, hid among the roots, startled the voyagers with
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I had as lief have heard the night-raven, come what plague could have come after it.
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The owl and the night-raven and all the birds see poorly in the daytime seek their prey in the night, but not all the night through, but at evening and dawn.
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Further, of birds that fly by night, some have crooked talons, such as the night-raven, the owl, and the eagle-owl.
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The eared owl is like an ordinary owl, only that it has feathers about its ears; by some it is called the night-raven.
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One night the usurer being in bed, Robin in the shape of a night-raven [7] came to the window, and there did beat with his wings, and croaked in such manner that this old usurer thought he should have presently died for fear.
The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' Compiled by Frank Sidgwick
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[7] P. 97, l. 18. _night-raven, _ proverbially a bird of ill-omen.
The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' Compiled by Frank Sidgwick
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I had as lief have heard the night-raven, come what plague could have come after it.
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