Night-raven
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Night-raven is a noun meaning A bird active at night, sometimes identified with a specific species such as a night owl or nightjar, and sometimes seen as a separate animal in its own right.
Meaning
A bird active at night, sometimes identified with a specific species such as a night owl or nightjar, and sometimes seen as a separate animal in its own right.
Example Sentences
Cursed creatures, messengers of death, possess the world. / Night-ravens, screech-owls, and voice-killing mandrakes […].
sad Horrour with grim hew, / Did alwayes sore, beating his yron wings; / And after him Owles and Night-rauens flew, / The hatefull messengers of heauy things [...].
Omens thicken upon us, O Gro. First, the night raven that went widdershins round about the palace of Carcë, that night when the King accepted this challenge, and we were all drunken with wine after our great feasting and surfeiting in his halls.
Word Forms
- night-ravens
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include nighthawk, nightbird, night-jar, jar-owl, nightchurr, nightjar.
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