Word Meanings - OWLERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An abode or a haunt of owls.
Related words: (words related to OWLERY)
- HAUNTED
Inhabited by, or subject to the visits of, apparitions; frequented by a ghost. All houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted houses. Longfellow. - HAUNTER
One who, or that which, haunts. - ABODEMENT
A foreboding; an omen. "Abodements must not now affright us." Shak. - HAUNT
to go about, fr. L. ambire ; or cf. Icel. heimta to 1. To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon. You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house. Shak. Those cares that haunt the court and town. - ABODE
of Abide. - CHAUNTERIE
See CHAUCER - DISHAUNT
To leave; to quit; to cease to haunt. Halliwell. - CHAUNTER
1. A street seller of ballads and other broadsides. 2. A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey. He was a horse chaunter; he's a leg now. Dickens. 3. The flute of a bagpipe. See Chanter, n., 3. - CHAUNT
See CHANT - HELL-HAUNTED
Haunted by devils; hellish. Dryden.