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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.

 

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