British Dictionary definitions for Brown Owl (2 of 2)

Brown Owl

noun
  1. a name (no longer in official use) for Brownie Guider

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How to use brown owl in a sentence

  • Luckily for him the brown owl had meanwhile flown away with another young vole in her claws.

    Creatures of the Night | Alfred W. Rees
  • Long may the brown owl live to chant his dim song in "Yallam" Wood—and long may he escape the gun and trap of the gamekeeper!

    Thomas Hardy's Dorset | Robert Thurston Hopkins
  • The barn-owl is the "screech" owl of bird literature; the brown owl the true hooting owl.

    Poachers and Poaching | John Watson
  • The stock-dove, one of our pretty wild pigeons, nests in colonies in rabbit-burrows, as does the brown owl.

    Poachers and Poaching | John Watson
  • He brags of no fine society, but is plainly a little elated by "having considerable acquaintance with a tame brown owl."

    My Garden Acquaintance | James Russell Lowell