Brown Owl

¹

noun

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

brown owl

²

noun

1. another name for tawny owl

Example Sentences

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

From Project Gutenberg

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!

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The barn-owl is the "screech" owl of bird literature; the brown owl the true hooting owl.

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The stock-dove, one of our pretty wild pigeons, nests in colonies in rabbit-burrows, as does the brown owl.

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He brags of no fine society, but is plainly a little elated by "having considerable acquaintance with a tame brown owl."

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