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Church owl

ʧərʧ aʊl
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Church owl
    (Zoöl) the white owl. See Barn owl.
Usage in the news

The Barn Owl store at 102 W Church Street in Atmore will be closing its doors in July. atmoreadvance.com

Brian McCollum's big gigs: Joss Stone, Eric Church, Owl City. freep.com

Wildlife rehabilitators at Broadbent Wildlife Sanctuary released a great horned owl at the Mt Zion United Methodist Church in Cadiz on Thursday, April 26. cadizrecord.com

A handler holds an elderly owl with poor vision that was rescued from the Mt Vernon area Friday and taken to a raptor rehabilitation center in Falls Church. topnews.com

Staff photo by Steve Muscatello Spencer Burden reads "Owl at Home" during Family Forensics Night Friday at St Paul's Lutheran Church in New Ulm. nujournal.com

MOUNT VERNON — A funeral service for Rex D Spray , 81, of Mount Vernon, will be held at 11 am, Tuesday, Dec 27, at Owl Creek Baptist Church, 4044 Owl Creek Church Road with Pastor Sharon VanWinkle officiating. mountvernonnews.com

Usage in literature

The door opened, and a yellow ray from a lantern streamed into the church, making the owl in its corner flutter wildly. "The Port of Adventure" by Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

Another Scops owl, with one eye, lives in the eastern aviary, in Church's care. "The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893" by Various

But Kingsley was as grave as a church and as earnest as an owl. "Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches" by Justin McCarthy

AN OWL ATTENDING A CHURCH COUNCIL (A.D. 1412). "Curiosities of Christian History" by Croake James

Usage in poetry
GRANDMOTHER.
Nay, nay, I should but frighten you. You know
The other night when I was telling you
About the light in the church-yard, how you trembled
Because the screech-owl hooted at the window,
And would not go to bed.