Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Glimmering or imperfect light; twilight.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Glimmering or imperfect light.
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- noun
glimmering orimperfect light
Etymologies
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owl + light
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tusseymountain commented on the word owllight
Twilight, dusk; dim or poor light. Usually this is owl-light. OED has one reference to it without the hyphen: "1776 M. DELANY in Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. II. 213, I must finish to-morrow, for I have written thus far by owllight."
May 15, 2009