Meaning of night-raven | Babel Free

Definitions

A bird active at night, sometimes identified with a specific species such as a night owl or nightjar, and sometimes seen as a separate animal in its own right.

Examples

“sad Horrour with grim hew, / Did alwayes sore, beating his yron wings; / And after him Owles and Night-rauens flew, / The hatefull messengers of heauy things [...].”

“Cursed creatures, messengers of death, possess⟳ the world. / Night-ravens, screech-owls, and voice-killing mandrakes […].”

“Omens thicken upon us, O Gro. First, the night raven that went widdershins round about the palace of Carcë, that night when the King accepted this challenge⟳, and we were all drunken with wine after our great feasting and surfeiting in his halls.”

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