night owl

From a tree near the forest Tess could hear the screech of a night-owl die away in smothered laughter.

It was some one mimicking a night-owl, and doing it very badly, as the boy's true ear detected at once.

Shall we rouse the night-owl in a catch, that will draw three souls out of one weaver?

So fill the glasses, once more, from the wassail-bowl, and let us "rouse the night-owl" in another "catch!"

The lights were low, and Clem, a night-owl, fixed him in a chair near the door.