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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small brown owl, Ketupa ceylonensis.

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  • Yet coming from the verb involvo, – uere, – ui, – utum, the curiously fugitive sense of involutum also carries the sense of moving in a circle, being wrapped or rolled, coiled, curled, or wound up.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • Yet coming from the verb involvo, – uere, – ui, – utum, the curiously fugitive sense of involutum also carries the sense of moving in a circle, being wrapped or rolled, coiled, curled, or wound up.

    Easter Sunday 2009

  • Ibid. 'τίροβοίνονσης temere expreiriim erat in ed.I. & inde fer\ utum in fcqq.

    Historiarum quidquid superest; 1789

  • Qfll). en paix .. trAssitiLK, tril) utum quod t trtnftfunribus exiginir, 'i. q.

    Glossarium manuale ad scriptores mediae et infimae Latinitatis Charles Du Fresne Du Cange 1778

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  • A small brown owl, Ketupa ceylonensis. Also known as the Brown Fish-Owl. (Thanks, gangerh).

    February 16, 2011