See Also: Fowl(medicine)
sea fowl(medicine)
fowl(1)(dictionary)
fowl(2)(dictionary)
fowl(dictionary)
jungle fowl(encyclopedia)
guinea fowl(encyclopedia)
guinea fowl(dictionary)
Guinea fowl(recipes)
game fowl(medicine)

Orphean (iou) and fowl (oh)


Orphean (iou)



Orphean adjective & noun. L16.
[from Latin Orpheus from Greek Orpheios, from Orpheus (see below): see -AN, -EAN.]
A. adjective.
Of or pertaining to (the musical abilities of) Orpheus, a mythical Greek musician and poet the strains of whose lyre were said to be able to move rocks and trees. Also, melodious, entrancing. L16.
Orphean warbler a grey and white migratory warbler, Sylvia hortensis, with a whitish eye, of Southern Europe, SW Asia, and Africa north of the equator.
W. Cowper As if conven'd By Magic summons of th' Orphean lyre.
= ORPHIC adjective 1. L17.
b. noun. An adherent of Orphic philosophy. E19.

fowl (oh)



[U and C]
[Language: Old English; Origin: fugel]
a bird, such as a chicken, that is kept for its meat and eggs, or the meat of this type of bird
old use any bird