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One who owls; esp., one who conveys contraband goods. See Owling, n. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] T. Brown.

An abode or a haunt of owls.

One who practices or finds sport in batfowling.

One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.

A sportsman who pursues wild fowl, or takes or kills for food.

. An Fowler, an English physician who first brought it into use.

A variety of rhodonite, from Franklin Furnace, New Jersey, containing some zinc.

One who growls.

One who howls.

A dog with large jowls, as the beagle.

One that prowls. Thomson.

One of the several species of howling monkeys of South America. See Howler, 2.

A South American monkey, the ursine howler (Mycetes ursinus). See Howler, n., 2.

One whose employment it is to catch birds; a fowler.

A fowler or birdcatcher.

at Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward. Like an uninstructed bowler, . . . who thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straightforward upon it. Sir W. Scott.

One of the lines serving to define the limits of the bowler and the striker. Bowling crease (Cricket), a line extending three feet four inches on each side of the central strings at right angles to the line between the wickets. -- Return crease (Cricket), a short line at each end of the bowling crease and at right ang…

Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. [R.] Now the fowler . . . treads the crimp earth. J. Philips.

, or a ball. Shaking his head and delivering some show of tears. Sidney. An uninstructed bowler . . . thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straightforward. Sir W. Scott.

. It is tame and easily taken, and is popularly believed to imitate the movements of the fowler. In catching of dotterels we see how the foolish bird playeth the ape in gestures. Bacon.