A small European migratory owl, Otus scops, that winters in sub-Saharran Africa. / Any owl of the Old World genus Otus.

(informal) To build or acquire a basic level of understanding or control.

(idiomatic, transitive) To visit (a person); to pay a call to. / (idiomatic, transitive) To select (a student in a classroom, etc.) to provide an answer.

(idiomatic) To understand or grasp. / (idiomatic) To be in control of, to have power over.

(idiomatic) To state one's thoughts or opinions honestly or frankly.

(idiomatic) To watch; to observe without participating. / (idiomatic) To think of something in a particular way.

simple past tense and past participle of strike off

Almost at the beginning of.

(Mormonism) A territorial subdivision of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints consisting of several wards and, possibly, branches.

The time at night at which artificial lights are to be turned off, a curfew or bedtime. / The prescribed bedtime for persons living in a boarding school or staying in a hospital.