aprowl

English

Etymology

a- +‎ prowl

Adjective

aprowl (not comparable)

  1. Prowling.
    • 1882, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, “Little Robin Redbreast”, in Mother Goose for Grown Folks‎, revised and enlarged edition, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, page 158:
      A quick, bold pair, that scampers fair, is
      part of the saving plan,
      And a match for the pad
      Aprowl on the pitiless four, lad!
    • 1920, Marian Storm, “A Woodland Valentine”, in Minstrel Weather‎, New York: Harper, page 7:
      Better to stay behind the frozen gate than to come too early up into the realms where the wolves of cold are still aprowl.
    • 1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel‎, New York: The Modern Library, Part 1, Chapter 10, p. 113:
      He was a stranger, and as he sought through the house, he was always aprowl to find some entrance into life, some secret undiscovered door—a stone, a leaf,—that might admit him into light and fellowship.
    • 1995, Gore Vidal, “FDR: Love on the Hudson”, in Virgin Islands‎, London: André Deutsch, published 1997, page 123:
      She was intelligent but not clever; drawn to quack doctors, numerologists, astrologists; she also knew that the ghost of Abraham Lincoln was constantly aprowl in the White House.
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