The owl is the wiseacre of Nature, the vulture is a vile harpy, and the eagle is the embodiment of everything great and mighty, and glorious and free, and swooping and catoptrical.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference

You are to be made expert in "graving, etching, carving, embossing, and moulding in sundry matters," in "grinding of glasses dioptrical and catoptrical," in "navarchy and making models for building and rigging of ships," in "anatomy, making skeletons, and excarnating bowels;" but you miss all that Milton would have taught you of Latin and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649] Reference