0 in a way that seems serious and intelligent, often because someone is wearing glasses:
The headteacher blinked at him owlishly.
Paddy looked around owlishly at the bright lights and the crowd.
Winter noons he wandered out and stared owlishly at the car.
As it was, he nodded owlishly and waggled his fingers.
He blinked at her owlishly, incapable of expressing the half-thoughts that dodged in his drugged brain.
He grinned owlishly, felt of his jaw and then bowed his head, a flush of shame overspreading his face.
Their knock was answered by a tousled-headed man who stood, lamp in hand, and blinked owlishly at them from the shelter of the doorway.