Definition of "poor-will" []

• A bird of the Western United States (Phalænoptilus Nutalli) allied to the whip-poor-will. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "Throw in the clinics, and the state-always desperate to expand health care to the poor-will have to say Yes."
• "Suddenly a poor-will lit on the floor beside me and stayed some little time; now and then uttering its mournful cries, then ceasing for a few moments as it flitted round after insects, and again returning to the same place to begin anew."
• "Just now you should be in such cool mistiness, while you should be hearing a hermit thrush sing vespers, a cedar bird call, and a whip - poor-will cry."