Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. Variant of ouzel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. Alternative spelling of ouzel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. One of several species of European thrushes, especially the blackbird (Merula merula, or Turdus merula), and the mountain or ring ousel (Turdus torquatus).
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See ouzel.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. common black European thrush
Etymologies
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Examples
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There is, however, another, and a much smaller bird, the Dipper, or ousel, which is still more at home in the water than the loon, and that without being web-footed, but it is probably less of a diver.
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(have you him as the 'ousel'?) whom I kept alive, I think, through last hard winter by a saucer of Bread and Milk, has come to look for it again.
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To him went the eagle and asked him the age of the owl and got for answer: ‘I have a year over my head for every gem on my skin and for every egg in my roe, yet have I always seen the owl look the same; but there is one older than myself, and that is the ousel of Cilgwry.’
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Cilgwry, and found the ousel standing upon a little rock, and asked him the age of the owl.
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So the eagle of Gwernabwy; the stag of Ferny-side Brae; the salmon trout of Glyn Llifon; the ousel of Cilgwry; the toad of Cors
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SO they journeyed until they came to the nest of an ousel, and Gwrhyr spoke to her.
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So the ousel flew before them, till she reached the stag of
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There was an empty slot in the car - ousel, as if one of the creatures had been ripped from its place.
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An ousel fluttered across the stream and dabbled in a puddle among some stones.
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Kastoora, Merula Boulboul (the grey-winged ousel).
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