Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The water-ouzel, Cinclus aquaticus. See
Cinclus and dipper, 5.
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Examples
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Colley means a blackbird; water-colley, the water-blackbird or water-ousel -- called the dipper in the North.
The Life of the Fields Richard Jefferies 1867
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They are mostly shore birds, living at the edge of irregularly broken water, either streams or sea; and the representative of the whole group with which we will begin is the mysterious little water-ouzel, or 'oiselle,' properly the water-blackbird, -- Buffon's 'merle d'eau' -- for ouzel is the classic and poetic word for the blackbird, or ouzel-_cock_, "so black of hue," in
Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859
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'water-blackbird,' being, I think, the only one of the dabchicks that really sings.
Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859
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