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Definition of ouzel

ouzel
Ousel Ou"sel, n. [OE. osel, AS. ?sle; akin to G. amsel, OHG. amsala, and perh. to L. merula blackbird. Cf. Merle, Amsel.] (Zo["o]l.) One of several species of European thrushes, especially the blackbird (Merula merula, or Turdus merula), and the mountain or ring ousel (Turdus torquatus). [Written also ouzel.] Rock ousel (Zo["o]l.), the ring ousel. Water ousel (Zo["o]l.), the European dipper (Cinclus aquaticus), and the American dipper (C. Mexicanus).
Ouzel
Ouzel Ou"zel, n. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Ousel. The mellow ouzel fluted in the elm. --Tennyson.

Meaning of ouzel from wikipedia

- Look up ouzel or ousel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ouzel may refer to: Common blackbird or ouzel, a species of thrush, all-black in the male Lord...
- The ring ouzel (****us torquatus) is a mainly European member of the thrush family ****idae. It is a medium-sized thrush, 23–24 centimetres (9.1–9.4 in)...
- The River Ouzel /ˈuːzəl/, also known as the River Lovat, is a river in England, and a tributary of the River Great Ouse. It rises in the Chiltern Hills...
- The Ouzel Galley was an Irish merchant ship that set sail from Dublin in the late seventeenth century and was presumed lost with all hands when she failed...
- August 9, 1978, a lightning strike near Ouzel Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park sparked the Ouzel Fire. The Ouzel Fire of 1978 tested the strength and...
- known in Britain and America, respectively, as the water ouzel (sometimes spelt "ousel") – ouzel originally meant the only distantly related but superficially...
- The American dipper (Cinclus mexic****), also known as a water ouzel, is a semiaquatic bird species native to western North America. It is a stocky grey...
- and one, the ring ouzel, still retains the Old English name ouzel, which, until the 17th century, was also used (as "black ouzel") for the Common blackbird;...
- The ouzel usage survived later in poetry, and still occurs as the name of the closely related ring ouzel (****us torquatus), and in water ouzel, an alternative...
- is a light-industrial and residential district on the banks of the River Ouzel, a tributary of the Great Ouse and on the other side of Brickhill Street...