ouzel
Americannoun
noun
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the ring ouzel or water ouzel See ring ouzel dipper
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an archaic name for the (European) blackbird
Etymology
Origin of ouzel
before 900; Middle English osel merle, blackbird, Old English ōsle, cognate with German Amsel; akin to Latin merula; see merle 1
Example Sentences
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It is totally impossible to follow our author through any thing like his range of subjects, extending from the hart to the seal and otter, from the eagle and wild swan to the ouzel.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
The movement was "dipping," of course, and he was the dipper, or ouzel baby, that had been cradled in that fountain-dashed nest by the fall.
From A Bird-Lover in the West by Miller, Olive Thorne
Water ouzel, or American dipper: baby, 80, 85. cry, 79. "dipping," 80. feats in the water, 83. manners, 80, 81. nest, 77. song, 79, 81. the mother, 82.
From A Bird-Lover in the West by Miller, Olive Thorne
Later, he was to know this little slate-colored bird as the water ouzel, a bird that was neither wader nor swimmer, yet took his subsistence from the foam and spray.
From David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story by Harney, George S.
As he rocked he watched the water ouzel teetering on a rock in the river, joyously shaking from its back the spray which deluged it at intervals.
From The Man from the Bitter Roots by Lockhart, Caroline
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