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Ouzel   Listen
noun
Ouzel  n.  (Zool.) Same as Ousel. "The mellow ouzel fluted in the elm."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Ouzel" Quotes from Famous Books



... frogs occasionally sprang from under their chisel, leaving an unchallengeable impress in the immemorial rock. It must indeed have been up-hill work to extinguish the old belief in the minds of men who had seen the water-ouzel pattering in perfect ease and comfort along the floor of the pellucid pool, and who had heard from their fisher friends from the north coast of the gannets that were drawn up in ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 • Various

... no limit to the variety and adaptiveness of nature taken as a whole, but each species is hedged about by impassable limitations. The ouzel is akin to the thrushes, and yet it lives along and in the water. Does it ever take to the fields and woods, and live on fruit and land-insects, and nest in trees like other thrushes? So with all birds ...
— Ways of Nature • John Burroughs



Words linked to "Ouzel" :   merl, genus Turdus, thrush, merle, Turdus merula, American water ouzel, ring ouzel



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