Definition of "ousel" [ou•sel]

• Variant of ouzel. (noun)

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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."
• "(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."
• "There was an empty slot in the car - ousel, as if one of the creatures had been ripped from its place."