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ousel
(encz) | ousel, n: |
Ousel
(gcide) | Ousel \Ou"sel\ ([oo^]"z'l), n. [OE. osel, AS. [=o]sle; akin to
G. amsel, OHG. amsala, and perh. to L. merula blackbird. Cf.
Merle, Amsel.] (Zool.)
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.]
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Rock ousel (Zool.), the ring ousel.
Water ousel (Zool.), the European dipper ({Cinclus
aquaticus}), and the American dipper ({Cinclus
Mexicanus}).
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ousel
(wn) | ousel
n 1: common black European thrush [syn: blackbird, merl,
merle, ouzel, ousel, European blackbird, {Turdus
merula}] |
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carousel
(encz) | carousel,kolotoč |
carrousel
(encz) | carrousel,karusel n: Zdeněk Brož |
houselights
(encz) | houselights, |
luggage carousel
(encz) | luggage carousel, n: |
luggage carrousel
(encz) | luggage carrousel, n: |
mouselike
(encz) | mouselike, adj: |
ousel
(encz) | ousel, n: |
carousel
(gcide) | Merry-go-round \Mer"ry-go`-round"\, n.
Any revolving contrivance for affording amusement; esp., a
group of seats in the shape of hobbyhorses or other fanciful
animals, arranged in a circle on a platform that is rotated
by a mechanical drive, often to the accompaniment of music;
the seats often move up and down in synchrony with the
rotation; -- called also carousel. It is employed primarily
for the amusement of children, and is typically found at an
amusement park.
[1913 Webster]carousel \carousel\ (k[a^]r`[-o]*s[e^]l"), n.
1. a continuous belt oriented horizontally or
near-horizontally around a central structure, driven in a
circular motion by some mechanism, which carries luggage
delivered from the luggage hold of an airplane to air
travelers; -- used at airports.
Syn: luggage carousel.
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2. same as merry-go-round.
Syn: merry-go-round, roundabout, whirligig.
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Housel
(gcide) | Housel \Hou"sel\, n. [OE. housel, husel, AS. h[=u]sel; akin to
Icel. h[=u]sl, Goth. hunsl a sacrifice.]
The eucharist. [Archaic] --Rom. of R. --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]Housel \Hou"sel\, v. t. [AS. h[=u]slian.]
To administer the eucharist to. [Archaic] --Chaucer.
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Houseleek
(gcide) | Houseleek \House"leek`\, n. [House + leek.] (Bot.)
A succulent plant of the genus Sempervivum ({Sempervivum
tectorum}), originally a native of subalpine Europe, but now
found very generally on old walls and roofs. It is very
tenacious of life under drought and heat; -- called also
ayegreen.
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Houseless
(gcide) | Houseless \House"less\, a.
Destitute of the shelter of a house; shelterless; homeless;
as, a houseless wanderer.
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Houselessness
(gcide) | Houselessness \House"less*ness\, n.
The state of being houseless.
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Houseline
(gcide) | Houseline \House"line`\, n. (Naut.)
A small line of three strands used for seizing; -- called
also housing. --Totten.
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Houseling
(gcide) | Houseling \House"ling`\, a.
Same as Housling.
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Mountain ousel
(gcide) | Mountain \Moun"tain\ (moun"t[i^]n), a.
1. Of or pertaining to a mountain or mountains; growing or
living on a mountain; found on or peculiar to mountains;
among mountains; as, a mountain torrent; mountain pines;
mountain goats; mountain air; mountain howitzer.
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2. Like a mountain; mountainous; vast; very great.
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The high, the mountain majesty of worth. --Byron.
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Mountain antelope (Zool.), the goral.
Mountain ash (Bot.), an ornamental tree, the {Pyrus
Americana} (or Sorbus Americana), producing beautiful
bunches of red berries. Its leaves are pinnate, and its
flowers white, growing in fragrant clusters. The European
species is the Pyrus aucuparia, or rowan tree.
Mountain barometer, a portable barometer, adapted for safe
transportation, used in measuring the heights of
mountains.
Mountain beaver (Zool.), the sewellel.
Mountain blue (Min.), blue carbonate of copper; azurite.
Mountain cat (Zool.), the catamount. See Catamount.
Mountain chain, a series of contiguous mountain ranges,
generally in parallel or consecutive lines or curves.
Mountain cock (Zool.), capercailzie. See Capercailzie.
Mountain cork (Min.), a variety of asbestus, resembling
cork in its texture.
Mountain crystal. See under Crystal.
Mountain damson (Bot.), a large tree of the genus
Simaruba (Simaruba amarga) growing in the West Indies,
which affords a bitter tonic and astringent, sometimes
used in medicine.
Mountain dew, Scotch whisky, so called because often
illicitly distilled among the mountains. [Humorous]
Mountain ebony (Bot.), a small leguminous tree ({Bauhinia
variegata}) of the East and West Indies; -- so called
because of its dark wood. The bark is used medicinally and
in tanning.
Mountain flax (Min.), a variety of asbestus, having very
fine fibers; amianthus. See Amianthus.
Mountain fringe (Bot.), climbing fumitory. See under
Fumitory.
Mountain goat. (Zool.) See Mazama.
Mountain green. (Min.)
(a) Green malachite, or carbonate of copper.
(b) See Green earth, under Green, a.
Mountain holly (Bot.), a branching shrub ({Nemopanthes
Canadensis}), having smooth oblong leaves and red berries.
It is found in the Northern United States.
Mountain laurel (Bot.), an American shrub ({Kalmia
latifolia}) with glossy evergreen leaves and showy
clusters of rose-colored or white flowers. The foliage is
poisonous. Called also American laurel, ivy bush, and
calico bush. See Kalmia.
Mountain leather (Min.), a variety of asbestus, resembling
leather in its texture.
Mountain licorice (Bot.), a plant of the genus Trifolium
(Trifolium Alpinum).
Mountain limestone (Geol.), a series of marine limestone
strata below the coal measures, and above the old red
standstone of Great Britain. See Chart of Geology.
Mountain linnet (Zool.), the twite.
Mountain magpie. (Zool.)
(a) The yaffle, or green woodpecker.
(b) The European gray shrike.
Mountain mahogany (Bot.) See under Mahogany.
Mountain meal (Min.), a light powdery variety of calcite,
occurring as an efflorescence.
Mountain milk (Min.), a soft spongy variety of carbonate of
lime.
Mountain mint. (Bot.) See Mint.
Mountain ousel (Zool.), the ring ousel; -- called also
mountain thrush and mountain colley. See Ousel.
Mountain pride, or Mountain green (Bot.), a tree of
Jamaica (Spathelia simplex), which has an unbranched
palmlike stem, and a terminal cluster of large, pinnate
leaves.
Mountain quail (Zool.), the plumed partridge ({Oreortyx
pictus}) of California. It has two long, slender,
plumelike feathers on the head. The throat and sides are
chestnut; the belly is brown with transverse bars of black
and white; the neck and breast are dark gray.
Mountain range, a series of mountains closely related in
position and direction.
Mountain rice. (Bot.)
(a) An upland variety of rice, grown without irrigation,
in some parts of Asia, Europe, and the United States.
(b) An American genus of grasses (Oryzopsis).
Mountain rose (Bot.), a species of rose with solitary
flowers, growing in the mountains of Europe ({Rosa
alpina}).
Mountain soap (Min.), a soft earthy mineral, of a brownish
color, used in crayon painting; saxonite.
Mountain sorrel (Bot.), a low perennial plant ({Oxyria
digyna} with rounded kidney-form leaves, and small
greenish flowers, found in the White Mountains of New
Hampshire, and in high northern latitudes. --Gray.
Mountain sparrow (Zool.), the European tree sparrow.
Mountain spinach. (Bot.) See Orach.
Mountain tobacco (Bot.), a composite plant ({Arnica
montana}) of Europe; called also leopard's bane.
Mountain witch (Zool.), a ground pigeon of Jamaica, of the
genus Geotrygon.
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Nousel
(gcide) | Nousel \Nous"el\, Nousle \Nou"sle\, v. t. [See Noose.]
To insnare; to entrap. [Obs.] --Johnson.
[1913 Webster] NoutheNoursle \Nour"sle\, v. t. [Freq., fr. OE. nourse. See Nurse.]
To nurse; to rear; to bring up. [Obs.] [Written also nosel,
nousel, nousle, nowsle, nusle, nuzzle, etc.]
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She noursled him till years he raught. --Spenser.
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nousel
(gcide) | Nousel \Nous"el\, Nousle \Nou"sle\, v. t. [See Noose.]
To insnare; to entrap. [Obs.] --Johnson.
[1913 Webster] NoutheNoursle \Nour"sle\, v. t. [Freq., fr. OE. nourse. See Nurse.]
To nurse; to rear; to bring up. [Obs.] [Written also nosel,
nousel, nousle, nowsle, nusle, nuzzle, etc.]
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She noursled him till years he raught. --Spenser.
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Ring ousel
(gcide) | Ring \Ring\, n. [AS. hring, hrinc; akin to Fries. hring, D. & G.
ring, OHG. ring, hring, Icel. hringr, DAn. & SW. ring; cf.
Russ. krug'. Cf. Harangue, Rank a row,Rink.]
A circle, or a circular line, or anything in the form of a
circular line or hoop.
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2. Specifically, a circular ornament of gold or other
precious material worn on the finger, or attached to the
ear, the nose, or some other part of the person; as, a
wedding ring.
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Upon his thumb he had of gold a ring. --Chaucer.
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The dearest ring in Venice will I give you. --Shak.
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3. A circular area in which races are or run or other sports
are performed; an arena.
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Place me, O, place me in the dusty ring,
Where youthful charioteers contend for glory. --E.
Smith.
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4. An inclosed space in which pugilists fight; hence,
figuratively, prize fighting. "The road was an
institution, the ring was an institution." --Thackeray.
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5. A circular group of persons.
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And hears the Muses in a ring
Aye round about Jove's alter sing. --Milton.
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6. (Geom.)
(a) The plane figure included between the circumferences
of two concentric circles.
(b) The solid generated by the revolution of a circle, or
other figure, about an exterior straight line (as an
axis) lying in the same plane as the circle or other
figure.
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7. (Astron. & Navigation) An instrument, formerly used for
taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring
suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through
which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the
graduated inner surface opposite.
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8. (Bot.) An elastic band partly or wholly encircling the
spore cases of ferns. See Illust. of Sporangium.
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9. A clique; an exclusive combination of persons for a
selfish purpose, as to control the market, distribute
offices, obtain contracts, etc.
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The ruling ring at Constantinople. --E. A.
Freeman.
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Ring armor, armor composed of rings of metal. See {Ring
mail}, below, and Chain mail, under Chain.
Ring blackbird (Zool.), the ring ousel.
Ring canal (Zool.), the circular water tube which surrounds
the esophagus of echinoderms.
Ring dotterel, or Ringed dotterel. (Zool.) See
Dotterel, and Illust. of Pressiroster.
Ring dropper, a sharper who pretends to have found a ring
(dropped by himself), and tries to induce another to buy
it as valuable, it being worthless.
Ring fence. See under Fence.
Ring finger, the third finger of the left hand, or the next
the little finger, on which the ring is placed in
marriage.
Ring formula (Chem.), a graphic formula in the shape of a
closed ring, as in the case of benzene, pyridine, etc. See
Illust. under Benzene.
Ring mail, a kind of mail made of small steel rings sewed
upon a garment of leather or of cloth.
Ring micrometer. (Astron.) See Circular micrometer, under
Micrometer.
Saturn's rings. See Saturn.
Ring ousel. (Zool.) See Ousel.
Ring parrot (Zool.), any one of several species of Old
World parrakeets having a red ring around the neck,
especially Palaeornis torquatus, common in India, and
Palaeornis Alexandri of Java.
Ring plover. (Zool.)
(a) The ringed dotterel.
(b) Any one of several small American plovers having a
dark ring around the neck, as the semipalmated plover
(Aegialitis semipalmata).
Ring snake (Zool.), a small harmless American snake
(Diadophis punctatus) having a white ring around the
neck. The back is ash-colored, or sage green, the belly of
an orange red.
Ring stopper. (Naut.) See under Stopper.
Ring thrush (Zool.), the ring ousel.
The prize ring, the ring in which prize fighters contend;
prize fighters, collectively.
The ring.
(a) The body of sporting men who bet on horse races.
[Eng.]
(b) The prize ring.
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Rock ousel
(gcide) | Ousel \Ou"sel\ ([oo^]"z'l), n. [OE. osel, AS. [=o]sle; akin to
G. amsel, OHG. amsala, and perh. to L. merula blackbird. Cf.
Merle, Amsel.] (Zool.)
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.]
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Rock ousel (Zool.), the ring ousel.
Water ousel (Zool.), the European dipper ({Cinclus
aquaticus}), and the American dipper ({Cinclus
Mexicanus}).
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Spouseless
(gcide) | Spouseless \Spouse"less\, a.
Destitute of a spouse; unmarried.
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Tousel
(gcide) | Tousel \Tous"el\, v. t.
Same as Tousle. [Colloq.]
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Unhouseled
(gcide) | Unhouseled \Un*hou"seled\, a.
Not having received the sacrament. [Obs.] [Written also
unhouselled.]
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To die like the houseless dog on yonder common,
unshriven and unhouseled. --Sir W.
Scott.
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unhouselled
(gcide) | Unhouseled \Un*hou"seled\, a.
Not having received the sacrament. [Obs.] [Written also
unhouselled.]
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To die like the houseless dog on yonder common,
unshriven and unhouseled. --Sir W.
Scott.
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Water ousel
(gcide) | Ousel \Ou"sel\ ([oo^]"z'l), n. [OE. osel, AS. [=o]sle; akin to
G. amsel, OHG. amsala, and perh. to L. merula blackbird. Cf.
Merle, Amsel.] (Zool.)
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.]
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Rock ousel (Zool.), the ring ousel.
Water ousel (Zool.), the European dipper ({Cinclus
aquaticus}), and the American dipper ({Cinclus
Mexicanus}).
[1913 Webster]Water ousel \Wa"ter ou"sel\, Water ouzel \Wa"ter ou"zel\ .
(Zool.)
Any one of several species of small insessorial birds of the
genus Cinclus (or Hydrobates), especially the European
water ousel (Cinclus aquaticus), and the American water
ousel (Cinclus Mexicanus). These birds live about the
water, and are in the habit of walking on the bottom of
streams beneath the water in search of food.
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carousel
(wn) | carousel
n 1: a conveyer belt that carries luggage to be claimed by air
travelers [syn: carousel, carrousel, {luggage
carousel}, luggage carrousel]
2: a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride or
amusement [syn: carousel, carrousel, merry-go-round,
roundabout, whirligig] |
carrousel
(wn) | carrousel
n 1: a conveyer belt that carries luggage to be claimed by air
travelers [syn: carousel, carrousel, {luggage
carousel}, luggage carrousel]
2: a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride or
amusement [syn: carousel, carrousel, merry-go-round,
roundabout, whirligig] |
houselights
(wn) | houselights
n 1: lights that illuminate the audience's part of a theater or
other auditorium |
luggage carousel
(wn) | luggage carousel
n 1: a conveyer belt that carries luggage to be claimed by air
travelers [syn: carousel, carrousel, {luggage
carousel}, luggage carrousel] |
luggage carrousel
(wn) | luggage carrousel
n 1: a conveyer belt that carries luggage to be claimed by air
travelers [syn: carousel, carrousel, {luggage
carousel}, luggage carrousel] |
mouselike
(wn) | mouselike
adj 1: of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a
mouse; "a mousy brownish-grey color"; "mousy hair";
"mouse-colored hair" [syn: mousy, mousey, {mouse-
colored}, mouselike] |
ousel
(wn) | ousel
n 1: common black European thrush [syn: blackbird, merl,
merle, ouzel, ousel, European blackbird, {Turdus
merula}] |
houseless
(devil) | HOUSELESS, adj. Having paid all taxes on household goods.
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