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Ouʹzel

The blackbird; sometimes the thrush is so called. (Anglo-Saxon, õsle, a blackbird.) Bottom speaks of the “ousel cock, so black of hue with orange tawny bill.” (Midsummer Night’s Dream.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.