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Ouse

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Various rivers in England.

    "Here Ouse, slow-winding through a level plain Of spacious meads with cattle sprinkled o’er, Conducts the eye along his sinuous course Delighted."

  2. 2
    Various rivers in England.; River Ouse, Yorkshire: A river in North Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire.
  3. 3
    Various rivers in England.; River Ouse, Sussex: A river in both West Sussex and East Sussex.
  4. 4
    Various rivers in England.; River Great Ouse, Northamptonshire and East Anglia.
  5. 5
    Various rivers in England.; River Little Ouse, a tributary of the River Great Ouse.
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  1. 6
    A locality in Central Highlands Council, central Tasmania, Australia.
Verb
  1. 1
    Dated form of ooze. alt-of, dated

Etymology

From Old English Usa, probably of Romano-British Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *udso-, from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“water”).

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