单词 | black ouzel |
释义 | > as lemmasblack ouzel a. The (European) blackbird, Turdus merula. More fully (English regional) black ouzel. Now archaic and regional.Some of these quots. may refer to the ring ouzel (sense 1b). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Turdus (thrush) > turdus merula (blackbird) ouzeleOE blackbirdc1350 merula1398 merle1483 black-mack1519 blackie1841 eOE Épinal Gloss. (1974) 36 Merula, oslae. eOE Corpus Gloss. (1890) 78/1 Merula, oslę. eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in J. J. Quinn Minor Lat.-Old Eng. Glossaries in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1956) 18 Merula, osle. a1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Cambr.) (1929) 711 (MED) En branche set le menue merle [glossed] osel [v.rr. hoselbrit, ooselbrid, oslebird, usel]. c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1906) 24* (MED) Pardys plouer et merle, Partrik plouer and osele [glossed blacbrid]. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 187 (MED) Þe wesels be blak among vs; þere þey beeþ white. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 237 (MED) In toune as it longes Þe osul [L. merulus] twytereþ mery songes. a1475 Bk. Hawking (Harl. 2340) in Studia Neophilol. (1944) 16 18 (MED) Sperhaukes..moste haue tendere mete as Sparrous, eysoges, owsilles, and þresches, and oþer smale briddes. ?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 86v A Nosyll, quedam Auis, merulus, merula. 1492 tr. Dyalogus Salomon & Marcolphus sig. bii As the owsell whystelyth so answeryth the thrusshe. 1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 20 b Blacke byrdes or ousyls, amonge wylde fowle hath the chiefe prayse. 1594 R. Barnfield Affectionate Shepheard ii. x. sig. Ci Gins and wyles, the Oozels to beguile. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. i. 118 The Woosell cock, so blacke of hewe, With Orange tawny bill. 1632 R. Brome Northern Lasse iv. iv What an Owsell tis! shee meanes hee shall marry her for a Song. 1746 W. Thompson Hymn to May xxvii. 17 The ouzle sweetly shrill. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Gardener's Daughter in Poems (new ed.) II. 23 The mellow ouzel fluted in the elm. 1843 G. P. R. James Forest Days I. x. 190 It is difficult there to know a carrion crow from an ousel. 1875 Lanc. Gloss. Black-ousel, the blackbird. 1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 147/2 Uzzle, ussel, ouzel, or blackussel, the blackbird. 1952 R. S. Thomas Acre of Land 13 The ousel singing in the woods of Cilgwri, Tirelessly as a stream over the mossed stones. 1966 Jrnl. Lancs. Dial. Soc. Jan. 12 Children round Accrington sixty years ago believed that the male and female were separated species—the Black Ouzel and the Brown Ouzel. 1991 Guardian (Nexis) 8 Aug. ‘A black ousel!’ he [sc. the young D. H. Lawrence] would say. ‘There is such a thing. It's a blackbird. I looked ousel up.’ 1994 A. Kellett Yorks. Dict. 192/2 Uzzle, blackbird. < as lemmas |
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