Ouse

See also: ouse and -ouse

English

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Ouse

1. Various rivers in England.
   • 1786 [1834], William Cowper, The Task Book 1 in Poems, 254:

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

   1. River Ouse, Yorkshire: A river in North Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire.
   2. River Ouse, Sussex: A river in both West Sussex and East Sussex.
   3. River Great Ouse, Northamptonshire and East Anglia.
   4. River Little Ouse, a tributary of the River Great Ouse.

Derived terms

• Great Ouse
• Linton-on-Ouse
• Little Ouse
• Newton-on-Ouse

Anagrams

• -eous