ouse

plural ouses

1. countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete spelling of ooze.

present singular third person ouses · participle present ousing · participle past oused · past oused

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of ooze.

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.

   1786 [1834], William Cowper, The Task Book 1 in Poems, 254

   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.
2. A locality in Central Highlands Council, central Tasmania, Australia.