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and v. An obsolete variant of ooze. ouzel, ousel (ö'zl), n. [Prop., as formerly, oozel; called amzel. See cut under blackbird. House-doves are white, and oozels blackebirds bee, Yet what a difference in the taste we see. The Affectionate Shepheard (1594). ( Hall i well .) The ousel cock so black of hue, With orange-tawny bill. Shak., M. N. D., iii. 1. 128. The mellow ouzel fluted in the elm. Tennyson, Gardener's Daughter. 2. Some other thrush or thrush-like bird, as the ring-ouzel, Turdus torquatus or Merula torquata . See cut in next column. - Brook-ouzel, the water rail, Rallus aquatic us . [Local, Eng.]-Water-ouzel, a dipper; any bird of the family Cinclidæ . See cuts under Cinclidæ and dipper . ova, n. Plural of ovum. ovall (o'val), a. and n. [F. ovale = Sp. Pg. oval = It. ovale, 4192 Ring-ouzel ( Merula torquata ). an egg, tine shapes. That the Ibis feeding upon Serpents, that venemous food so inquinated their ovall conceptions or egges within their bodies that they sometimes came forth in Serpen2. Having the shape of or resembling the longitudinal section of an egg; hence, elliptical. Mercurius, nearest to the central sun, Does in an oval orbit circling run. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Epid., 7. Sir R. Black more , Creation, ii. The oval dingy-framed toilet-gla that hangs above her table. Hawthorne , Seven Gables, ii. 3. In zoöl. and bot., broadly elliptical, or elliptical with the breadth considerably more than half the length. Oval notes a shape or figure resembling a compre ed circle (or ellipse), equally rounded at both ends; ovate notes the true egg shape, which is small. er at one end than at the other. See egg - shaped. - Oval chuck, compa , etc. See the nouns. II. n. 1. A figure in the general shape of the lengthwise outline of an egg, or resembling resembli the longitudinal section of an egg. (a) A closed curve everywhere convex, without nodes, and more pointed at one end than at the other. (b) A curve or part of a curve returning into itself without a node or cusp. (c) A part of a curve returning into itself without inflections or double tangents. 2. Something which has such a shape, as a plot of ground, or an open place in a city: acity: as, Berke ley oval; "The Oval " at Kensington, London. The principall part thereof [the Mosque] riseth in an ovall, surrounded with pillars admirable for their prop or tion, matter, and workmanship. Sandys, Travailes, p. 24. 3. Specifically, same as cartouche, 4. The names of the kings whose ovals have been found have been mentioned already. C. R. Gillett , And over Rev., VIII. 88. Bicircular, Cartes i an, Ca inian, conjugate, etc., oval. See the adjectives. - Carpenter's oval, an irregular closed curve, formed of four arcs of circles having their centers at the vertices of a rhombus and joining one another so as not to make angles. oval2+ (o'val), a. [L. oval is, o lis, of or belonging to an ovation, Garden of Cyrus, ii. ovalescent (o-va-les'ent), a. [ [NL., neut. pl. of ML. oval is, oval: see ovall.] In Latreille's system, læmodipodous crusta shorter and broader one of two sections of ceans, having the form than in the Filiform i a. The whale-lice, Cya mid a, are an example. See cut under Cyamida. oval i form (o'val-i-fôrm), a. [ shaped. oval-lanceolate (ō'val-lan'sē-ō-lāt), a. In bot., lanceolate inclining to oval. ovally (ō'val-i), adv. In an oval form; so as to be oval. ovalne (ō'val-nes), n. The property of being oval; oval shape or formation. ovaloid (o'val-oid), a. [ sembling an oval in shape; somewhat oval. ovantt (o'vant), a. [L.ovan( t- ) s, ppr. of ovare, exult, rejoice, triumph: see ovation.] Triumphing with an ovation. IMG:content-1995.jpg:[blocks in formation] ovary