Definition of "Ouse"

Ouse

proper noun
1. Various rivers in England.
  Quotations
  Here Ouse, slow-winding through a level plainOf spacious meads with cattle sprinkled o’er,Conducts the eye along his sinuous courseDelighted.
  1786 , 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.