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Arranged in many rows, or series, as the scales of a pine cone, or the leaves of the houseleek.

To nurse; to rear; to bring up. [Obs.] [Written also nosel, nousel, nousle, nowsle, nusle, nuzzle, etc.] She noursled him till years he raught. Spenser.

ort prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. See Illust. of Houseleek.

Same as Ousel. The mellow ouzel fluted in the elm. Tennyson.

. See Ring mail, below, and Chain mail, under Chain. -- Ring blackbird (Zoöl.), the ring ousel. -- Ring canal (Zoöl.), the circular water tube which surrounds the esophagus of echinoderms. -- Ring dotterel, or Ringed dotterel. (Zoöl.) See Dotterel, and Illust. of Pressiroster. -- Ring dropper, a sharper who pretend…

The houseleek.

A genus of fleshy-leaved plants, of which the houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum) is the commonest species.

The houseleek.

Producing soboles. See Illust. of Houseleek.

juicy. Succulent plants (Bot.), plants which have soft and juicy leaves or stems, as the houseleek, the live forever, and the species of Mesembryanthemum.

Not provided with a house or shelter; houseless; homeless.

The European water ousel, or dipper.

The water ousel.

The European water ousel.

The ring ousel.