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One of the long, pliable twigs of this plant, or of other somilar plants. The rank of osiers by the murmuring stream. Shak. Osier bed, or Osier holt, a place where willows are grown for basket making. [Eng.] -- Red osier. (a) A kind of willow with reddish twigs (Salix rubra). (b) An American shrub (Cornus stolonifera)…

Covered or adorned with osiers; as, osiered banks. [Poetic] Collins.

An osier bed.

A tailor who botches his work. [Obs.] Shak.

The pastoral staff of a bishop (also of an archbishop, being the symbol of his office as a shepherd of the flock of God.

Bearing a crosier.

A nickname given to an inhabitant of the State of Indiana. [U.S.]

Indiana; -- a nickname of obscure origin.

One who deals in hose or stocking, or in goods knit or woven like hose.

The business of a hosier.

A rosebush; roses, collectively. [Obs.] Crowned with a garland of sweet rosier. Spenser.

Air in motion; a light breeze; a gentle wind. Let vernal airs through trembling osiers play. Pope.

An islet, or little isle, in a river or lake; an eyot. The ait where the osiers grew. R. Hodges (1649). Among green aits and meadows. Dickens.

A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. "Rude baskets . . . woven of the flexile willow." Dyer.

Wattles, or hurdles, made with stakes interwoven with osiers, to cover lodgments. [Obs.]

Any species of the genus Cornus, as C. florida, the flowering cornel; C. stolonifera, the osier cornel; C. Canadensis, the dwarf cornel, or bunchberry.

See Cosier.

A creel or osier basket.

An osier basket, such as anglers use. Sir W. Scott.

See Crosier.