ouze

Most distressfully (but, my dear, how successfully!) to wail he did, his locks of a lucan tinge, quickrich, ripely rippling, unfilleted, those lashbetasselled lids on the verge of closing time, whiles ouze of his sidewiseopen mouth the breath of him, evenso languishing as the princeliest treble treacle or lichee chewchow purse could buy.

Finnegans Wake 2006

Transvaal Boers fined him $500 for writing about “ouze felt”, OUR country, and imprisoned him, too, till the fine was paid.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Arter that they tu be goin 'vor' oneymun over ta 'ardland in li'le ol' 'ouze.

Leonie of the Jungle Joan Conquest

* Her coodn't lave 'ouze by raison of the Chirstmas bakkon comin' on, and zome

Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor 1862

The depth of water is eight or nine fathom with an ouze bottom.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr 1784

In some places this _coral stone_ is covered by great quantities of green ouze or sleech, and in other places it is free from this growth.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr 1784

In coming back from the Indies, instead of this passage, they take the channel of Manaar, which has an ouze bottom, so that even in case of grounding they are generally got off again without damage.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 Robert Kerr 1784

In some places this ouze or sleech is very bright green, and in others of an orange-tawny colour.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr 1784

When within three leagues of the land we sounded and had 28 fathoms over a ground of black ouze.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 Robert Kerr 1784

At nine o'clock we anchored about two leagues from the land in 23 fathoms, on soft sand, like ouze or mud.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr 1784