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Mouse   /maʊs/   Listen
noun
Mouse  n.  (pl. mice)  
1.
(Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus Mus and various related genera of the family Muridae. The common house mouse (Mus musculus) is found in nearly all countries. The American white-footed mouse, or deer mouse (Peromyscus leucopus, formerly Hesperomys leucopus) sometimes lives in houses. See Dormouse, Meadow mouse, under Meadow, and Harvest mouse, under Harvest.
2.
(Naut.)
(a)
A knob made on a rope with spun yarn or parceling to prevent a running eye from slipping.
(b)
Same as 2d Mousing, 2.
3.
A familiar term of endearment.
4.
A dark-colored swelling caused by a blow. (Slang)
5.
A match used in firing guns or blasting.
Field mouse, Flying mouse, etc. See under Field, Flying, etc.
Mouse bird (Zool.), a coly.
Mouse deer (Zool.), a chevrotain, as the kanchil.
Mouse galago (Zool.), a very small West American galago (Galago murinus). In color and size it resembles a mouse. It has a bushy tail like that of a squirrel.
Mouse hawk. (Zool.)
(a)
A hawk that devours mice.
(b)
The hawk owl; called also mouse owl.
Mouse lemur (Zool.), any one of several species of very small lemurs of the genus Chirogaleus, found in Madagascar.
Mouse piece (Cookery), the piece of beef cut from the part next below the round or from the lower part of the latter; called also mouse buttock.


verb
Mouse  v. t.  
1.
To tear, as a cat devours a mouse. (Obs.) "(Death) mousing the flesh of men."
2.
(Naut.) To furnish with a mouse; to secure by means of a mousing. See Mouse, n., 2.


Mouse  v. i.  (past & past part. moused; pres. part. mousing)  
1.
To watch for and catch mice.
2.
To watch for or pursue anything in a sly manner; to pry about, on the lookout for something.





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"Mouse" Quotes from Famous Books



... staircase, the sort of staircase one man could easily defend against a mob, leading up there, and I have just heard, through the thickness of the wall, the old fellow going down into their kitchen for something or other. It was a sort of noise a mouse might make behind the plaster of a wall. All the servants they had ran away yesterday and have not returned yet, if ever they do. For the rest, there are only two children here, two girls. The father has sent them downstairs, and they have crept into this cafe, perhaps because I am ...
— Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard • Joseph Conrad
... carriage full of visitors may, perhaps, be seen at long intervals, their spirits sobered by the melancholy that broods over the scene; or a lumbering cart, laden with wine-casks from Ariccia or Albano, drawn by the soft-eyed mouse-coloured oxen of the Campagna, startles the echoes, and betrays its course by the clouds of dust which it raises. There are no sights or sounds of rural toil in the fields on either side of the way. Only a solitary ...
— Roman Mosaics - Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood • Hugh Macmillan
... she did not do it properly. Hence the wolverine was very angry, and he hit her a crack on the head and knocked her into the water. Then he took up the coat and went and found his youngest sister, the mouse. He told her of his troubles, and how the frog had so badly done her work. Then he showed the mouse how he wanted the coat to be sewed. His little sister felt badly for her big brother, and so she set to work and with great care sewed all the pieces together in their right ...
— Algonquin Indian Tales • Egerton R. Young
... you, Red. You ain't got any patience. How does a cat catch a mouse? By sitting down and waiting—maybe three hours. And the hungrier she gets, the longer she'll wait and the stiller she'll sit. A man could take a good ...
— The Rangeland Avenger • Max Brand
... to return to the boulevard. He set about another picture, and spent two months upon it,—eating mouse's meals and ...
— Pierre Grassou • Honore de Balzac


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