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Mouser   Listen
noun
Mouser  n.  
1.
A cat that catches mice; as, a good mouser is better than a dozen mousetraps.
2.
One who pries about on the lookout for something.





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"Mouser" Quotes from Famous Books



... of his was, that he had a mortal antipathy to the family-mouser, which was ingrained in his nature from his very puppyhood; yet so perfectly absurd was he, that no impertinence on her side, and no baiting on, could ever induce him to lay his mouth on her, or injure her in the slightest degree. There was ...
— Anecdotes of Dogs • Edward Jesse
... sixth domestic, had attained her majority; she had never gone after snakes in her youth, and had always avoided bad company. She did her duty in the house as a good mouser, and when mice grew scarce she went hunting for game; she had a hole under the eaves near the chimney, through which she could enter the hut at any time of the night or day. While Philip was musing after tea on the "Pons Asinorum" by ...
— The Book of the Bush • George Dunderdale


Words linked to "Mouser" :   Felis catus, domestic cat, Felis domesticus, house cat


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