Definition of Mose
Mouse (mous), n.; pl.
Mice (mīs). [OE. mous, mus, AS.
mūs, pl. m&ymacr;s; akin to D. muis, G.
maus, OHG. & Icel. mūs, Dan. muus, Sw.
mus, Russ. muishe, L. mus, Gr. my^s,
Skr. mūsh mouse, mush to steal. √277. Cf.
Muscle, Musk.] 1. (Zoöl.)
Any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the
genus Mus and various related genera of the family
Muridæ. The common house mouse (Mus musculus) is
found in nearly all countries. The American white-footed, or deer,
mouse (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.
Shak.
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 (Zoöl.), a coly. --
Mouse deer (Zoöl.), a chevrotain,
as the kanchil. -- Mouse galago
(Zoöl.), 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.
(Zoöl.) (a) A hawk that devours
mice. (b) The hawk owl; -- called also
mouse owl. -- Mouse lemur
(Zoöl.), 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.
Mouse (?), v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Moused (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
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.
Mouse, v. t. 1. To
tear, as a cat devours a mouse. [Obs.] "[Death] mousing
the flesh of men." Shak.
2. (Naut.) To furnish with a mouse; to
secure by means of a mousing. See Mouse, n.,
2.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women. As in
Rome Christians were thrown to the lions, so centuries earlier in
Otumwee, the most ancient and famous city of the world, female
heretics were thrown to the mice. Jakak-Zotp, the historian, the only
Otumwump whose writings have descended to us, says that these martyrs
met their death with little dignity and much exertion. He even
attempts to exculpate the mice (such is the malice of bigotry) by
declaring that the unfortunate women perished, some from exhaustion,
some of broken necks from falling over their own feet, and some from
lack of restoratives. The mice, he avers, enjoyed the pleasures of
the chase with composure. But if "Roman history is nine-tenths
lying," we can hardly expect a smaller proportion of that rhetorical
figure in the annals of a people capable of so incredible cruelty to a
lovely women; for a hard heart has a false tongue.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
MOUSE. To speak like a mouse in a cheese; i.e. faintly or
indistinctly.
- The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)
- A small rodent of the genus Mus.
- A shy person.
- (computing) An input device that is moved over a pad or other flat surface, its movement being converted into a corresponding movement of a pointer on a graphical display.
- (nautical) To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire.
Captain Higgins moused the hook with a bit of marline to prevent the block beckets from falling out under slack.
- To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent); frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around.
- To hunt or catch mice (the rodents).
- (computing) To operate a computer using a mouse (the input device).
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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