'Mouse' definitions:

Definition of 'mouse'

From: WordNet
noun
Any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails
noun
A swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye [syn: shiner, black eye, mouse]
noun
Person who is quiet or timid
noun
A hand-operated electronic device that controls the coordinates of a cursor on your computer screen as you move it around on a pad; on the bottom of the device is a ball that rolls on the surface of the pad; "a mouse takes much more room than a trackball" [syn: mouse, computer mouse]
verb
To go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house" [syn: sneak, mouse, creep, pussyfoot]
verb
Manipulate the mouse of a computer

Definition of 'Mouse'

From: GCIDE
  • Mouse \Mouse\ (mous), n.; pl. Mice (m[imac]s). [OE. mous, mus, AS. m[=u]s, pl. m[=y]s; akin to D. muis, G. maus, OHG. & Icel. m[=u]s, Dan. muus, Sw. mus, Russ. muishe, L. mus, Gr. my^s, Skr. m[=u]sh mouse, mush to steal. [root]277. Cf. Muscle, Musk.]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A familiar term of endearment. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. A dark-colored swelling caused by a blow. [Slang] [1913 Webster]
  • 5. A match used in firing guns or blasting. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Mouse'

From: GCIDE
  • Mouse \Mouse\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Moused; p. pr. & vb. n. Mousing.]
  • 1. To watch for and catch mice. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To watch for or pursue anything in a sly manner; to pry about, on the lookout for something. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Mouse'

From: GCIDE
  • Mouse \Mouse\, v. t.
  • 1. To tear, as a cat devours a mouse. [Obs.] "[Death] mousing the flesh of men." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Naut.) To furnish with a mouse; to secure by means of a mousing. See Mouse, n., 2. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Mouse'

From: Easton
  • Mouse Heb. 'akhbar, "swift digger"), properly the dormouse, the field-mouse (1 Sam. 6:4). In Lev. 11:29, Isa. 66:17 this word is used generically, and includes the jerboa (Mus jaculus), rat, hamster (Cricetus), which, though declared to be unclean animals, were eaten by the Arabs, and are still eaten by the Bedouins. It is said that no fewer than twenty-three species of this group ('akhbar=Arab. ferah) of animals inhabit Palestine. God "laid waste" the people of Ashdod by the terrible visitation of field-mice, which are like locusts in their destructive effects (1 Sam. 6:4, 11, 18). Herodotus, the Greek historian, accounts for the destruction of the army of Sennacherib (2 Kings 19:35) by saying that in the night thousands of mice invaded the camp and gnawed through the bow-strings, quivers, and shields, and thus left the Assyrians helpless. (See SENNACHERIB.)

Synonyms of 'mouse'

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