Noun

(en noun)

(colloquial) Any strepsirrhine primate of the infraorder Lemuriformes, superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands.

The genus Lemur , represented by the ring-tailed lemur ().

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, year=1758 , author=Linnaeus, C. , title=Systema Naturæ , volume=1 , edition=10 citation , publisher=Laurentius Salvius , location=Stockholm, Sweden , pages=29–30 , pageurl=http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726922 }}

(obsolete) The genus for a loris (), predating the 10th edition of Systema Naturæ .

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, year=1754 , author=Linnaeus, C. , title=Museum Adolphi Friderici Regis citation , publisher=Typographia Regia , location=Stockholm, Sweden , page=3–4 , pageurl=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k972707/f36.image , passage="Lemures dixi hos, quod noctu imprimis obambulant, hominibus quodanmodo similes, & lento passu vagantur." , translation=[I call them lemurs , because they go around mainly by night, in a certain way similar to humans, and roam with a slow pace.] }}

Noun

(mice)

Any small rodent of the genus Mus .

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*:At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.

(lb) A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling such a rodent.

A quiet or shy person.

(lb) (plural'' mice''' ''or, rarely,'' ' mouses ) An input device that is moved over a pad or other flat surface to produce a corresponding movement of a pointer on a graphical display.

(lb) Hematoma.

(lb) A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straighening out.

(lb)

:(Shakespeare)

A match used in firing guns or blasting.

(lb) A small model of (a fragment of) (Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory) with desirable properties (depending on the context).