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As a noun mouse

is any small rodent of the genus mus .

As a verb mouse

is to move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around ).

As a proper noun wolf is

the constellation or wolf can be .

mouse

English

Noun

(mice)
  • Any small rodent of the genus Mus .
  • *
  • *: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).

    • Hypernyms

    * (small rodent) rodent

    Coordinate terms

    * (small rodent) rat * (input device) joystick, trackpad, trackball, pointing stick

    Derived terms

    * (as) quiet as a mouse * cat and mouse * church mouse * deer mouse * dormouse * fieldmouse * house mouse * kangaroo mouse * mouseable, mousable * mouse button * mouse click * mouse-ear * mouse mat * mouse pad * mouser * mousetrap * mousy * optical mouse * play cat and mouse * poor as a church mouse * when the cat's away the mice will play

    Verb

    (mous)
  • 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), usually of cats.
  • (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.
  • (computing) To navigate by means of a computer mouse.
  • * 1988 , MacUser: Volume 4
    • I had just moused to the File menu and the pull-down menu repeated the menu bar's hue a dozen shades lighter.
  • * 2009 , Daniel Tunkelang, Faceted Search (page 35)
    • Unlike the Flamenco work, the Relation Browser allows users to quickly explore a document space using dynamic queries issued by mousing over facet elements in the interface.
  • (obsolete, nonce, transitive) To tear, as a cat devours a mouse.
  • * Shakespeare
    • [Death] mousing the flesh of men.

    Derived terms

    * mouse around * mouse over * mouser

    Related terms

    * muscle * mussel

    See also

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    Anagrams

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    wolf

    English

    Noun

    (wolves)
  • A large wild canid of certain subspecies of Canis lupus .
  • A man who makes amorous advances on many women.
  • (music) A wolf tone or wolf note; an unpleasant tone produced when a note matches the natural resonating frequency of the body of a musical instrument, the quality of which may be likened to the howl of a wolf.
  • One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
  • (figurative) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
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  • A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.
  • (obsolete) An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side.
  • A willying machine.
    • (Knight)
    (Webster 1913)

    Hypernyms

    * (large wild canid) Canis lupus , canid

    Hyponyms

    * (large wild canid) she-wolf

    Coordinate terms

    * (large wild canid) dingo, dog ; coyote, jackal, fox (other canids)

    Derived terms

    (terms derived from "wolf") * Big Bad Wolf * cry wolf * grey wolf, gray wolf * Mexican wolf * raised by wolves * red wolf * sea wolf * she-wolf * Tasmanian wolf * werewolf * white wolf * wolf cub * wolf down * wolf in sheep's clothing * wolf interval * wolfie * wolfish * wolflike * wolf tone * wolven

    Verb

  • To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.
  • * 1987 , James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia
    • After a wolfed burger dinner, I called the night number at Administrative Vice and inquired about known lesbian gathering places.
  • * 2013 , Neil Martin, Collected Stories of the Sea
    • Vicars seated himself and began wolfing a sandwich.

    Synonyms

    * gulp down, wolf down

    External links

    * (wikipedia)

    Anagrams

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