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mouse

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES as quiet as a mouse (= very quiet ) ▪ I’ll be as quiet as a mouse . Mickey Mouse ▪ The charity has been described as a Mickey Mouse operation. mouse mat mouse miles COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE dead ▪ What is ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to hunt mice," mid-13c., from mouse (n.). Related: Moused ; mousing .

Usage examples of mouse.

Not a mouse stirring as he walked, and there, under rolling cloud all besilvered, he saw it, the Theatre, with something like disappointment.

Aunt Six says it is all rebels and anarchists here, that there is no custom worthy of the name, that bad children gravitate to Bottommost as slow-girules to root mice.

Only the year before at branding, when an infuriated bull had driven every vaquero out of the corrals, did not Enrique mount his horse, and, after baiting the bull out into the open, play with him like a kitten with a mouse?

I figured to give Sam three nights to get the owners of his new domicile time to get used to the idea that they had more than mice in their attic, but the very next afternoon a little Italian feller with glasses and an umbrella came calling on me while I was grabbing some expresso at a local streetside cafe.

The original invoice charged for too many mice, or else gouged Mandrill outrageously.

I checked and rechecked, but Mandrill paid for two hundred twenty Webber mice, not twenty-two.

James, that could get into a melodeon through a mouse hole, more especially the big maltese you gave me.

Ruskin had designed what he felt was the perfect mousetrap, until Olga pointed out, with what seemed to be family feeling, that these mice had human brains.

Entering the colonnade, Richardson zoomed up to the ceiling and clicking the mouse twice, exploding a detailed diagram of one of the shape-memory steel tube supports for the photochromic glass panels.

The inside of that crown thing looks a lot like the ball-cavity of the mouse on my Mac, two little phototransistors and a reference point.

As he swung around, the dozen or so sapphire-studded Royster pistolettos that swung picturesquely from his shoulder straps clinked and clanked madly, making him seem like a gigantic cat that the mice had belled again and again.

Mouse gloomily, on hands and knees after erring plantlets of Sweet Alice that had seeded among a shallow tub of cacti.

Genetevil, which manufactures Clot-Blocks and Alk-erase, products that use plasminogen activators fermented in mouse milk to aid heart attack victims.

If I quested out, I could sense Nighteyes prowling about, ever alert for the unwary mouse.

Had a bat, or a mouse, gone ahead of him, Gwalchmai would have taken it for a psychopomp guiding his soul to the underworld, but nothing moved except shadows.