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Moused

Mouse \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.

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moused

vb. (en-past of: mouse)

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Moused

moused is a mouse daemon on FreeBSD systems that works with the console driver to support mouse operations in the text console and user programs. It first appeared in FreeBSD 2.2 and is currently located in /usr/sbin/moused.

Usage examples of "moused".

What does matter is that while I was a systems rash with G2S recently I moused around the net considerably more than my employers required of me, and I ran across something I only today spotted as significant.

In fact he moused around so much it started to interfere with his regular work, so he wrote a program into the G2S computers to take care of the routine stuff by itself.

He didn’t look at me as I came in, but moused the slidebar on the bottom of the screen to review my interview with Samson.

He took his card back and moused back to his room, upset, he didn’t know why, except he didn’t know what the terms were or why he was too scared to demand the damn chips go on his card—but he was, and he was ashamed of himself.

Longboy scratched his straw head and then moused around in bulky pockets before coming up with a bent cigarette butt.

The cop was a big, bored-looking guy who moused around the room looking for cigars.