Definitions for mouses

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mouses mouse

Spelling: [noun mous; verb mouz]

IPA: /noun maʊs; verb maʊz/

Mouses is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in mouses (emossu).

Definitions for mouses

noun

1. any of numerous small Old World rodents of the family Muridae, especially of the genus Mus, introduced widely in other parts of the world.
2. any similar small animal of various rodent and marsupial families.
3. a quiet, timid person.
4. Computers. a palm-sized, button-operated pointing device that can be used to move, select, activate, and change items on a computer screen. Compare joystick (def 2), stylus (def 3).
5. Informal. a swelling under the eye, caused by a blow or blows; black eye.
6. Slang. a girl or woman.

verb (used with object)

1. to hunt out, as a cat hunts out mice.
2. Nautical. to secure with a mousing.

verb (used without object)

1. to hunt for or catch mice.
2. to prowl about, as if in search of something:
3. to seek or search stealthily or watchfully, as if for prey.
4. Computers. to use a mouse to move the cursor on a computer screen to any position.

Origin of mouses

before 900; Middle English mous (plural mis), Old English mūs (plural mȳs); cognate with German Maus, Old Norse mūs, Latin mūs, Greek mŷs

Examples for mouses

Then the cat carried the mouse to the house in which the chest stood.

Lockwood continued to watch Duncan with the air of a cat eyeing a mouse.

Even the original score to the song labels the singing parts, “mouse” (the woman) and “Wolf” (the man).

That thing had me fooled; I thought at first it was a Russian mouse hound.

In another study, children saw a puppet show where a mouse was eaten by an alligator.

It is better to be torn to pieces at a spring, than to be a mouse at the caprice of such a cat.'

The episode was titled “Cat and mouse” and it follows in the pattern of classic Serlingesque plot twists.

In the event, in the long cat and mouse game that Stalin played with him, the cat did not pounce.

The mouse gnawed a hole in the chest, and fetched out the ring.

So Western governments are caught in a cat-and-mouse game and at times it is unclear who is the cat and who the mouse.