Definitions for mousing

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mousing mous·ing

Spelling: [mou-zing]

IPA: /ˈmaʊ zɪŋ/

Mousing is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 160 anagrams from letters in mousing (gimnosu).

Definitions for mousing

noun

1. a wrapping of several turns of small stuff around the shank end of a hook.
2. any of numerous small Old World rodents of the family Muridae, especially of the genus Mus, introduced widely in other parts of the world.
3. any similar small animal of various rodent and marsupial families.
4. a quiet, timid person.
5. 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).
6. Informal. a swelling under the eye, caused by a blow or blows; black eye.
7. 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 mousing

First recorded in 1825-35; mouse + -ing¹

Examples for mousing

She had lived since 1864 in inland waters, mousing about rivers, and lying comfortably in mudbanks.

We do not care to have any mousing Tory know just what we intend to do.

Away with such skepticism, we say, and the mousing criticism by which it is sometimes attempted to be supported.

As one of family—cat (lady), elderly; would give slight services (mousing, etc.) in return for comfortable home.

And slowly, with his mousing walk, he led the way back to the first site.

A 'mousing owl' would have seen better at midnoon than to have done it.

Stevenson was once asked by a mousing astrologer to state the date of his birth.

The Evening Sun reporter, in mousing about saw an alarm clock by the dead man's side with the hand pointing to seven o' clock.

The strung sinews relaxed, and the great cat began to purr as though she had never dreamt of mousing.

This mousing owl will search the crannies even of a woman's wits ere he sate his appetite for discovery.