mouses

Verb

mouse (third-person singular simple present mouses, present participle mousing, simple past and past participle moused)

1. (intransitive) To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around).
2. (intransitive) To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats.
3. (transitive) 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.
4. (intransitive) To navigate by means of a computer mouse.
   • I had just moused to the File menu and the pull-down menu repeated the menu bar's hue a dozen shades lighter.1988, MacUser, volume 4
5. (nonce-word, obsolete, transitive) To tear, as a cat devours a mouse.
   • [Death] mousing the flesh of men.c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

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