Mouse (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
WordNet
noun
(1) Any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails
(2) A hand-operated electronic device that controls the coordinates of a cursor on your computer screen as you move it around on a pad; on the bottom of the device is a ball that rolls on the surface of the pad
"A mouse takes much more room than a trackball"
(3) Person who is quiet or timid
(4) A swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye
verb
(5) Manipulate the mouse of a computer
(6) To go stealthily or furtively
"..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house"
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Etymology
From , from , from , from .
Germanic cognates include Old Frisian , Old Saxon (Dutch ), Old High German (German ), Old Norse (Swedish , Danish , Norwegian , Icelandic , Faroese ).
Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek , Latin , Armenian , Old Church Slavonic (Russian ), Albanian , Persian , Sanskrit
Noun
- Any small rodent of the genus Mus
- A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling such a rodent.
- A quiet or shy person.
- (plural mice or, rarely, mouses) An input device that is moved over a pad or other flat surface to produce a corresponding movement of a pointer on a graphical display.
Verb
- To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around).
- To hunt or catch mice (the rodents).
- 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.