mouse : Idioms & Phrases

• noun widespread in the Arctic and on mountains in Europe
  Alpine mouse-ear; Cerastium alpinum.
  

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• noun any of several small greyish New World mice inhabiting e.g. grain fields
  American harvest mouse.
  

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• noun widespread in the Arctic and on mountains in Europe
  Alpine mouse-ear; Cerastium alpinum.
  

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• noun burrowing mouse of desert areas of southwestern United States
  Peromyscus eremicus.
  

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• noun a game for children in which the players form a circle and join hands; they raise their hands to let a player inside the circle or lower their hands to bar a second player who is chasing the first
  cat and rat.
  

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• noun a fictional mouse created by Lewis Carroll
  

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• noun 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
  mouse.
  
  • a mouse takes much more room than a trackball

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• noun large dark mouse of southeastern United States
  Peromyscus gossypinus.
  

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• (Zool.), a field mouse (Hesperomys gossypinus), injurious to cotton crops.

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• noun brownish New World mouse; most widely distributed member of the genus
  Peromyscus maniculatus.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the white-footed mouse (Hesperomys leucopus) of America.

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• (Zoöl.), an American mouse (Hesperomys eremicus), living in the Western deserts.

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• noun nocturnal yellowish-brown mouse inhabiting woods and fields and gardens
  Apodemus sylvaticus.
  

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• noun any of various small mouselike rodents of the family Cricetidae (especially of genus Microtus) having a stout short-tailed body and inconspicuous ears and inhabiting fields or meadows
  vole.
  
• noun any nocturnal Old World mouse of the genus Apodemus inhabiting woods and fields and gardens
  fieldmouse.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a mouse inhabiting fields, as the campagnol and the deer mouse. See Campagnol, and Deer mouse.

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• etc. See under Field, Flying, etc.

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• noun densely tufted perennial chickweed of north temperate zone
  field chickweed; Cerastium arvense.
  

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• noun tiny flying phalanger
  

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• (Zoöl.), the opossum mouse (Acrobates pygmæus), of Australia. It has lateral folds of skin, like the flying squirrels.

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• noun insectivorous mouse of western North America
  

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• noun any of several small greyish New World mice inhabiting e.g. grain fields
  American harvest mouse.
  
• noun small reddish-brown Eurasian mouse inhabiting e.g. cornfields
  Micromyx minutus.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a very small European field mouse (Mus minutus). It builds a globular nest on the stems of wheat and other plants.

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• noun a variety of dormouse
  Muscardinus avellanarius.
  

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• noun large stiff-haired rodent of shortgrass prairies of United States
  Perognathus hispidus.
  

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• noun brownish-grey Old World mouse now a common household pest worldwide
  Mus musculus.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the common mouse (Mus musculus).

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• noun any of several primitive mouselike rodents with long hind legs and no cheek pouches; of woodlands of Eurasia and North America
  

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• (Zoöl.), North American mouse (Zapus Hudsonius), having a long tail and large hind legs. It is noted for its jumping powers. Called also kangaroo mouse.

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• noun small silky-haired pouched rodent; similar to but smaller than kangaroo rats
  dwarf pocket rat.
  
• noun leaping rodent of Australian desert areas
  

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• . (Zoöl.) See Jumping mouse, under Jumping.

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• noun any of numerous small sharp-nosed insectivorous marsupials superficially resembling mice or rats
  marsupial rat; marsupial mouse.
  

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• noun widely distributed in northeastern and central United States and Canada
  Zapus hudsonius.
  

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• noun widely distributed in grasslands of northern United States and Canada
  Microtus pennsylvaticus; meadow vole.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any mouse of the genus Arvicola, as the common American species A. riparia; called also field mouse, and field vole.

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• noun large pocket mouse of Mexico
  Liomys irroratus.
  

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• noun a fictional mouse created in animated film strips by Walt Disney
  

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• noun a fictional mouse endowed with great strength and courage
  

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• noun the partner of Mickey Mouse
  

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• (Zoöl.), a coly.

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• noun a push button on the mouse
  

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• noun depression of a button on a computer mouse
  click.
  
  • a click on the right button for example

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• noun very small hornless deer-like ruminant of tropical Asia and west Africa
  chevrotain.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a chevrotain, as the kanchil.

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• noun small perennial herb having bright blue or white flowers
  forget-me-not; Myosotis scorpiodes.
  
• noun any of various plants related to the common chickweed
  mouse eared chickweed; clammy chickweed; mouse ear; chickweed.
  

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• noun any of various plants related to the common chickweed
  mouse eared chickweed; clammy chickweed; mouse ear; chickweed.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a very small West American galago (Galago murinus). In color and size it resembles a mouse. It has a bushy tail like that of a squirrel.

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• noun small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America
  rock rabbit; cony; pika; coney.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) A hawk that devours mice . (b) The hawk owl; called also mouse owl.

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of very small lemurs of the genus Chirogaleus, found in Madagascar.

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• noun a small portable pad that provides traction for the ball of a computer mouse
  mousepad.
  

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• noun where mice bear and raise their young
  mouse nest.
  

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• (Cookery), the piece of beef cut from the part next below the round or from the lower part of the latter; called also mouse buttock.

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• noun where mice bear and raise their young
  mouse nest.
  

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• adjective satellite of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse
  mousy; mousey; mouselike.
  
  • a mousy brownish-grey color
  • mousy hair
  • mouse-colored hair

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Mouse"-ear` noun

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1. (Bot.) (a) The forget-me-not (Myosotis palustris) and other species of the same genus. (b) A European species of hawkweed (Hieracium Pilosella).

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• noun any of various plants related to the common chickweed
  mouse eared chickweed; clammy chickweed; mouse ear; chickweed.
  

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• noun a small invasive self-pollinating weed with small white flowers; much studied by plant geneticists; the first higher plant whose complete genome sequence was described
  Arabidopsis thaliana.
  

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• noun European hawkweed having soft hairy leaves; sometimes placed in genus Hieracium
  Hieracium pilocella; Pilosella officinarum.
  

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• adjective satellite having ears like a mouse's
  

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• noun a carnivorous bat with ears like a mouse
  

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• adjective satellite having the approximate size of a mouse
  

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• noun a type of forceps
  

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• noun a variety of rodent
  

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• noun a mouse with a genetic defect that prevents them from growing hair and also prevents them from immunologically rejecting human cells and tissues; widely used in preclinical trials
  

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• . (Zoöl.) See Flying mouse, under Flying.

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• noun short-tailed glossy-furred burrowing vole of the eastern United States
  pine vole; Pitymys pinetorum.
  

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• (Zoöl.), an American wild mouse (Arvicola pinetorum), native of the Middle States. It lives in pine forests.

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• noun small rodent of open areas of United States plains states
  Perognathus flavescens.
  

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• noun any of various small nocturnal burrowing desert rodents with cheek pouches and long hind legs and tail
  

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• (Zoöl.), any species of American mice of the family Saccomyidæ. They have external cheek pouches. Some of them are adapted for leaping (genus Dipadomys), and are called kangaroo mice. They are native of the Southwestern United States, Mexico, etc.

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• noun any of numerous small sharp-nosed insectivorous marsupials superficially resembling mice or rats
  marsupial rat; marsupial mouse.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) See Pocket mouse, under Pocket.

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• noun very small dark greyish brown mouse resembling a house mouse; of Texas and Mexico
  Baiomys taylori.
  

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• noun any of several voles of mountainous regions of Eurasia and America
  redback vole.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a large dark-colored field mouse (Calomys palistris) of the Southern United States.

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• (Zoöl.), the lemming.

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• (Zoöl.), the dunlin. Prov. Eng.

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• noun any of several large worms having a broad flattened body with a mat of coarse hairs covering the back
  

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Sea" mouse`

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) A dorsibranchiate annelid, belonging to Aphrodite and allied genera, having long, slender, hairlike setæ on the sides. (b) The dunlin.

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• noun small pale yellowish soft-furred rodent of southwestern United States and Mexico
  Perognathus flavus.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a European vole (Arvicola nivalis) which inhabits the Alps and other high mountains.

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of African mice of the subfamily Dendromyinæ. They have long claws and habitually live in trees.

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• noun American woodland mouse with white feet and underparts
  Peromyscus leucopus; vesper mouse.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the whitefooted, or deer, mouse. See Illust. of Mouse.

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Wa"ter mouse`

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1. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of mice belonging to the genus Hydromys, native of Australia and Tasmania. Their hind legs are strong and their toes partially webbed. They live on the borders of streams, and swim well. They are remarkable as being the only rodents found in Australia.

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• (Zoöl.), the albino variety of the common mouse.

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• noun American woodland mouse with white feet and underparts
  Peromyscus leucopus; vesper mouse.
  

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• noun any of various New World woodland mice
  

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