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Mousing   Listen
noun
Mousing  n.  
1.
The act of hunting mice.
2.
(Naut.) A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straighening out.
3.
A ratchet movement in a loom.
Mousing hook, a hook with an attachment which prevents its unhooking.


adjective
Mousing  adj.  Impertinently inquisitive; prying; meddlesome. "Mousing saints."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Mousing" Quotes from Famous Books



... bawds, and sold at doors, like stale flesh in baskets. Then, for your honesty, or justness, as you call it, to your keepers, your kept-mistress is originally a punk; and let the cat be changed into a lady never so formally, she still retains her natural property of mousing. ...
— The Works of John Dryden, Vol. 6 (of 18) - Limberham; Oedipus; Troilus and Cressida; The Spanish Friar • John Dryden
... twenty-five feet over all. She had lived since 1864 in inland waters, mousing about rivers, and lying comfortably in mudbanks. She had a sprit seventeen foot outboard, and I appeal to the Trinity Brothers to explain what that means; a sprit dangerous and horrible where there are ...
— Hills and the Sea • H. Belloc
... moving slowly across the lawn again towards the house. I presently heard the wind mousing softly in the limes. The air was fresh and cool. The first stars were out. I saw the laburnum drooping, as though thick clusters of these very stars had drifted earthwards among the branches; I saw the gleam of the lilac; ...
— The Garden of Survival • Algernon Blackwood


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