mouses Definition

mouse
noun mice, mouses (in sense 3)

1a. Any of various small rodents found worldwide, such as the fieldmouse and harvest mouse, with a grey or brown coat, pointed muzzle, bright eyes, sharp teeth and a long naked tail. Compare rat.
1b. Any of various similar animals, eg voles and shrews.
2. colloq
A very shy, quiet or timid person.
3. computing.
An input device which can be moved around on a flat surface, causing a cursor (sense 1) to move around the computer screen in response. It has one or more buttons which are clicked (see click verb 4) to choose one of a number of specified options displayed.

verb, intr moused, mousing

1. Said of an animal, especially a cat: to hunt mice.
2. To prowl.

Form: mouse about (especially)
Form: mouse around

Derivative: mouser
noun

A cat that catches mice, or is kept especially for catching mice.

Derivative: mousing
noun

Etymology: 1960s in sense 3; Anglo-Saxon mus; plural mys.