jumping-mouse

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• Jumping

  (·p.a. & ·vb.n.) of Jump, to leap. II. Jumping ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Jump>>. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Mouse

  ·noun ·same·as 2d Mousing, 2. II. Mouse ·vi To watch for and catch mice. III. Mouse ·noun A famili...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Mouse

  Heb. akhbar, "swift digger"), properly the dormouse, the field-mouse (1 Sam. 6:4). In Lev. 11:29, Is...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• mouse

  To speak like a mouse in a cheese; i.e. faintly or indistinctly. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• to mouse

  'To go mousing about,' is to go poking about into holes and corners. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• mouse

  A kind of ball or knob, wrought on the collars of stays by means of spun-yarn, higher parcelling, &c...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Mouse

  (the corn-eater). The name of this animal occurs in (Leviticus 11:29; 1 Samuel 6:4,5; Isaiah 66:17) ...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Jumping disease

  ·add. ·- A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Mai...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• buck-jumping

  Bucking verbal nouns. 1855. W. Howitt, `Two Years in Victoria,' vol. i. p. 43: «At length it shoo...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• Mouse-ear

  ·noun A European species of hawkweed (Hieracium Pilosella). II. Mouse-ear ·noun The forget-me-not (...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Sea mouse

  ·- The <<Dunlin>>. II. Sea mouse ·- A dorsibranchiate annelid, belonging to Aphrodite and allied ge...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Water mouse

  ·- Any one of several species of mice belonging to the genus Hydromys, native of Australia and Tasma...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• flying-mouse

  n. See opossum-mouse and flying-phalanger. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• kangaroo-mouse

  n. more strictly called the Pouched-Mouse (q.v.). 1888. D. Macdonald, `Gum Boughs,' p. 256: «It i...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• opossum-mouse

  n. the small Australianmarsupial, Acrobates pygmaeus, Shaw; more correctlycalled the Pigmy Flying-P...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• pouched-mouse

  n. the vernacular name adoptedfor species of the genera Phascologale (q.v.), Sminthopsis, Dasyuroid...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• sea-mouse

  The Aphrodita aculeata, a marine annelid, remarkable for the brilliant iridescence of the long silky...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• raising a mouse

  The process of making a lump on a stay. (See mouse.) ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Mouse Alley, East Smithfield

  See Dean Street. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.