Mouse-ear

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• Mouse

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

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• 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

• Ear

  ·noun The organ of hearing; the external ear. II. Ear ·noun ·same·as <<Crossette>>. III. Ear ·noun...

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• Ear

  Used frequently in a figurative sense (Ps. 34:15). To "uncover the ear" is to show respect to a pers...

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• ear

  A west-country term for a place where hatches prevent the influx of the tide. ...

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• Sea mouse

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

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• Water mouse

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

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• flying-mouse

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

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

• jumping-mouse

  n. See hapalote. ...

  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...

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• Bear's-ear

  ·noun A kind of primrose (Primula auricula), so called from the shape of the leaf. ...

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• Crop-ear

  ·noun A person or animal whose ears are cropped. ...

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• Dog's-ear

  ·noun The corner of a leaf, in a book, turned down like the ear of a dog. ...

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• Ear-bored

  ·adj Having the ear perforated. ...

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• Ear-minded

  ·add. ·adj Thinking chiefly or most readily through, or in terms related to, the sense of hearing; s...

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• Ear-piercer

  ·noun The <<Earwig>>. ...

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• Ear-shell

  ·noun A flattened marine univalve shell of the genus Haliotis; — called also sea-ear. ·see <<Abalon...

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• Ear-splitting

  ·adj Deafening; disagreeably loud or shrill; as, ear-splitting strains. ...

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• Hare's-ear

  ·noun An umbelliferous plant (Bupleurum rotundifolium ); — so named from the shape of its leaves. ...

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• Hart's-ear

  ·noun An Asiatic species of Cacalia (C. Kleinia), used medicinally in India. ...

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• Jew's-ear

  ·noun A species of fungus (Hirneola Auricula-Judae, / Auricula), bearing some resemblance to the hum...

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• Lion's ear

  ·- A name given in Western South America to certain plants with shaggy tomentose leaves, as species ...

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• Midas's ear

  ·- A pulmonate mollusk (Auricula, / Ellobium, aurismidae); — so called from resemblance to a human ...

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• Sea-ear

  ·noun Any species of ear-shaped shells of the genus Haliotis. ·see <<Abalone>>. ...

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• Violet-ear

  ·add. ·noun Any tropical humming bird of the genus Petasophora, having violet or purplish ear tufts....

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• White-ear

  ·noun The <<Wheatear>>. ...

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• ear-shot

  The distance or range of hearing. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• ear-wigging

  Feeding an officer's ear with scandal against an absent individual. ...

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• raising a mouse

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

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• Mouse Alley, East Smithfield

  See Dean Street. ...

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