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noun

Mousing n.

The act of hunting mice.

(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.

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."

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Etymology of 'Mousing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mousing" Quotes from Famous Books

... accommodation of the men, and the charge for keeping the tools sharp was ten cents a week for each man, or $5 a year. For twenty years no fault had been found with the arrangement; it had been looked upon as satisfactory, especially by the men. A walking delegate, mousing around the mine, and finding no other cause for complaint, had lighted upon this practice, and he told the men it was a shame that they should have to pay ten cents a week out of their hard-earned wages for keeping their tools sharp. He said that it was the business of the property ...

— The Fat of the Land - The Story of an American Farm • John Williams Streeter

... certainly there was an omen—a glee that had nothing to do with mirth; and more dismaying, perhaps, than his sternest rebuke. If a man is not a laugher by nature, he had better let it alone. The bipeds that love mousing and carrion have a chant of their own, and nobody quarrels with it. We respect an owl or a raven, though we mayn't love him, while he sticks to his croak or to-whoo. 'Tisn't pleasant, but quite natural and unaffected, ...

— The House by the Church-Yard • J. Sheridan Le Fanu

... there is a little lounging about the caffe, a little stir on holidays among the lower classes and the neighboring peasants, a great deal of gossip at all times, and hardly anything more. The local nobleman, perhaps, cultivates literature as Leopardi's father did; there is always some abbate mousing about in the local archives and writing pamphlets on disputed points of the local history; and there is the parish priest, to help form the polite society of the place. As if this social barrenness were not enough, ...

— Modern Italian Poets • W. D. Howells