mousing

English

Verb

mousing

1. Present participle of mouse.

Noun

mousing (plural mousings)

1. The act of hunting mice.
2. (nautical) 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.

Adjective

mousing (comparative more mousing, superlative most mousing)

1. Impertinently inquisitive; prying; meddlesome.
   • L'Estrange

     Mousing saints.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.