Definition of mouse

"mouse" in the noun sense

1. mouse

any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails

2. shiner, black eye, mouse

a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye

3. mouse

person who is quiet or timid

4. mouse, computer mouse

a hand-operated electronic device that controls the coordinates of a cursor on your computer screen as you move it around on a pad on the bottom of the device is a ball that rolls on the surface of the pad

"a mouse takes much more room than a trackball"

"mouse" in the verb sense

1. sneak, mouse, creep, pussyfoot

to go stealthily or furtively

"..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house"

2. mouse

manipulate the mouse of a computer

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Quotations for mouse

Two cats and one mouse,
Two wives in one house,
Two dogs at one bone,
Can never agree in one. [ Proverb ]

Silence catches a mouse. [ Proverb ]

The cat sees not every mouse. [ Proverb ]

Today a man, tomorrow a mouse. [ Proverb ]

The cat sees not the mouse ever. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

To speak like a mouse in a cheese. [ Proverb ]

Pour not water on a drowning mouse. [ Proverb ]

Can a mouse fall in love with a cat? [ Proverb ]

The cat invites the mouse to a feast. [ Proverb ]

Let not the mouse-trap smell of blood. [ Proverb ]

The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser. [ T. Brake ]

The mountains have brought forth a mouse. [ Proverb ]

The usurer and younkier are cat and mouse. [ Proverb ]

A lion may come to be beholding to a mouse. [ Proverb ]

A mouse, in time, may shear a cable asunder. [ Proverb ]

She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse. [ Swift ]

A mouse that has only one hole is soon taken. [ French Proverb ]

Better a mouse in the pot than no flesh at all. [ Proverb ]

What is sport to the cat is death to the mouse. [ Opitz ]

No house without mouse; no throne without thorn. [ Proverb ]

It is a bold mouse that nestles in the cat's ear. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The mouse that hath but one hole, is easily caught. [ Proverb ]

I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heir. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The mouse knows well when the cat's out of the house. [ Proverb ]

It must be a wily mouse that can breed in a cat's ear. [ Proverb ]

A mouse-trap; easy to enter, but not easy to get out of. [ Mrs. Balfour ]

A mouse must not think to cast a shadow like an elephant. [ Proverb ]

I never whisper'd a private affair
Within the hearing of cat or mouse,
No, not to myself in the closet alone,
But I heard it shouted at once from the top of the house;
Everything came to be known. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Though your enemy seem a mouse, yet watch him like a lion. [ Proverb ]

He who kills a lion when absent, fears a mouse when present. [ Proverb ]

If the frog and mouse quarrel, the kite will see them a greed. [ Proverb ]

For a dead one I am not at home; I am like the cat with the mouse. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Mephistopheles ]

When the frog and mouse would take up the quarrel, the kite decided it. [ Proverb ]

You converse daily with the devil, and pretend to be frighted with a mouse. [ Proverb ]

A jealous man is suspicious, evermore judging the worst; for if his wife be merry, he thinketh her immodest; if sober, sullen; if pleasant, unconstant; if she laugh, it is lewdly; if she look, it is lightly; yea, he is still casting beyond the moon, and watcheth as the crafty cat over the silly mouse. [ J. Bodenham ]

mouse in Scrabble®

The word mouse is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters mouse:

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mouse in Words With Friends™

The word mouse is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters mouse:

MOUSE
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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word mouse

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Words within the letters of mouse

2 letter words in mouse (6 words)

3 letter words in mouse (7 words)

4 letter words in mouse (4 words)

5 letter words in mouse (1 word)

mouse + 1 blank (6 words)

Word Growth involving mouse

Shorter words in mouse

us use

Longer words containing mouse

coalmouse

dormouse dormouses

fieldmouse fieldmouses

mousebane

mousebird mousebirds

moused

mousefish mousefishes

mousehawk mousehawks

mousehole mouseholes

mouselike

mouseover mouseovers

mousepad mousepads

mousepox

mouseproof

mouser mousers

mouses dormouses

mouses fieldmouses

mouses pompelmouses

mouses titmouses

mousetrap mousetrapped

mousetrap mousetrapping

mousetrap mousetraps

mousey

nonmouse

staymouse

titmouse titmouses