meusen.

Brit.

/mjuːs/,

/mjuːz/, U.S.

/mjuz/

Forms: 1500s meuze, 1500s mows, 1500s– muce, 1500s– muse, 1600s muise, 1600s– meuse, 1700s muish, 1700s– mews, 1700s– mewse, 1800s muese (Scottish), 1800s– meesh, 1800s– mooce, 1800s– moose.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French muce.

Etymology: < Middle French muce, musse, mouce hiding place, secret place (1190 in Old French as muce ; only from 1561 in spec. sense 1a; French regional (central and western) musse hiding place, hole in a hedge) < mucier , mucer to hide, conceal oneself (second half of the 12th cent.; compare Anglo-Norman muscier , muscer , mucier , etc.; also Italian (regional) mucciare , muccire to flee) < an unidentified reflex of the Celtic base of Early Irish múch smoke, Welsh mwg smoke, which in turn is related to the Germanic base of smoke v. Compare mitch v., muset n.¹ Compare slightly earlier maze n.² and discussion at that entry.Recorded in Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. in very widespread English regional use.

Now British regional.

a. A gap in a fence or hedge through which hares, rabbits, etc., pass, esp. as a means of escape; (also) a man-made track or tunnel for leading hares, rabbits, etc., into a trap. Cf. run n.² 12a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > by habitat > habitat > [noun] > gap through which animal passes

meuse1523

creeper1845

creep1875

pop-hole1878

the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting area > [noun] > gap

meuse1523

muset1594

musser1611

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Lepus (hares) > lepus europaeus (hare) > gap through which hare passes

meuse1523

1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 1384 He wrate of a muse [1568 mows] throw a mud wall; How a do cam trippyng in at the rere warde.

1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lix. 164 She..will all the daye long holde the same wayes..and passe through the same muses untill hir death or escape.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. xlviii. 612 This herbe is founde in this Countrie in the Meuze of Corne feeldes.

1599 S. Harsnett Discov. Fraudulent Pract. I. Darrel 140 But the Fox was neare driuen when he took this muce and hee ferreted out of it by verie pregnant depositions.

1623 T. Scott High-waies of God 55 A Hare started before Greyhounds will haue her accustomed way and muse, or die for it.

1754 W. Cowper Epist. to R. Lloyd 52 The virtuoso..The gilded butterfly pursues O'er hedge and ditch, through gaps and mews.

1756 Gentleman's Mag. 26 180 The most effectual method of destroying hares is by laying snares..in the muishes of hedges, dykes, and other fences.

1779 H. B. Dudley Flitch Bacon ii. i. 26 You may steal, like a young leveret thro' her meuse, into my shrubbery.

1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 1206 A sort of small trap door, to which they are led by a narrow track or meuse. The rabbits, being thus taken [etc.].

1812 W. B. Daniel Rural Sports (new ed.) I. 587 The Tipe or trap..consists of a large pit or Cistern, covered with a floor, with a small trap door, nicely balanced, near its centre, into which the rabbits are led by a narrow Meuse.

1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 8 531 It is doubted whether the stoutest March hare will have sufficient vivacity to carry him to his muese.

1884 R. Lawson Upton-on-Severn Words & Phrases 22 Them Welshmen [sc. Welsh sheep]'d go through a rabbit run or a har' muce.

1886 W. Barnes Gloss. Dorset Dial. Meesh, the run or lair of a hare.

1895 Athenæum 2 Mar. 285/3 In a stone-wall country you will not find a hare close to the lee side..because of the concentrated wind which whistles through every ‘meuse’.

1972 G. E. Evans & D. Thomson Leaping Hare vi. 75 An unusual method of catching hares..appears to have been extensively used by poachers in addition to the more common device of snaring or netting at the smiles or meuses.

2006 T. Williamson Archaeol. Rabbit Warrens vi. 54 (caption) A narrow wooden tunnel or muce runs through the wall and across the top of the pit; here there is a small trap-door in the tunnel floor.

†b. In extended use: a means of escape; (a device affording) a way out of a difficulty. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [noun] > means of escape

posternc1475

outgatec1485

resorta1500

meuse1528

gap1548

evasiona1555

outscapea1555

way1574

outlet1625

subterfuge1761

bolting-hole1789

flighta1822

getaway1876

out1919

bolt-hole1932

1528 J. Skelton Honorificatissimo: Replycacion agaynst Yong Scolers sig. Avi Howe..ye had..deuyllysshely deuysed The people to seduce And chase them thorowe the muse Of your noughty counsell.

1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xvi. cii. 404 When desprate Ruffins fraught with faults finde readily a Meuse.

1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 184 In this Tragedy the Pope observing how the English Bishops had forsaken their Archbishop, espied a muse through which all the game of the Popedome might soon escape.

1655 R. Fanshawe tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad iii. lxxix Stopt is each Meuse, and guarded in each part.

1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma xxix. 116 The Major, after trying every meuse, and every twist, and every turn..was at length obliged to whip off.

†2. The form or lair of a hare; occasionally with reference to other animals of the chase. Obsolete.In 16th and 17th centuries frequently in proverbial sayings, as a hare without a meuse, every hare has its meuse, etc.

ΘΚΠ

formc1290

maze1486

meuse1585

squat1590

muset1594

stool1607

hare-warren1647

seat1735

1585 S. Robson Choise of Change sig. Miii Things very hard or not at all to be found. A hare without a muse...A whore without a skuse.

1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades vii. 123 As when a crew of gallantes watch, the wild muse of a bore.

1600 N. Breton Pasquils Fooles-cap (rev. ed.) sig. D2^v Hee that squats a Hare within a furrowe, And sees how shee within her Muce doth Nuzzle.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vi. vii. 199/2 Like to fearfull Hares..who no sooner shall heare the crie of their pursuit, but their Muise or Fortresse will be left.

1627 W. Hawkins Apollo Shroving v. iv. 86 Ludio The Nine Muses play at Nine-holes: euery Muse hath her hole. Thur. Yes, and euery Hare hath her Muse.

1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 353 Smoot, a hare muce; or any small gap or hole in the bottom of a hedge.

1890 J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester Mews, a hare's form.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

meusev.

Brit.

/mjuːs/,

/mjuːz/, U.S.

/mjuz/

Forms: 1600s muce, 1600s– meuse, 1900s– muse.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: meuse n.

Etymology: < meuse n.

Now chiefly English regional.

intransitive. To go or escape through (or as if through) a meuse.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [verb (intransitive)] > find means of escape

meuse1681

the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > work done by hounds > action of hounds [verb (intransitive)] > other actions of hounds

to be at bayc1515

blemish1575

to give the hare a turn1575

wrench1686

lurch1824

meuse1827

stream1849

smeuse1851

water1855

to run into shot1884

1681 T. A. Religio Clerici 55 Their [sc. the Romanists'] boldest champions, to avoid the danger of a close pursuit, muce nimbly, and sculk in the subterfuges of this thorny wilderness.

1827 Sporting Mag. 20 201 (note) In counties so close as Yorkshire, hounds must occasionally meuse, when smaller hounds have advantage.

1854 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross (new ed.) xliv. 335 Impervious thickets, through which hounds meuse, but horses can make no way.

a1903 in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 98/1 [Worcestershire] When, in coursing, a hare is found in a field, and runs through her muse, it is said ‘the hare has mus'd’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	meuse
释义	meusen. Brit. /mjuːs/, /mjuːz/, U.S. /mjuz/ Forms: 1500s meuze, 1500s mows, 1500s– muce, 1500s– muse, 1600s muise, 1600s– meuse, 1700s muish, 1700s– mews, 1700s– mewse, 1800s muese (Scottish), 1800s– meesh, 1800s– mooce, 1800s– moose. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French muce. Etymology: < Middle French muce, musse, mouce hiding place, secret place (1190 in Old French as muce ; only from 1561 in spec. sense 1a; French regional (central and western) musse hiding place, hole in a hedge) < mucier , mucer to hide, conceal oneself (second half of the 12th cent.; compare Anglo-Norman muscier , muscer , mucier , etc.; also Italian (regional) mucciare , muccire to flee) < an unidentified reflex of the Celtic base of Early Irish múch smoke, Welsh mwg smoke, which in turn is related to the Germanic base of smoke v. Compare mitch v., muset n.¹ Compare slightly earlier maze n.² and discussion at that entry.Recorded in Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. in very widespread English regional use. Now British regional. 1. a. A gap in a fence or hedge through which hares, rabbits, etc., pass, esp. as a means of escape; (also) a man-made track or tunnel for leading hares, rabbits, etc., into a trap. Cf. run n.² 12a. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habitat > habitat > [noun] > gap through which animal passes meuse1523 creeper1845 creep1875 pop-hole1878 the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting area > [noun] > gap meuse1523 muset1594 musser1611 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Lepus (hares) > lepus europaeus (hare) > gap through which hare passes meuse1523 1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 1384 He wrate of a muse [1568 mows] throw a mud wall; How a do cam trippyng in at the rere warde. 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lix. 164 She..will all the daye long holde the same wayes..and passe through the same muses untill hir death or escape. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. xlviii. 612 This herbe is founde in this Countrie in the Meuze of Corne feeldes. 1599 S. Harsnett Discov. Fraudulent Pract. I. Darrel 140 But the Fox was neare driuen when he took this muce and hee ferreted out of it by verie pregnant depositions. 1623 T. Scott High-waies of God 55 A Hare started before Greyhounds will haue her accustomed way and muse, or die for it. 1754 W. Cowper Epist. to R. Lloyd 52 The virtuoso..The gilded butterfly pursues O'er hedge and ditch, through gaps and mews. 1756 Gentleman's Mag. 26 180 The most effectual method of destroying hares is by laying snares..in the muishes of hedges, dykes, and other fences. 1779 H. B. Dudley Flitch Bacon ii. i. 26 You may steal, like a young leveret thro' her meuse, into my shrubbery. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 1206 A sort of small trap door, to which they are led by a narrow track or meuse. The rabbits, being thus taken [etc.]. 1812 W. B. Daniel Rural Sports (new ed.) I. 587 The Tipe or trap..consists of a large pit or Cistern, covered with a floor, with a small trap door, nicely balanced, near its centre, into which the rabbits are led by a narrow Meuse. 1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 8 531 It is doubted whether the stoutest March hare will have sufficient vivacity to carry him to his muese. 1884 R. Lawson Upton-on-Severn Words & Phrases 22 Them Welshmen [sc. Welsh sheep]'d go through a rabbit run or a har' muce. 1886 W. Barnes Gloss. Dorset Dial. Meesh, the run or lair of a hare. 1895 Athenæum 2 Mar. 285/3 In a stone-wall country you will not find a hare close to the lee side..because of the concentrated wind which whistles through every ‘meuse’. 1972 G. E. Evans & D. Thomson Leaping Hare vi. 75 An unusual method of catching hares..appears to have been extensively used by poachers in addition to the more common device of snaring or netting at the smiles or meuses. 2006 T. Williamson Archaeol. Rabbit Warrens vi. 54 (caption) A narrow wooden tunnel or muce runs through the wall and across the top of the pit; here there is a small trap-door in the tunnel floor. †b. In extended use: a means of escape; (a device affording) a way out of a difficulty. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [noun] > means of escape posternc1475 outgatec1485 resorta1500 meuse1528 gap1548 evasiona1555 outscapea1555 way1574 outlet1625 subterfuge1761 bolting-hole1789 flighta1822 getaway1876 out1919 bolt-hole1932 1528 J. Skelton Honorificatissimo: Replycacion agaynst Yong Scolers sig. Avi Howe..ye had..deuyllysshely deuysed The people to seduce And chase them thorowe the muse Of your noughty counsell. 1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xvi. cii. 404 When desprate Ruffins fraught with faults finde readily a Meuse. 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 184 In this Tragedy the Pope observing how the English Bishops had forsaken their Archbishop, espied a muse through which all the game of the Popedome might soon escape. 1655 R. Fanshawe tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad iii. lxxix Stopt is each Meuse, and guarded in each part. 1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma xxix. 116 The Major, after trying every meuse, and every twist, and every turn..was at length obliged to whip off. †2. The form or lair of a hare; occasionally with reference to other animals of the chase. Obsolete.In 16th and 17th centuries frequently in proverbial sayings, as a hare without a meuse, every hare has its meuse, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Lepus (hares) > lepus europaeus (hare) > lair or breeding place formc1290 maze1486 meuse1585 squat1590 muset1594 stool1607 hare-warren1647 seat1735 1585 S. Robson Choise of Change sig. Miii Things very hard or not at all to be found. A hare without a muse...A whore without a skuse. 1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades vii. 123 As when a crew of gallantes watch, the wild muse of a bore. 1600 N. Breton Pasquils Fooles-cap (rev. ed.) sig. D2^v Hee that squats a Hare within a furrowe, And sees how shee within her Muce doth Nuzzle. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vi. vii. 199/2 Like to fearfull Hares..who no sooner shall heare the crie of their pursuit, but their Muise or Fortresse will be left. 1627 W. Hawkins Apollo Shroving v. iv. 86 Ludio The Nine Muses play at Nine-holes: euery Muse hath her hole. Thur. Yes, and euery Hare hath her Muse. 1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 353 Smoot, a hare muce; or any small gap or hole in the bottom of a hedge. 1890 J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester Mews, a hare's form. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022). meusev. Brit. /mjuːs/, /mjuːz/, U.S. /mjuz/ Forms: 1600s muce, 1600s– meuse, 1900s– muse. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: meuse n. Etymology: < meuse n. Now chiefly English regional. intransitive. To go or escape through (or as if through) a meuse. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [verb (intransitive)] > find means of escape meuse1681 the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > work done by hounds > action of hounds [verb (intransitive)] > other actions of hounds to be at bayc1515 blemish1575 to give the hare a turn1575 wrench1686 lurch1824 meuse1827 stream1849 smeuse1851 water1855 to run into shot1884 1681 T. A. Religio Clerici 55 Their [sc. the Romanists'] boldest champions, to avoid the danger of a close pursuit, muce nimbly, and sculk in the subterfuges of this thorny wilderness. 1827 Sporting Mag. 20 201 (note) In counties so close as Yorkshire, hounds must occasionally meuse, when smaller hounds have advantage. 1854 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross (new ed.) xliv. 335 Impervious thickets, through which hounds meuse, but horses can make no way. a1903 in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 98/1 [Worcestershire] When, in coursing, a hare is found in a field, and runs through her muse, it is said ‘the hare has mus'd’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1523v.1681
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