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单词 mousing
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mousingn.

Brit. /ˈmaʊsɪŋ/, /ˈmaʊzɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmaʊsɪŋ/, /ˈmaʊzɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mouse v., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < mouse v. + -ing suffix1. In sense 1c, perhaps after mouse n. 3c.
1.
a. The action of hunting or catching mice.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting specific animals > [noun] > catching mice (of cat or owl)
mousing1680
1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper iii. i. 25 Let the Cat be chang'd into a Lady never so formally, she still retains her natural property of Mousing.
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables lxxxi. 79 An Old Weazle that was now almost past Mousing.
1709 W. King Useful Trans. in Philos. Mar.–Apr. 43 So, Sir Oliver continues his Pastime of Mousing.
1831 C. A. Bowles Cat's Tail 15 In..each manly diversion—Birding, mousing, and scrambling, no matter how high, Not a cat of his inches with Merlin could vie.
1856 F. E. Paget Owlet of Owlstone Edge 10 Ever since her accident, my mother finds mousing much more difficult.
1856 F. E. Paget Owlet of Owlstone Edge 41 For the present I must cease, and go a mousing.
1871 Ladies' Repository 8 65/2 Mousing and ratting is the chief end of a cat.
1964 M. Maltese (title of film) Much ado about mousing.
1997 Scotsman 17 May 16/6 The cat, from Morningside, came with a middle-class accent, excellent references and..a City and Guild certificate in Intermediate Mousing.
b. U.S. The action of searching or rummaging for something; an instance of this. Now rare.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > [noun] > types of search or searching > rummaging or thorough searching
ransack1579
rummaging1622
ferreting1859
mousing1870
1870 H. Stevens Bibliotheca Historica 223 It has been the good fortune of the writer, in his bibliographical mousings up and down the world, to light upon the original paintings.
1875 E. C. Stedman Victorian Poets (ed. 13) 179 This may be..a result of his mousing among Pre-Chaucerian ballads.
c. U.S. College slang. ‘Necking’, petting. Cf. mouse n. 3c.
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the mind > emotion > love > action of caressing > [noun] > fondling, embracing, or caressing
necking1825
mousing1941
1941 Life 27 Jan. 79/2 A great proportion of Subdebese has been coined to cover the situations arising out of the mutual urge for association between them and their male friends... Mugging, gooing it, mousing, Hector's pecking,..all of which was once known..as plain necking.
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §355/1 Caressing,..mauling, mousing, mugging, [etc.].
2.
a. Nautical. The action of putting a collar on a rope or stay to prevent slippage. Now historical.
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1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster III. viii. 116 He..was better pleased when superintending the mousing of a stay or the strapping of a block.
1972 P. O'Brian Post Captain vii. 190 He saw his foot slip as he scrambled in towards the mast—those horses wanted mousing.
b. Chiefly Nautical. The action of fastening spun yarn or rope, etc., round the point and shank of a hook, to prevent it from slipping off the hook to which it is attached. Also concrete: the rope or yarn so fastened; a latch which similarly connects the point and the shank of a hook.
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1844 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 7 35/1 The two parts of the hook thus formed, when affixed to the rigging, are secured by a cord or ‘mousing’.
a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1486/1 Mousing,..(Nautical) a lashing or latch connecting the bill with the shank of a hook.
1883 Man. Seamanship for Boys' Training Ships Royal Navy 62 The sheet is fitted in various ways—viz., sometimes with clip-hook, or a common hook and mousing, or a screw-hook.
1927 G. Bradford Gloss. Sea Terms 117/1 Mousing, a piece of small stuff seized across the hook of a block for the purposes of safety.
1982 P. Clissold Layton's Dict. Naut. Words (rev. ed.) 301 Self-Mousing Hook, hook having a spring mousing that allows easy hooking on, but prevents accidental unhooking.
3. A part similar to a ratchet-wheel in the mechanism of a loom. Obsolete. rare.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > cog or gear > ratchet
ratch1696
ratchet wheel1736
ratchet1744
ratch-wheel1744
racket wheel1758
catch wheel1786
mousing1875
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1486/1 Mousing,..a ratchet movement in a loom.
4. Computing. The action or process of using a mouse to operate a computer.
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1985 PC (Nexis) 14 May 83 PC's editors have just come off an incredible binge of mousing, as we pointed and clicked our way through Top View.
1994 Guardian 25 Aug. ii. 20/1 IntelliPoint Home software..provides..practical features designed to make mousing around more fun.
1999 New Yorker 6 Dec. 36/2 A little assiduous mousing around will turn up more than a few arcane sites.

Compounds

C1. (In sense 1a.)
mousing-day n. Obsolete rare
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1727 C. Pitt Poems & Transl. 171 All her Mousing-Days were o'er.
mousing-place n. rare
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1856 F. E. Paget Owlet of Owlstone Edge 11 Fold-yards, and other good mousing-places.
C2. (In sense 2.)
mousing-arm n.
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a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 619 In the Raines mousing hook a draft upon the hook brings the mousing-arm in apposition with the point of the hook.
mousing-block n. rare
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1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1486/1 A mousing-block of caoutchouc.
mousing hook n.
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1860 Sci. Amer. 12 May 317/3 For an Improved Mousing Hook: I claim, as an improved article of manufacture, a hook, A..as shown.
a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1486/1 Mousing-hook, a hook secured by a mousing passing around its two branches and closing its mouth, in order to prevent it from straightening out when supporting a heavy weight or to obviate the danger of unshipping.
1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 45 Samples of Patent Mousing Hook, for all kinds of hooks.
1982 P. Clissold Layton's Dict. Naut. Words (rev. ed.) 229 Mousing Hook, ‘self-mousing hook.’
mousing-link n. rare
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1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1486/1 A gravitating mousing-link which throws off from the point when the load on the hook is suddenly lightened.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mousingadj.

Brit. /ˈmaʊsɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmaʊsɪŋ/
Forms: see mouse v. and -ing suffix2.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mouse v., -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < mouse v. + -ing suffix2.
1. That hunts or catches mice.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting specific animals > [adjective] > hunting mice (of cat or owl)
mousinga1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. iv. 13 A Faulcon towring in her pride of place, Was by a Mowsing Owle hawkt at, and kill'd. View more context for this quotation
1658 N. Billingsley Κοσμοβρεϕια: Infancy of World vii. 39 The mouzing Cat, Which sees as well by night as day.
1824 H. F. Cary tr. Aristophanes Birds iii. vii. 134 Give me then wings, and be they swift and light, A hawk's, or mousing owl's.
1873 R. E. Egerton-Warburton Hunting Songs (new ed.) 111 The mousing owl he spares not, flitting through the twilight dim.
1904 W. H. Hudson in Speaker 9 Jan. 359/2 The gentle mousing wind-hover has a nobler spirit than any crow of them all.
1946 D. Thomas Deaths & Entrances 26 The cattle stirring, the mousing cat stepping shy.
1983 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 10 Aug. 21 This cloud rolls up from a mousing hawk and a farmer tarps the day's last haul of wheat.
2. In extended use: prying, prowling, inquisitive; rapacious; that hunts as a cat does.
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the mind > attention and judgement > [adjective] > unduly
curiousa1340
inquisitive1529
prying1552
peering1568
speculative1605
emissitious1620
peeking1680
mousing1692
peery1699
long-nebbed1706
inquisitorial1796
nosy1827
nebby1860
inscrutive1882
rootin' tootin'1882
snoopy1895
stickybeak1917
nibby1942
pirooting1958
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables cccxviii. 279 The Mouse that took this Cat for a Saint, has very Good Company... For we have seen a whole Assembly of these Mousing Saints, that under the Masque of Zeal, Conscience, and Good Nature, have made a Shift to lay I know not how many Kingdoms in Bloud and Ashes.
1867 Felton's Greece, Anc. & Mod. II. 521 The dialects..will have become..obsolete curiosities for the researches of the mousing antiquarian.
1883 H. C. Lodge Daniel Webster iii. 107 One Parker Noyes, a mousing, learned New Hampshire lawyer.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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