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.

a. The action of hunting or catching mice.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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.].

a. Nautical. The action of putting a collar on a rope or stay to prevent slippage. Now historical.

ΚΠ

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.

ΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΚΠ

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

ΚΠ

1727 C. Pitt Poems & Transl. 171 All her Mousing-Days were o'er.

mousing-place n. rare

ΚΠ

1856 F. E. Paget Owlet of Owlstone Edge 11 Fold-yards, and other good mousing-places.

C2. (In sense 2.)

mousing-arm n.

ΚΠ

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

ΚΠ

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1486/1 A mousing-block of caoutchouc.

mousing hook n.

ΚΠ

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

ΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

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.

ΘΚΠ

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).

单词	mousing
释义	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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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 ΚΠ 1727 C. Pitt Poems & Transl. 171 All her Mousing-Days were o'er. mousing-place n. rare ΚΠ 1856 F. E. Paget Owlet of Owlstone Edge 11 Fold-yards, and other good mousing-places. C2. (In sense 2.) mousing-arm n. ΚΠ 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 ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1486/1 A mousing-block of caoutchouc. mousing hook n. ΚΠ 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 ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1680adj.a1616
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