单词 | to mouse out |
释义 | > as lemmasto mouse out ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > search for or seek [verb (transitive)] > patiently and carefully to search out?1560 to mouse out1853 1853 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Aug. 156 I had moused out that Mr. Bulkley was a staunch Federalist, of the extremest sort. 1864 N.Y. Evangelist 20 Oct. He..usually returned laden with boxes and bundles of literary odds and ends, moused from rural attics and bought or begged for his collection. 1865 Harper's Mag. July 225/2 Now do you go over to the Navy Department and mouse out what he is fit for. 1870 H. Stevens Bibliotheca Historica Introd. 11 They are driven..to mouse out in foreign countries..what ought to be at home..in the public libraries. 1889 Overland Monthly 14 461/2 Books, moused out of a deep, dark closet, where they had been stored and long since forgotten. < as lemmas |
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