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- English Word Mourning Definition of Mourn
- English Word Mourning Definition The act of sorrowing or expressing grief; lamentation; sorrow.
- English Word Mourning Definition Garb, drapery, or emblems indicative of grief, esp. clothing or a badge of somber black.
- English Word Mourning Definition Grieving; sorrowing; lamenting.
- English Word Mourning Definition Employed to express sorrow or grief; worn or used as appropriate to the condition of one bereaved or sorrowing; as, mourning garments; a mourning ring; a mourning pin, and the like.
- English Word Mourningly Definition In a mourning manner.
- English Word Mournival Definition See Murnival.
- English Word Mouse Definition Any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus Mus and various related genera of the family Muridae. The common house mouse (Mus musculus) is found in nearly all countries. The American white-footed, or deer, mouse (Hesperomys leucopus) sometimes lives in houses. See Dormouse, Meadow mouse, under Meadow, and Harvest mouse, under Harvest.
- English Word Mouse Definition A knob made on a rope with spun yarn or parceling to prevent a running eye from slipping.
- English Word Mouse Definition Same as 2d Mousing, 2.
- English Word Mouse Definition A familiar term of endearment.
- English Word Mouse Definition A dark-colored swelling caused by a blow.
- English Word Mouse Definition A match used in firing guns or blasting.
- English Word Mouse Definition To watch for and catch mice.
- English Word Mouse Definition To watch for or pursue anything in a sly manner; to pry about, on the lookout for something.
- English Word Mouse Definition To tear, as a cat devours a mouse.
- English Word Mouse Definition To furnish with a mouse; to secure by means of a mousing. See Mouse, n., 2.
- English Word Mouse-ear Definition The forget-me-not (Myosotis palustris) and other species of the same genus.
- English Word Mouse-ear Definition A European species of hawkweed (Hieracium Pilosella).
- English Word Moused Definition of Mouse
- English Word Mousefish Definition See Frogfish.
- English Word Mousehole Definition A hole made by a mouse, for passage or abode, as in a wall; hence, a very small hole like that gnawed by a mouse.
- English Word Mousekin Definition A little mouse.
- English Word Mouser Definition A cat that catches mice.
- English Word Mouser Definition One who pries about on the lookout for something.
- English Word Mousetail Definition A genus of ranunculaceous plants (Myosurus), in which the prolonged receptacle is covered with imbricating achenes, and so resembles the tail of a mouse.
- English Word Mousie Definition Diminutive for Mouse.
- English Word Mousing Definition of Mouse
- English Word Mousing Definition Impertinently inquisitive; prying; meddlesome.
- English Word Mousing Definition The act of hunting mice.