1. Any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails
   "A mouse scurried across the kitchen floor"
    
2. A hand-operated electronic device that controls the coordinates of a cursor on your computer screen as you move it around
   "a mouse takes much more room than a trackball";
   - computer mouse
    
3. Person who is quiet or timid
   "The shy mouse of a student rarely spoke up in class"
    
4. A swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye
   "The child got a mouse from walking into a door";
   - shiner [informal], black eye

1. Manipulate the mouse of a computer
   "He moused over the icon to see the tooltip"
    
2. Move stealthily or furtively
   "..stead of mousing around spying on the neighbour's house";
   - sneak, creep, pussyfoot [informal]
    
3. Hunt or catch mice
   "The cat moused in the barn all night"

Derived forms: moused, mice, mouses, mousing

Type of: bruise, contusion, electronic device, gnawer, individual, manipulate, mortal, person, rodent, somebody, someone, soul, walk

Encyclopedia: Mouse, Mary