Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 77
Mourned (imp. & p. p.) of Mourn.
Mourning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mourn.
Mourn (v. i.) To express or to feel grief or sorrow; to grieve; to be sorrowful; to lament; to be in a state of grief or sadness.
Mourn (v. i.) To wear the customary garb of a mourner.
Mourn (v. t.) To grieve for; to lament; to deplore; to bemoan; to bewail.
Mourn (v. t.) To utter in a mournful manner or voice.
Mourne (n.) The armed or feruled end of a staff; in a sheephook, the end of the staff to which the hook is attached.
Mourner (n.) 悲傷者，哀悼者，送葬者 One who mourns or is grieved at any misfortune, as the death of a friend.
Mourner (n.) One who attends a funeral as a hired mourner.
Mourner (n.) A person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) [syn: {mourner}, {griever}, {sorrower}, {lamenter}].
Mournful (a.) Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss.
Mourning (n.) The act of sorrowing or expressing grief; lamentation; sorrow.
Mourning (n.) Garb, drapery, or emblems indicative of grief, esp. clothing or a badge of somber black.
Mourning (a.) Grieving; sorrowing; lamenting.
Mourning (a.) 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.
Mourningly (adv.) In a mourning manner.
Mournival (n.) See Murnival.
Mice (n. pl. ) of Mouse.
Mouse (n.) (Zool.) 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.
Mouse (n.) (Naut.) A knob made on a rope with spun yarn or parceling to prevent a running eye from slipping.
Mouse (n.) (Naut.) Same as 2d Mousing, 2.
Mouse (n.) A familiar term of endearment. -- Shak.
Mouse (n.) A dark-colored swelling caused by a blow. [Slang]
Mouse (n.) A match used in firing guns or blasting.
Field mouse, Flying mouse, etc. See under Field, Flying, etc.
Mouse bird (Zool.), A coly.
Mouse deer (Zool.), A chevrotain, as the kanchil.
Mouse galago (Zool.), A very small West American galago ({Galago murinus). In color and size it resembles a mouse. It has a bushy tail like that of a squirrel.
Mouse hawk. (Zool.) (a) A hawk that devours mice.
Mouse hawk. (Zool.) (b) The hawk owl; -- called also mouse owl.
Mouse lemur (Zool.), Any one of several species of very small lemurs of the genus Chirogaleus, found in Madagascar.
Mouse piece (Cookery), The piece of beef cut from the part next below the round or from the lower part of the latter; -- called also mouse buttock.
Moused (imp. & p. p.) of Mouse.
Mousing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mouse.
Mouse (v. i.) To watch for and catch mice.
Mouse (v. i.) To watch for or pursue anything in a sly manner; to pry about, on the lookout for something.
Mouse (v. t.) To tear, as a cat devours a mouse. [Obs.] "[Death] mousing the flesh of men." -- Shak.
Mouse (v. t.) (Naut.) To furnish with a mouse; to secure by means of a mousing. See Mouse, n., 2.
Mouse (n.) Any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails.
Mouse (n.) A swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye [syn: shiner, black eye, mouse].
Mouse (n.) Person who is quiet or timid.
Mouse (n.) A hand-operated electronic device that controls the coordinates of a cursor on your computer screen as you move it around on a pad; on the bottom of the device is a ball that rolls on the surface of the pad; "a mouse takes much more room than a trackball" [syn: mouse, computer mouse].
Mouse (v.) To go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house" [syn: sneak, mouse, creep, pussyfoot].
Mouse (v.) Manipulate the mouse of a computer.
Mouse, () A mighty small macro language developed by Peter Grogono in 1975.
["Mouse, A Language for Microcomputers", P. Grogono Petrocelli Books, 1983].
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Mouse
Mice
The most commonly used computer pointing device, first introduced by Douglas Engelbart in 1968.
The mouse is a device used to manipulate an on-screen pointer that's normally shaped like an arrow. With the mouse in hand, the computer user can select, move, and change items on the screen.
A conventional roller-ball mouse is slid across the surface of the desk, often on a mouse mat. As the mouse moves, a ball set in a depression on the underside of the mouse rolls accordingly. The ball is also in contact with two small shafts set at right angles to each other inside the mouse.
The rotating ball turns the shafts, and sensors inside the mouse measure the shafts' rotation. The distance and direction information from the sensors is then transmitted to the computer, usually through a connecting wire - the mouse's "tail". The computer then moves the mouse pointer on the screen to follow the movements of the mouse. This may be done directly by the graphics adaptor, but where it involves the processor the task should be assigned a high priority to avoid any perceptible delay.
Some mice are contoured to fit the shape of a person's right hand, and some come in left-handed versions. Other mice are symmetrical.
Included on the mouse are usually two or three buttons that the user may press, or click, to initiate various actions such as running programs or opening files. The left-most button (the primary mouse button) is operated with the index finger to select and activate objects represented on the screen. Different operating systems and graphical user interfaces have different conventions for using the other button(s). Typical operations include calling up a context-sensitive menu, modifying the selection, or pasting text. With fewer mouse buttons these require combinations of mouse and keyboard actions. Between its left and right buttons, a mouse may also have a wheel that can be used for scrolling or other special operations defined by the software. Some systems allow the mouse button assignments to be swapped round for left-handed users.
Just moving the pointer across the screen with the mouse typically does nothing (though some CAD systems respond to patterns of mouse movement with no buttons pressed).
Normally, the pointer is positioned over something on the screen (an icon or a menu item), and the user then clicks a mouse button to actually affect the screen display.
The five most common "gestures" performed with the mouse are: point (to place the pointer over an on-screen item), click (to press and release a mouse button), double-click to press and release a mouse button twice in rapid succession, right-click (to press and release the right mouse button"> right-click (to press and release the right mouse button, and drag (to hold down the mouse button while moving the mouse).
Most modern computers include a mouse as standard equipment. However, some systems, especially portable laptop and notebook models, may have a trackball, touchpad or Trackpoint on or next to the keyboard. These input devices work like the mouse, but take less space and don't need a desk.
Many other alternatives to the conventional roller-ball mouse exist. A tailless mouse, or hamster, transmits its information with infrared impulses. A foot-controlled mouse is one used on the floor underneath the desk. An optical mouse uses a light-emitting diode and photocells instead of a rolling ball to track its position. Some optical designs may require a special mouse mat marked with a grid, others, like the Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer, work on nearly any surface.
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Mouse, () Heb. 'akhbar, "swift digger"), properly the dormouse, the field-mouse (1 Sam. 6:4). In Lev. 11:29, Isa. 66:17 this word is used generically, and includes the jerboa (Mus jaculus), rat, hamster (Cricetus), which, though declared to be unclean animals, were eaten by the Arabs, and are still eaten by the Bedouins. It is said that no fewer than twenty-three species of this group ('akhbar=Arab. ferah) of animals inhabit Palestine.
God "laid waste" the people of Ashdod by the terrible visitation of field-mice, which are like locusts in their destructive effects (1 Sam. 6:4, 11, 18). Herodotus, the Greek historian, accounts for the destruction of the army of Sennacherib (2 Kings 19:35) by saying that in the night thousands of mice invaded the camp and gnawed through the bow-strings, quivers, and shields, and thus left the Assyrians helpless. (See SENNACHERIB.)
Mouse (n.) An animal which strews its path with fainting women. As in Rome Christians were thrown to the lions, so centuries earlier in Otumwee, the most ancient and famous city of the world, female heretics were thrown to the mice. Jakak-Zotp, the historian, the only Otumwump whose writings have descended to us, says that these martyrs met their death with little dignity and much exertion. He even attempts to exculpate the mice (such is the malice of bigotry) by declaring that the unfortunate women perished, some from exhaustion, some of broken necks from falling over their own feet, and some from lack of restoratives. The mice, he avers, enjoyed the pleasures of the chase with composure. But if "Roman history is nine-tenths lying," we can hardly expect a smaller proportion of that rhetorical figure in the annals of a people capable of so incredible cruelty to a lovely women; for a hard heart has a false tongue.
Mouse-ear (n.) The forget-me-not (Myosotis palustris) and other species of the same genus.
Mouse-ear (n.) A European species of hawkweed (Hieracium Pilosella).
Mousefish (n.) See Frogfish.
Mousehole (n.) 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.
Mousekin (n.) A little mouse.
Mouser (n.) A cat that catches mice.
Mouser (n.) One who pries about on the lookout for something.
Mousetail (n.) A genus of ranunculaceous plants (Myosurus), in which the prolonged receptacle is covered with imbricating achenes, and so resembles the tail of a mouse.
Mousie (n.) Diminutive for Mouse.
Mousing (a.) Impertinently inquisitive; prying; meddlesome.
Mousing (n.) The act of hunting mice.
Mousing (n.) A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straighening out.
Mousing (n.) A ratchet movement in a loom.
Mousle (v. t.) To sport with roughly; to rumple.
Mousseline (n.) Muslin.
Moustache (n.) Mustache.
Mousy (a.) Infested with mice; smelling of mice.
Moutan (n.) The Chinese tree peony (Paeonia Mountan), a shrub with large flowers of various colors.
Mouths (n. pl. ) of Mouth.
Mouth (n.) The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and teeth, between the lips and the pharynx; the buccal cavity.
Mouth (n.) Hence: An opening affording entrance or exit; orifice; aperture; as:
Mouth (n.) The opening of a vessel by which it is filled or emptied, charged or discharged; as, the mouth of a jar or pitcher; the mouth of the lacteal vessels, etc.
Mouth (n.) The opening or entrance of any cavity, as a cave, pit, well, or den.
Mouth (n.) The opening of a piece of ordnance, through which it is discharged.
Mouth (n.) The opening through which the waters of a river or any stream are discharged.
Mouth (n.) The entrance into a harbor.
Mouth (n.) (Saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
Mouth (n.) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
Every coffeehouse has some particular statesman belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street where he lives. -- Addison.
Mouth (n.) Cry; voice. [Obs.] -- Dryden.
Mouth (n.) Speech; language; testimony.
That in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. -- Matt. xviii. 16.
Mouth (n.) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
Counterfeit sad looks, Make mouths upon me when I turn my back. -- Shak.
Down at the mouth or Down in the mouth, chapfallen; of dejected countenance; depressed; discouraged. [Obs. or Colloq.]
Mouth friend, One who professes friendship insincerely. -- Shak.
Mouth glass, A small mirror for inspecting the mouth or teeth.
Mouth honor, Honor given in words, but not felt. -- Shak.
Mouth organ. (Mus.) (a) Pan's pipes. See Pandean.
Mouth organ. (Mus.) (b) An harmonicon.
Mouth pipe, An organ pipe with a lip or plate to cut the escaping air and make a sound.
To stop the mouth, To silence or be silent; to put to shame; to confound.
To put one's foot in one's mouth, To say something which causes one embarrassment.
To run off at the mouth, To speak excessively.
To talk out of both sides of one's mouth, To say things which are contradictory.
The mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped. -- Ps. lxiii. 11.
Whose mouths must be stopped. -- Titus i. 11.
Mouthed (imp. & p. p.) of Mouth.
Mouthing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mouth.
Mouth (v. t.) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour. -- Dryden.
Mouth (v. t.) To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; to speak in a strained or unnaturally sonorous manner; as, mouthing platitudes. "Mouthing big phrases." -- Hare.
Mouthing out his hollow oes and aes. -- Tennyson.
Mouth (v. t.) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear her cub. -- Sir T. Browne.
Mouth (v. t.) To make mouths at. [R.] -- R. Blair.
Mouth (v. i.) To speak with a full, round, or loud, affected voice; to vociferate; to rant.
I'll bellow out for Rome, and for my country, And mouth at Caesar, till I shake the senate. -- Addison.
Mouth (v. i.) To put mouth to mouth; to kiss. [R.] -- Shak.
Mouth (v. i.) To make grimaces, esp. in ridicule or contempt.
Well I know, when I am gone, How she mouths behind my back. -- Tennyson.
Mouth (n.) The opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge; "he stuffed his mouth with candy" [syn: mouth, oral cavity, oral fissure, rima oris].
Mouth (n.) The externally visible part of the oral cavity on the face and the system of organs surrounding the opening; "she wiped lipstick from her mouth."
Mouth (n.) An opening that resembles a mouth (as of a cave or a gorge); "he rode into the mouth of the canyon"; "they built a fire at the mouth of the cave."
Mouth (n.) The point where a stream issues into a larger body of water; "New York is at the mouth of the Hudson".
Mouth (n.) A person conceived as a consumer of food; "he has four mouths to feed."
Mouth (n.) A spokesperson (as a lawyer) [syn: mouthpiece, mouth].
Mouth (n.) An impudent or insolent rejoinder; "don't give me any of your sass" [syn: sass, sassing, backtalk, back talk, lip, mouth].
Mouth (n.) The opening of a jar or bottle; "the jar had a wide mouth."
Mouth (v.) Express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize" [syn: talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise].
Mouth (v.) Articulate silently; form words with the lips only; "She mouthed a swear word."
Mouth (v.) Touch with the mouth.
Mouth (n.) In man, the gateway to the soul; in woman, the outlet of the heart.
Mouth cavity (n.) The cavity of the mouth; especially : the part of the mouth behind the gums and teeth that is bounded above by the hard and soft palates and below by the tongue and by the mucous membrane connecting it with the inner part of the mandible. [syn: Oral cavity].
Mouthed (a.) Furnished with a mouth.
Mouthed (a.) Having a mouth of a particular kind; using the mouth, speech, or voice in a particular way; -- used only in composition; as, wide-mouthed; hard-mouthed; foul-mouthed; mealy-mouthed.
Mouther (n.) One who mouths; an affected speaker.
Mouth-footed (a.) Having the basal joints of the legs converted into jaws.
Mouthfuls (n. pl. ) of Mouthful.
Mouthful (n.) As much as is usually put into the mouth at one time.
Mouthful (n.) Hence, a small quantity.
Mouthless (a.) Destitute of a mouth.
Mouth-made (a.) Spoken without sincerity; not heartfelt.
Mouthpart (n.) (pl. Mouthparts)【動】（常複數）口器 Any part of the mouth of an insect or other arthropod especially one adapted to a specific way of feeding.
Mouthpiece (n.) [C]（樂器的）吹口；（電話機的）送話口；（容器等的）口；（拳擊手的）護齒套 ；代言人；喉舌；【俚】律師 The part of a musical or other instrument to which the mouth is applied in using it; as, the mouthpiece of a bugle, or of a tobacco pipe.
Mouthpiece (n.) An appendage to an inlet or outlet opening of a pipe or vessel, to direct or facilitate the inflow or outflow of a fluid.
Mouthpiece (n.) One who delivers the opinion of others or of another; a spokesman; as, the mouthpiece of his party.
Egmont was imprudent enough to make himself the mouthpiece of their remonstrance. -- Motley.
Mouthpiece (n.) Hence: A person's lawyer. [slang]
Note: This is a term that was used sometimes in old movies. When a tough bad guy was arrested he might say "I ain't sayin' nothin' without my mouthpiece!"
Mouthpiece (n.) A part that goes over or into the mouth of a person; "the mouthpiece of a respirator."
Mouthpiece (n.) An acoustic device; the part of a telephone into which a person speaks.
Mouthpiece (n.) A spokesperson (as a lawyer) [syn: {mouthpiece}, {mouth}].
Mouthpiece (n.) (Especially boxing) equipment that protects an athlete's mouth [syn: {mouthpiece}, {gumshield}].
Mouthpiece (n.) The tube of a pipe or cigarette holder that a smoker holds in the mouth.
Mouthpiece (n.) The aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly [syn: {mouthpiece}, {embouchure}].
Movability (n.) Movableness.
Movable (a.) Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine.
Movable (a.) Changing from one time to another; as, movable feasts, i. e., church festivals, the date of which varies from year to year.
Movables (n. pl. ) of Movable.
Movable (n.) An article of wares or goods; a commodity; a piece of property not fixed, or not a part of real estate; generally, in the plural, goods; wares; furniture.
Movable (n.) Property not attached to the soil.
Movableness (n.) The quality or state of being movable; mobility; susceptibility of motion.
Movably (adv.) In a movable manner or condition.
Moved (imp. & p. p.) of Move.
Moving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Move.
Move (v. t.) 使移動，搬動；開動；使感動 [（+to）]；推動，促使 [O2] To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as, the wind moves a vessel; the horse moves a carriage.
Move (v. t.) (Chess, Checkers, etc.) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king.
Move (v. t.) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.
Minds desirous of revenge were not moved with gold. -- Knolles.
No female arts his mind could move. -- Dryden.
Move (v. t.) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion; to touch pathetically; to excite, as an emotion. -- Shak.
When he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them. -- Matt. ix. 36.
[The use of images] In orations and poetry is to move pity or terror. -- Felton.
Move (v. t.) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit, as a resolution to be adopted; as, to move to adjourn.
Let me but move one question to your daughter. -- Shak.
They are to be blamed alike who move and who decline war upon particular respects. -- Hayward.
Move (v. t.) To apply to, as for aid. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Syn: To stir; agitate; trouble; affect; persuade; influence; actuate; impel; rouse; prompt; instigate; incite; induce; incline; propose; offer.
Move (v. i.) 移動；離開；前進；（事情等）進展；遷移；搬家 [（+in/ into/ out/ away）] To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another; as, a ship moves rapidly.
The foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. -- Ps. xviii. 7.
On the green bank I sat and listened long, . . . Nor till her lay was ended could I move. -- Dryden.
Move (v. i.) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act; as, to move in a matter.
Move (v. i.) To change residence; to remove, as from one house, town, or state, to another.