mouse

A rodent, typically having a small body, dark fur, and a long tail.

Any small rodent of the genus Mus.

At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.

A person smeared with the excrement of a mouse was rendered impotent, according to Pliny the Elder.

A quiet or shy person.

An input device that is moved over a pad or other flat surface to produce a corresponding movement of a pointer on a graphical display.

My mouse needs new batteries.

A pointer.

Move the mouse over the icon.

To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around).

To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats.

To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire.

Captain Higgins moused the hook with a bit of marline to prevent the block beckets from falling out under slack.

To navigate by means of a computer mouse.

I had just moused to the File menu and the pull-down menu repeated the menu bar's hue a dozen shades lighter.

Unlike the Flamenco work, the Relation Browser allows users to quickly explore a document space using dynamic queries issued by mousing over facet elements in the interface.

To tear, as a cat devours a mouse.

[Death] mousing the flesh of men.

The Walt Disney Company.

At Disney, on the other hand, there was only one landowner and one government; public and private were fused. […] Spawned by the Mouse's arrival, I-Drive (as it is known locally) runs parallel to I-4, lying partly in Orlando and partly[…]

They are cut off from their regular jobs to see how the Mouse operates. Eisner told the Harvard Business Review. Synergy happens at Disney because it should. Our products scream out for synergy.

A surname from German.