Word Finder - mouse

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Any small rodent of the genus Mus.

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A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling such a rodent.

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A quiet or shy person.

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(plural mice or, rarely, mouses) 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.

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Hematoma.

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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 straightening out.

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A familiar term of endearment.

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A match used in firing guns or blasting.

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A small model of (a fragment of) Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with desirable properties (depending on the context).

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A small cushion for a woman's hair.

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

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

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

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

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To navigate by means of a computer mouse.

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To tear, as a cat devours a mouse.

Look, I'll be quiet as a mouse and cause no trouble.

A mouse is in the box.

I would have been as nervous as a mouse on a cheese hunt at her age but Molly is raring to go.

When she had read the words of the second sentence, I showed her that there really was a mouse in the box.

The bait is any kind of meat, a mouse, squirrel, piece of fish or bird's head.

Here I made the cat look at the mouse, and let Helen feel the cat.

The rat and mouse family is only too numerous.

Other species include the hog deer (C. porcinus), the barking deer or muntjac (Cervulus muntjac), and the chevrotain or mouse deer (Tragulus meminna).

The common dormouse Muscardinus avellanarius, ranging from England to Russia and Asia, is of the size of a mouse and mainly chestnutcoloured.

Foxes are common, both the white and the blue occurring; mice and the brown rat have been introduced, though one variety of mouse is possibly indigenous.

Press the left mouse button near the object to be moved.

The ferret, rabbit, cat, rat, mouse and two kinds of bat have become naturalized.

His kindliness extended even to his slaves, one of whom, named Mouse, was a brother in philosophy.

That the humming-bird (Nuitziton), which was the god's old shape, should become merely his attendant (like the owl of Pallas, the mouse of Apollo, the goose of Priapus, the cuckoo of Hera), when the god received anthropomorphic form, is an example of a process common in'all mythologies.

A mouse she could handle – literally, but a snake was something different.

Nature Neuroscience, April 2003 Mouse mimics movement disorder Scientists have produced the first mouse with episodic ataxia.

The Open Mouse page, like the entirely separate printed broadsheet Poetry Scotland, will contain only poems - no editorial content.

These files can be downloaded and viewed in the UCSC genome browser (Mouse March 2005 ).

Of the animal models assessed there was evidence that p53 +/- transgenic mouse model could identify some genotoxic carcinogens.

And wielding the right-hand bit around as a mouse just seems plain clumsy.

Today, we are reviewing their latest low profile keyboard and optical mouse combo.

The jewel boxes can be moved using the arrows on the keyboard keys or with on-screen arrows to develop mouse dexterity.

Pointing Devices The standard mouse is quite a challenging device for many people with reduced dexterity.

The control points on the cooling passage may be edited through the pop-up dialog or dragging the points using left mouse button.

Providing students with the ability to design and create working programs, with graphical displays, using the keyboard and mouse for input.

He won't have a cotton dolly, Mickey Mouse won't come to his house.

Drag the mouse toward the top or bottom to rise or sink, drag the mouse toward the top or bottom to rise or sink, drag toward the left or right to turn.

The mdx mouse is supposed to represent muscular dystrophy, but the muscles regenerate with no treatment.

The rats will be humanely killed to supply serum, which is essential for the in vitro culture of mouse embryo tissues.

Specialist techniques such as ES cell gene targeting and experimental mouse embryology are routinely practiced.

Also, is there any was to do mouse emulation without a mouse?

They identified a mouse whose immune system did not react to a substance called endotoxin, a component of bacterial cell walls.

We are using a variety of different approaches to identify new markers of stem cells in human and mouse epidermis.

The picture on the cover shows a scanning electron micrograph of sensory neurons from the olfactory epithelium of an adult mouse.

The cat can have some milk, and the mouse can have some cake.

The correlation coefficient between adjacent pairs of axes can be viewed by clicking an axis with the right mouse button.

Don't be bad little cotton dolly, See how nice Mickey Mouse sleeps now?

By combining ergonomics and cutting edge design Perific is a wireless optical mouse that you easily can adapt to your workplace.

It also appears that there is a highly similar mouse homologue to that gene, however containing a few extra exons.

Methods These experiments were performed on tissue explants or brain slices prepared from mouse embryos and pups from development stages E15 through P20.

This approach should lead to a more complete description of the dynamics of cell fate in the mouse.

A Mountain of Conferences... As I put forefinger to mouse for this report I appreciate I have to be brief.

Use a mouse mat to reduce friction on the desk top.

In the latest research, scientists inserted a gene for a single protein produced by BDV into mouse embryos.

Tibby [Elizabeth] Russell, a great mouse geneticist who recently died, was one.

The next innovation in mouse genetics came with the development of knockout mice - mice lacking a specific gene - in the late 1980s.

The mouse pointer should change from a magnifying glass to a normal pointer and should let you do some quick editing before printing.

Then, with the left-hand button depressed, drag the mouse to redraw the graph.

Finding themed coloring pages is as easy as a few clicks of the mouse.

Mouse Watches - This stores sells a range of Disney watches including Mickey Mouse watches.