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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.

Mouse (?), v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Moused (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Mousing (?).] 1. To watch for and catch
mice.

2. To watch for or pursue anything in a sly
manner; to pry about, on the lookout for something.

Mouse, v. t. 1. To
tear, as a cat devours a mouse. [Obs.] "[Death] mousing
the flesh of men." Shak.

2. (Naut.) To furnish with a mouse; to
secure by means of a mousing. See Mouse, n.,
2.

Mouse"-ear` (?), n. (Bot.)
(a) The forget-me-not (Myosotis
palustris) and other species of the same genus.
(b) A European species of hawkweed (Hieracium
Pilosella).

Mouse-ear chickweed, a name of two common
species of chickweed (Cerastium vulgarium, and C.

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