Bible Dictionaries
Mousing

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) The act of hunting mice.

(2):

(n.) A ratchet movement in a loom.

(3):

(a.) Impertinently inquisitive; prying; meddlesome.

(4):

(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.

(5):

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mouse

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Mousing'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​m/mousing.html. 1828.