Lexicographical Neighbors of Reremice
Literary usage of Reremice
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1891)
"3), and the old English nomenclature is preserved in Titania's words, " Some war
with reremice for their leathern wings, to make my small elves coats. ..."
2. Metaphor and Simile in the Minor Elizabethan Drama by Frederic Ives Carpenter (1895)
"833 (dormice), 3486, 342b (reremice), 3635 ; Rat II 2913, 328b, I 283a (courtiers =
palace-rats ; so 113243); Cormorant I 1240. DOMESTIC ANIMALS: Cat I 3180 ..."
3. The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies by Antonio de Alcedo, George Alexander Thompson (1814)
"Here are also reremice, which, although prejudicial, since they sometimes bite
the tops of the fingers of a person asleep, have the property of eating up ..."
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