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Definition of Mouselike
1. Adjective. Of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse. "Mouse-colored hair"
Definition of Mouselike
1. Adjective. Resembling or characteristic of a mouse (rodent); as, a mouselike squeak, mouselike timidity. ¹
2. Adverb. (postpositive) In a mouselike way ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mouselike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mouselike
Literary usage of Mouselike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Boy Scouts' Year Book by Boy Scouts of America (1920)
"If the jarring is continued, one after another the mouselike little creatures
hurriedly emerge and sail off in different directions. ..."
2. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (1895)
"The mountain-weight of material under which the ideas lay in those dusty volumes
called the classics piqued him into a dogged, mouselike subtlety of attempt ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"... appeared upon the scene in the Jurassic, diminutive, mouselike creatures even
yet retaining from reptilian ancestors the function of ovulation, ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"EDS Gloss. C. 8. Houseleek, Water. Stratiotes aloides, L.—Ger. ' Hath leaves like
those of ... Sempervivum.' Ger. 677. Mouselike. See Houseleek (1). ..."
5. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"said the very mouselike little Puritan maiden at his side, with a rising color
in her cheeks, and a dimming of the furtive sparkle of her watchful, ..."
6. The Boy Scouts' Year Book by Boy Scouts of America (1920)
"If the jarring is continued, one after another the mouselike little creatures
hurriedly emerge and sail off in different directions. ..."
7. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (1895)
"The mountain-weight of material under which the ideas lay in those dusty volumes
called the classics piqued him into a dogged, mouselike subtlety of attempt ..."
8. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"... appeared upon the scene in the Jurassic, diminutive, mouselike creatures even
yet retaining from reptilian ancestors the function of ovulation, ..."
9. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"EDS Gloss. C. 8. Houseleek, Water. Stratiotes aloides, L.—Ger. ' Hath leaves like
those of ... Sempervivum.' Ger. 677. Mouselike. See Houseleek (1). ..."
10. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"said the very mouselike little Puritan maiden at his side, with a rising color
in her cheeks, and a dimming of the furtive sparkle of her watchful, ..."
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