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Definition of Reremouse
1. n. A rearmouse.
Definition of Reremouse
1. Noun. (heraldry) A bat (gloss flying mammal) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reremouse
1. a bat (a flying mammal) [n -MICE]
Medical Definition of Reremouse
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Reremouse
Literary usage of Reremouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"... reremouse, a bat ; see UNS or ... AH from a Teut. type reremouse. y.
The AS /¡reran, to stir, agitate, ..."
2. Display of Heraldry by William Newton (1846)
"The reremouse, or bat, which is a winged animal, though it is difficult to say
... Argent, a reremouse displayed sable, appertains to the name of Bagster, ..."
3. A Grammar of British Heraldry, Consisting of Blazon and Marshalling ; with by William Sloane Sloane-Evans (1854)
"The Bat, or reremouse, is borne by the families of BAXTER, ... used to signify
by the reremouse a Man that having small means and weak power, ..."
4. Natural History in Shakespeare's Time: Being Extracts Illustrative of the by Herbert West Seager (1896)
"All the charms Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you. TEMPEST, i.
2, 339-40. Wool of bat, and tongue of dog. MACBETH, iv. I, 15. THE reremouse [ie ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1891)
""reremouse " is said to survive to this day in some of the western counties.
The "thorny hedgehog," with his synonyms of ..."
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