Word Meanings - MOUSER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. A cat that catches mice. 2. One who pries about on the lookout for something.
Related words: (words related to MOUSER)
- PRIESTLIKE
Priestly. B. Jonson. - PRIESTING
The office of a priest. Milton. - LOOKOUT
1. A careful looking or watching for any object or event. 2. The place from which such observation is made. 3. A person engaged in watching. 4. Object or duty of forethought and care; responsibility. - PRIESTESS
A woman who officiated in sacred rites among pagans. Abp. Potter. - PRIEST-RIDDEN
Controlled or oppressed by priests; as, a priest-ridden people. Swift. - PRIESTISM
The influence, doctrines, principles, etc., of priests or the priesthood. - SOMETHING
, adv. In some degree; somewhat; to some exrent; at some distance. Shak. I something fear my father's wrath. Shak. We have something fairer play than a reasoner could have expected formerly. Burke. My sense of touch is something coarse. Tennyson. - ABOUT
On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info) - PRIESTCAP
A form of redan, so named from its shape; -- called also swallowtail. - PRIESTLY
Of or pertaining to a priest or the priesthood; sacerdotal; befitting or becoming a priest; as, the priestly office; a priestly farewell. Shak. - PRIESTCRAFT
Priestly policy; the policy of a priesthood; esp., in an ill sense, fraud or imposition in religious concerns; management by priests to gain wealth and power by working upon the religious motives or credulity of others. It is better that men should - PRIESTHOOD
1. The office or character of a priest; the priestly function. Bk. of Com. Prayer. 2. Priests, taken collectively; the order of men set apart for sacred offices; the order of priests. - PRIESTLESS
Without a priest. Pope. - PRIEST
A presbyter elder; a minister; specifically: One who is authorized to consecrate the host and to say Mass; but especially, one of the lowest order possessing this power. Murdock. - ABOUT-SLEDGE
The largest hammer used by smiths. Weale. - PRIESTERY
Priests, collectively; the priesthood; -- so called in contempt. Milton. - PRIESTLINESS
The quality or state of being priestly. R. Browning. - ROUNDABOUTNESS
The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness. - SCATCHES
Stilts. - HIGH-PRIESTHOOD
The office, dignity, or position of a high priest. - RACEABOUT
A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit. - STIRABOUT
A dish formed of oatmeal boiled in water to a certain consistency and frequently stirred, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed together and stirred about in a pan; a hasty pudding. - MARABOUT
A Mohammedan saint; especially, one who claims to work cures supernaturally. - HAULABOUT
A bargelike vessel with steel hull, large hatchways, and coal transporters, for coaling war vessels from its own hold or from other colliers. - WHEREABOUT; WHEREABOUTS
1. About where; near what or which place; -- used interrogatively and relatively; as, whereabouts did you meet him Note: In this sense, whereabouts is the common form. 2. Concerning which; about which. "The object whereabout they are conversant." - GADABOUT
A gadder - UNPRIEST
To deprive of priesthood; to unfrock. Milton.