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A house where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum; a bedlam.

One who performs massage.

A building in which vessels' masts are shaped, fitted, etc.

A house used as a place of worship; a church; -- in England, applied only to a house so used by Dissenters.

The period of natural cessation of menstruation. See Change of life, under Change.

See Amenuse. [Obs.]

To treat or use improperly; to use to a bad purpose; to misapply; as, to misuse one's talents. South. The sweet poison of misused wine. Milton.

Misuse. [Obs.]

One who misuses. "Wretched misusers of language." Coleridge.

A breech-loading machine gun consisting of a number of barrels fitted together, so arranged that the barrels can be fired simultaneously, or successively, and rapidly.

A hall for public meetings; a hall of judgment. [Obs.] "The moot-hall of Herod." Wyclif.

belonging to the genus Mus and various related genera of the family Muridæ. The common house mouse (Mus musculus) is found in nearly all countries. The American white-footed, or deer, mouse (Hesperomys leucopus) sometimes lives in houses. See Dormouse, Meadow mouse, under Meadow, and Harvest mouse, under Harvest.…

A European species of hawkweed (Hieracium Pilosella). Mouse-ear chickweed, a name of two common species of chickweed (Cerastium vulgarium, and C. viscosum). -- Mouse-ear cress, a low cruciferous herb (Sisymbrium Thaliana). All these are low herbs with soft, oval, or obovate leaves, whence the name.

See Frogfish.

A hole made by a mouse, for passage or abode, as in a wall; hence, a very small hole like that gnawed by a mouse.

A little mouse. Thackeray.

A cat that catches mice.

rolonged receptacle is covered with imbricating achenes, and so resembles the tail of a mouse.

An alehouse; a pothouse. Tickel.

An extravagant fiction embodying an account of some marvelous exploit or adventure.