Mouse

At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.

A person smeared with the excrement of a mouse was rendered impotent, according to Pliny the Elder.

In molecular biologist David Sinclair’s lab at Harvard Medical School, old mice are growing young again. […] After injecting the virus into the eye, the pluripotent genes were then switched on by feeding the mouse an antibiotic.

My mouse needs new batteries.

Move the mouse over the icon.

Let the bloat King tempt you again to bed, / Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse

Captain Higgins moused the hook with a bit of marline to prevent the block beckets from falling out under slack.

I had just moused to the File menu and the pull-down menu repeated the menu bar's hue a dozen shades lighter.

Unlike the Flamenco work, the Relation Browser allows users to quickly explore a document space using dynamic queries issued by mousing over facet elements in the interface.

[Death] mousing the flesh of men.

At Disney, on the other hand, there was only one landowner and one government; public and private were fused. […] Spawned by the Mouse's arrival, I-Drive (as it is known locally) runs parallel to I-4, lying partly in Orlando and partly[…]

They are cut off from their regular jobs to see how the Mouse operates. Eisner told the Harvard Business Review. Synergy happens at Disney because it should. Our products scream out for synergy.

[…] take eventually eked up to $33 million worldwide, but not before Walt Disney Studios declared the whole experiment a disappointment. […] But when the Mouse cut bait, MAGI was forced to close its LA office and sell off Synthavision.

This has led to the public believing that every animated film is made by the Mouse or, at least, is family-friendly entertainment. (A similar situation: Many people refer to all 3D animated films as “Pixar” films.) The cause dates back to Walt Disney's early days as an animator.