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ˈsea-mouse
[Cf. L. mūs marīnus (Pliny), some shell-fish.]
1. A marine dorsibranchiate annelid of the family Aphroditidæ, esp. Aphrodite aculeata.
c1520L. Andrewe Noble Life iii. lvii. in Babees Bk., Mus marinus, the see mouse, gothe out of the water, &..laith her egges in..the erthe. 1580–3Greene Mamillia i. Wks. (Grosart) II. 98 The Lyon cooleth his stomacke with eating the Seamouse. 1664Hubert Catal. Rarities (1665) 16 A Sea Mouse, so called from the forme of his head and beard; this fish..but for his finnes..is something like a Serpent in colour, and is about a foot long. 1752J. Hill Hist. Anim. 90 The subcylindric variegated Aphrodita. The Sea Mouse. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. (1858) 64 The brilliant metallic plumage of the sea-mouse (Aphrodita), steeped as in the dyes of the rainbow, excited our admiration. 1863Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. III. 706 The Sea-mouse, as the creature is called from its hairy coat. 1894Hall Caine Manxman iii. vii. 141 The sea-mouse shining like fire.
2. [? For *sea-mose; cf. titmouse.] A local name for the dunlin and other small shore-birds.
1885Swainson Prov. Names Birds 194 Dunlin (Tringa alphina)... Sea mouse (Lancashire; Dumfries). Ibid. 203 Little Tern (Sterna minuta). Sparling (West Lancashire). Where the eggs and young are called ‘sea mice’. 1894Northumb. Gloss., Sea-mice, the small waders; the sanderling,..the stints,..the dotterils. |