† flickermousen.
Obsolete.
A bat.
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1631 B. Jonson New Inne iii. i. 211 Come, I will see the flicker mouse.
1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) V. 234 The Flickermise flying through the Translucidity of the corner'd Gate.
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