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单词 rearmouse
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rearmousen.

Brit. /ˈrɪəmaʊs/, U.S. /ˈrɪ(ə)rˌmaʊs/, Welsh English /ˈriəmaus/
Inflections: Plural rearmice, (nonstandard) rearmouses.
Forms:

α. early Old English hryremus (Kentish), Old English hreremus, early Middle English heremus (transmission error), Middle English jeremyse (plural, transmission error), Middle English reremees (plural), Middle English reremijse (plural), Middle English reremous, Middle English reremowse, Middle English reremues (plural), Middle English reremys (plural), 1500s reermeece (plural), 1500s–1600s reremise (plural), 1500s– reremouse, 1600s reeremouse, 1600s reermous, 1600s (1800s– English regional (Gloucestershire)) reermouse; N.E.D. (1904) also records a form Middle English reremows.

β. Middle English reemys (plural), Middle English remous, 1500s remouse, 1600s remise (plural); English regional (south-western) 1700s– ryemouse, 1800s rymouse, 1800s– raamouse, 1800s– rawmouse, 1800s– raymouse.

γ. 1500s rearemyce (plural), 1500s–1600s rearemouse, 1600s– rearmouse, 1800s– raremouse (English regional (south-western)).

Origin: Apparently formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: an element of uncertain origin, mouse n.
Etymology: Apparently < a first element of uncertain origin (see below) + mouse n., perhaps as alteration of Old English hrēaðemūs (see below).The first element may represent the stem of Old English hrēran to move, to shake, to agitate (see rore v., but the length of the vowel is not certain. Compare later flickermouse n., flinder-mouse n., flittermouse n. (and the Germanic parallels cited at that entry), and rattle-mouse n. 1. Compare Old English hrēaðemūs bat ( < a first element of uncertain origin (perhaps ultimately < an Indo-European base with the underlying sense ‘to shake, to move quickly’) + mouse n.):eOE Épinal Gloss. (1974) 58 Uespertilio, hreadaemus.OE tr. Alexander's Let. to Aristotle (1995) §19. 236 Þær eac cwoman hreaþemys þa wæron in culefrena gelicnesse swa micle, & þa on ure ondwlitan sperdon & us pulledon. The Old English (Kentish) form hryremus apparently shows inverse spelling of y for e (association with Old English hryre rure n. is unlikely for phonological and semantic reasons).
Now rare (archaic and English regional (south-western and midlands) and Welsh English in later use, or with reference to earlier texts).
1. A bat.In quot. eOE at α. erroneously glossing Latin stellio (also stelio) ‘kind of lizard’, apparently by confusion with vespertilio ‘bat’.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Chiroptera or bat > [noun]
rearmouseeOE
bata1300
callow-mouse1340
flinder-mouse1481
flittermouse1547
rattle-mouse1589
flickermouse1631
vespertilio1665
aliped1829
Cheiroptera1835
cheiropteran1835
rat-bat1851
rhinolophid1903
α.
eOE (Kentish) Glosses to Proverbs of Solomon (Vesp. D.vi) in U. Kalbhen Kentische Glossen (2003) 157 Stelio : hryremus.
OE Ælfric Gloss. (St. John's Oxf.) 307 Uespertilio, hreremus.
c1200 ( Latin-Old Eng. Gloss. (Bodl. 730) in Eng. Stud. (1981) 62 204/1 Vespertilio, heremus.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. xi. 19 Þees..been to be shoned of ȝow: an Egle & agriffyn..alapewynke, areremous.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Baruch vi. 21 Aboue the hed of hem, backis, or reremijse, and swalewis fleeȝen.
a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 69 Vespertilio, a reremous.
c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) iii. 272 (MED) Alle þe myssedoers..To put hem in preson..And [not] to rewle as reremys and rest on þe daies.
a1500 in T. Wright Vocabularies (1857) 164 (MED) Among alle the fowles that maden gle, The reremowse and the owle cowde I not see.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Backe or Reremouse which flieth in the darke, nicteris.
1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis iv. f. 7 Wee in Englishe language Backes or Reermeece call the same.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 212 Reer-mice, or Bats so large as Goshawkes.
1686 J. Dunton Lett. from New Eng. (1867) 24 One of the Seamen affirm'd that he had seen Flying Fishes, and that they had wings like a Rere-Mouse.
1717 S. Kent Dict. Arms 106 Baxter..; Argent, a Reremouse displaid sable.
1792 R. Heron Elegant Extracts Nat. Hist. I. 418 (heading) The Bat, or Rere-Mouse.
1863 J. R. Wise New Forest 192 The bat is here called rere-mouse.
1885 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. I. Foreward p. viii The rere-mouse flitted overhead with his tiny shriek.
1946 E. A. Armstrong Shakespeare's Imagination ii. 23 The mouse creeps in by virtue of its confusion with the rere-mouse, for the bat in folklore is the symbol of the black-hooded figure who has the last word in the drama of life.
a1955 H. M. Tucker My Gower (1957) 129 Bats, moles, worms and horse-flies we knew as reremouses, wants, angletouches and brims, respectively.
1971 J. R. Bernasconi Collectors' Gloss. 412 Reremouse, an heraldic term for a bat (mammal).
β. a1333 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (BL Add.) (1929) 710 (MED) Remous [v.rr. ratmose, bakke; glossing Fr. chaufsorriz].a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 151v The Remous hatte vespertyleo..he fleeþ and hateþ light..reemys fleeþ riȝt liȝt for þey beeþ blynde as woontes.1595 T. Johnson Cornucopiæ sig. A4 The dog, the rauen, the cocke, the nightinggale, the bat or remouse & such like, especiallye the head the hart & the eyes are said to profit in vigilancy, or to keepe one from sleeping.1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 544 Their lights are oftentimes put out with the..swarmes of reremise flying about their eares.1790 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) Rye-Mouse, a bat.1851 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. 131 Rawmouse, Raamouse, the reremouse or bat... Rye-mouse..N.W.1979 N. Rogers Wessex Dial. 85/1 Rear-Mouse, a bat (mammal). Also found as..Rye-Mouse.γ. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Glis, a dormouse: a rearemouse, or batte.1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 504 We shall wander and straggle blindely..as wantes and rearemyce at the bright beames of the cleare Sunne.1616 R. Anton Philosophers Satyrs sig. C2v Rearemice flie By daylight with the Eagles maiestie.1671 J. Dryden Evening's Love v. 80 Some flying, and some sticking upon the walls like Rear-mice.1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iv. 129 These Brutes, whose language resembled the screeching of Bats, or Rear-Mice.1755 J. G. Cooper Tomb Shakespear 7 Journeying to meet fierce Oberon her lord, returning victor from a rear mouse war.1835 R. Browning Paracelsus iii. 91 Do the rear-mice still Hang like a fret-work on the gate?1872 ‘Agrikler’ Rhymes 43 A raremouse... Gied I wi hes weng a smack in the fiace.1892 Ld. Lytton King Poppy Epil. 163 The rear-mice flit In the hard furrow.1990 Naturalist 115 41 Named a flittermouse or rear mouse, he places it in Rerum Naturalium Britanicum Conteneus under Aves Britannica, the bird section.
2. A flying fish (cf. sea-bat n. 1). More fully rearmouse of the sea. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Atheriniformes > [noun] > member of family Exocoetidae (flying fish)
flying fish?c1510
rearmouse1598
sea-swallow1598
sea-kite1601
swallow-fish1601
sea-bat1611
swallow1668
sea-hawka1717
wing-fish1855
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes at Pesce rondine A sea swallow, or a sea night bat, or reare-mouse.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Rondole, the sea Bat, or Rearemouse of the sea; a flying fish.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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