Mousing

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The act of hunting mice.

2. A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straighening out.

3. A ratchet movement in a loom. Mousing hook, a hook with an attachment which prevents its unhooking.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Impertinently inquisitive; prying; meddlesome. "Mousing saints." L'Estrange.