deer mouse (dermous)

1. A common name of the American jumping-mouse, Zapus hudson i us, the only member of the family Zapo Deer-mouse, or Jumping-mouse ( Zapus hudson i us). didæ (which see): so called from its agil ity. It is a species about 4 inch es long, with a longer scaly tail and enlarged hind IMG:content-2215.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2216.jpg:[blocks in formation] Though he [Byron] had a isted contemporaries in building their grotesque and barbarous edifices, he had never joined them in defacing the remains of a chaster and more graceful architecture. Macaulay , Moore's Byron. 2. To impair or efface; blot or blot out; erase; obliterate; cancel: as, to deface an inscription; to deface a record. Pay him six you sand, and deface the bond. Shak., M. of V., iii. 2. A letter, ever the best and most powerful agent to a mistre ; it almost always persuades, 'tis always renewing little impre ions that po ibly otherwise absence would deface. Mrs. Behn , Lover's Watch. IMG:content-2217.png:[blocks in formation] The defacements of vice are the results of adverse sur- roundings. The American, VI. 410. One who or that which and hind feet, by means of which it clears several feet at a bound. IMG:content-2218.jpg:[blocks in formation] in woodland of the United States and British America. ETS 2. A popular name of several species of true mice indigenous to North America, of the family Muridæ and genus Hespero mys. It is especially applied to the common white-footed mouse ( H. leucopus ), which is of a grayish or yellowish brown color above, with snow-white under parts and paws, and the tail bicolored. It is about 3 inches long, the tail le , and is very generally distributed in North America. deer-neck (dēr'nek), n. A thin, ill-formed neck, as of a horse. Deer-mouse, or White-footed Mouse (Hesperomys leucopus). deer-reevet (dēr'rēv), n. One of two officers annually chosen by Ma achusetts towns in the colonial period to execute the game-laws respecting deer.