mousle

English

Alternative forms

• mouzle

Verb

mousle (third-person singular simple present mousles, present participle mousling, simple past and past participle mousled)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To sport with roughly; to rumple.
   • 1675, [William] Wycherley, The Country-wife, a Comedy, […], London: Printed for Thomas Dring, […], →OCLC; republished London: Printed for T[homas] Dring, and sold by R. Bentley, and S. Magnes […], 1688, →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii, page 41:

     Why, he put the tip of his tongue between my lips, and ſo muſl'd me—and I ſaid, I'd bite it.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “mousle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• mesuol, oleums, somule