mousery
(ˈmaʊsərɪ)
[f. mouse n. + -ery.]
a. A place where mice abound; a colony of mice.
| 1888 F. A. Lucas in Auk V. 280 The occasional disturbance of this populous mousery by the visits of Owls. 1925 W. de la Mare Broomsticks 109 He never paid the smallest attention to mouse or mouse-hole or mousery. |
b. A place where mice are bred or kept.
| 1935 A. Carrol Man the Unknown vi. 207 The mice belonging to one of the strains kept in the mousery of the Rockefeller Institute died of pneumonia in the proportion of fifty-two per cent while subjected to the standard diet. 1946 All Pets Mag. Sept. 64/3, I will try and give you a picture of my mousery. I use twelve..breeding units [etc.]. 1949 Amer. Small Stock Farmer Sept. 10 Weltytown Mousery. Breeders of white mice for laboratory and research. |