reremouse
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun A bat.
Examples
-
Presently, sweetened by distance, would be heard the wild weird song of lads and lasses, driving or rather pelting, through the gloaming their sheep and goats; and the measured chant of the spearsmen gravely stalking behind their charge, the camels; mingled with bleating of the flocks and the bellowing of the humpy herds; while the reremouse flitted overhead with his tiny shriek, and the rave of the jackal resounded through deepening glooms, and — most musical of music — the palm trees answered the whispers of the night breeze with the softest tones of falling water.
Note
The word 'reremouse' comes from Middle English reremous, from Old English hrēremūs, hrērmūs (bat), equivalent to rear (“to move, shake, stir”) + mouse.
