Meanings
- uncountableThe entirety of mice; all mice collectively as a group.
[…] it must, I say, be obvious that such abundant supplies of favourite and wholesome food offers the greatest inducement to mousekind to associate themselves with mankind, to attend on their footsteps, and to increase and multiply under their provident but uninentional care.
1850, Rusticus, “The mice and the rats, the weasels and the stoats”, in Chambers's Journal, page 131
Origin
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