Definition of "wood-mouse" [wood-mouse]

• A mouse that habitually lives in the woods. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The rabbits vanished at his approach, while a tiny wood-mouse which had stolen up, fled with a squeak of panic."
• "His thoughts ran on the old legend of the field-vole who mated with a wood-mouse of high degree, and whose descendants to this day bear the marks of their noble origin."
• "He had lived in that two months, next door to the wood-mouse, and from him he may have learnt something of the art of nest-building."