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Muscled (mŭsl'd), a. Furnished with muscles; having muscles; as, things well muscled.
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muscleman n. a bully employed by a gangster.
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Muscle reading. The art of making discriminations between objects of choice, of discovering the whereabouts of hidden objects, etc., by inference from the involuntary movements of one whose hand the reader holds or with whom he is otherwise in muscular contact.
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Muscling (?), n. (Fine Arts) Exhibition or representation of the muscles. [R.]
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A good piece, the painters say, must have good muscling, as well as coloring and drapery. Shaftesbury.
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Muscogees (?), n. pl. See .
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Muscoid (?), a. [Muscus + -oid: cf. F. muscoide.] (Bot.) Mosslike; resembling moss.
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Muscoid, n. (Bot.) A term formerly applied to any mosslike flowerless plant, with a distinct stem, and often with leaves, but without any vascular system.
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Muscoidea prop. n. A superfamily of two-winged flies esp. the families: Muscidae; Gasterophilidae; Calliphoridae; and Tachinidae.
Syn. -- superfamily Muscoidea.
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Muscology (?), n. [Muscus + -logy.] Bryology.
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Muscosity (?), n. [L. muscosus mossy, fr. muscus moss.] Mossiness. Jonhson.
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Muscovado (?), a. [Corrupted fr. Sp. mascabado; cf. Pg. mascavado, F. moscouade, n., formerly also mascovade, It. mascavato.] Pertaining to, or of the nature of, unrefined or raw sugar, obtained from the juice of the sugar cane by evaporating and draining off the molasses. Muscovado sugar contains impurities which render it dark colored and moist.
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Muscovado, n. Unrefined or raw sugar.
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Muscovite (?), n. [See .] 1. A native or inhabitant of Muscovy or ancient Russia; hence, a Russian.
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2. An inhabitant of Moscow.
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3. (Min.) Common potash mica, essentially KAl3Si3O10(OH)2. It is used as an electrical insulator. See .
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Muscovy duck (?). [A corruption of musk duck.] (Zoöl.) A duck (Cairina moschata), larger than the common duck, often raised in poultry yards. Called also musk duck. It is native of tropical America, from Mexico to Southern Brazil.
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Muscovy glass (?). [From Muscovy, the old name of Russia: cf. F. verre de Moscovie.] Mica; muscovite. See .
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Muscular (?), a. [Cf. F. musculaire. See .] 1. Of or pertaining to a muscle, or to a system of muscles; consisting of, or constituting, a muscle or muscles; as, muscular fiber.
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Great muscular strength, accompanied by much awkwardness. Macaulay.
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2. Performed by, or dependent on, a muscle or the muscles. “The muscular motion.” Arbuthnot.
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3. Well furnished with muscles; having well-developed muscles; brawny; hence, strong; powerful; vigorous; as, a muscular body or arm.
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Coloq. Muscular Christian , one who believes in a part of religious duty to maintain a healthful and vigorous physical state. T. Hughes. -- Coloq. Muscular Christianity . (a) The practice and opinion of those Christians who believe that it is a part of religious duty to maintain a vigorous condition of the body, and who therefore approve of athletic sports and exercises as conductive to good health, good morals, and right feelings in religious matters. T. Hughes. (b) An active, robust, and cheerful Christian life, as opposed to a meditative and gloomy one. C. Kingsley. -- Coloq. Muscular excitability (Physiol.), that property in virtue of which a muscle shortens, when it is stimulated; irritability; contractility. -- Coloq. Muscular sense (Physiol.), muscular sensibility; the sense by which we obtain knowledge of the condition of our muscles and to what extent they are contracted, also of the position of the various parts of our bodies and the resistance offering by external objects.
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Muscularity (?), n. The state or quality of being muscular. Grew.
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Muscularize (?), v. t. To make muscular. Lowell.
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Muscularly, adv. In a muscular manner.
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Musculation (?), n. (Anat.) Musculature.
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Musculature (?), n. [Cf. F. musculature.] (Anat.) The muscular system of an animal, or of any of its parts; musculation.
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Muscule (?), n. [L. musculus: cf. F. muscule.] (Mil.) A long movable shed used by besiegers in ancient times in attacking the walls of a fortified town.
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Musculin (?), n. [L. musculus a muscle.] (Physiol. Chem.) See .
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Musculocutaneous (?), a. [L. musculus + E. cutaneous.] (Anat.) Pertaining both to muscles and skin; as, the musculocutaneous nerve.
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Musculophrenic (?), a. [L. musculus muscle + E. phrenic.] (Anat.) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm; as, the musculophrenic artery.
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Musculosity (?), n. The quality or state of being musculous; muscularity. [Obs.]
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Musculospiral (?), a. [L. musculus muscle + E. spiral.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the muscles, and taking a spiral course; -- applied esp. to a large nerve of the arm.
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Musculous (?), a. [L. musculosus: cf. F. musculeux.] Muscular. [Obs.] Jonhson.
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Muse (?), n. [From F. musse. See .] A gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.
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Find a hare without a muse. Old Prov.
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Muse, n. [F. Muse, L. Musa, Gr. �. Cf. , n., .] 1. (Class. Myth.) One of the nine goddesses, daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, who presided over song and the different kinds of poetry, and also the arts and sciences; -- often used in the plural. At one time certain other goddesses were considered as muses.
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Granville commands; your aid, O Muses, bring:
What Muse for Granville can refuse to sing? Pope.
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☞ The names of the Muses and the arts they presided over were: Calliope (Epic poetry), Clio (History), Erato (Lyric poetry), Euterpe (music), Melpomene (Tragedy), Polymnia or Polyhymnia (religious music), Terpsichore (dance), Thalia (comedy), and Urania (astronomy).
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2. A particular power and practice of poetry; the inspirational genius of a poet. Shak.
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3. A poet; a bard. [R.] Milton.
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Muse, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Mused (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Musing.] [F. muser to loiter or trifle, orig., to stand with open mouth, fr. LL. musus, morsus, muzzle, snout, fr. L. morsus a biting, bite, fr. mordere to bite. See , and cf. , , n.] 1. To think closely; to study in silence; to meditate. “Thereon mused he.” Chaucer.
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He mused upon some dangerous plot. Sir P. Sidney.
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2. To be absent in mind; to be so occupied in study or contemplation as not to observe passing scenes or things present; to be in a brown study. Daniel.
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3. To wonder. [Obs.] Spenser. B. Jonson.
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Syn. -- To consider; meditate; ruminate. See .
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Muse, v. t. 1. To think on; to meditate on.
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Come, then, expressive Silence, muse his praise. Thomson.
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2. To wonder at. [Obs.] Shak.
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Muse, n. 1. Contemplation which abstracts the mind from passing scenes; absorbing thought; hence, absence of mind; a brown study. Milton.
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2. Wonder, or admiration. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Museful (?), a. Meditative; thoughtfully silent. “Museful mopings.” Dryden. -- Musefully, adv.
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Museless, a. Unregardful of the Muses; disregarding the power of poetry; unpoetical. Milton.
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Muser (?), n. One who muses.
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Muset (?), n. [OF. mussette, dim. of musse, muce, a hiding place, fr. F. musser, OF. mucier, muchier, to conceal, hide. Cf. .] A small hole or gap through which a wild animal passes; a muse. Shak.
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Musette (?), n. [F., dim. of OF. muse.] 1. A small bagpipe formerly in use, having a soft and sweet tone.
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2. An air adapted to this instrument; also, a kind of rustic dance.
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Museum (?), n. [L., a temple of the Muses, hence, a place of study, fr. Gr. �, fr. � a Muse.] A repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art.
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Coloq. Museum beetle , Coloq. Museum pest . (Zoöl.) See .
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Mush (?), n. [Cf. Gael. mus, muss, pap, porridge, any thick preparation of fruit, OHG. muos; akin to AS. & OS. mōs food, and prob, to E. meat. See .] Meal (esp. Indian meal) boiled in water; hasty pudding; supawn. [U.S.]
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Mush, v. t. [Cf. F. moucheter to cut with small cuts.] To notch, cut, or indent, as cloth, with a stamp.
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Mush (?), n. [Perh. short for mush on, a corrupt of E. marchons, the cry of the voyageurs and coureurs de bois to their dogs.] A march on foot, esp. across the snow with dogs; as, he had a long mush before him; -- also used attributively. [Colloq., Alaska & Northwestern U. S.]
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Mush, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Mushed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Mushing.] To travel on foot, esp. across the snow with dogs. -- v. t. To cause to travel or journey. [Rare] [Colloq., Alaska & Northwestern U. S.]
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Mushroom (?), n. [OE. muscheron, OF. mouscheron, F. mousseron; perhaps fr. mousse moss, of German origin. See .] 1. (Bot.) (a) An edible fungus (Agaricus campestris), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus. This is whitish and silky or somewhat scaly above, and bears on the under side radiating gills which are at first flesh-colored, but gradually become brown. The plant grows in rich pastures and is proverbial for rapidity of growth and shortness of duration. It has a pleasant smell, and is largely used as food. It is also cultivated from spawn. (b) Any large fungus developing a visible fruiting body with a stem and cap, usu. of the basidiomycetes; especially one of the genus Agaricus; a toadstool. Several species are edible; but many are very poisonous. The term mushroom is used most often for edible varieties, the poisonous ones being termed toadstools or other names. But this distinction is often ignored.
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2. One who rises suddenly from a low condition in life; an upstart. Bacon.
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Mushroom, a. 1. Of or pertaining to mushrooms; as, mushroom catchup.
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2. Resembling mushrooms in rapidity of growth and shortness of duration; short-lived; ephemerial; as, mushroom cities.
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Coloq. Mushroom anchor , an anchor shaped like a mushroom, capable of grasping the ground in whatever way it falls. -- Coloq. Mushroom coral (Zoöl.), any coral of the genus Fungia. See . -- Coloq. Mushroom spawn (Bot.), the mycelium, or primary filamentous growth, of the mushroom; also, cakes of earth and manure containing this growth, which are used for propagation of the mushroom. -- Coloq. mushroom cloud , a cloud of smoke rising and then spreading laterally to take on the shape of a mushroom -- caused by large fires or explosions, esp. nuclear explosions.
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mushroom (?), v. i. 1. to grow or expand rapidly.
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2. to grow so much and so rapidly as to change qualitatively; used with into; as, a minor border skirmish mushroomed into a full-blown war.
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Mushroom-headed (?), a. (Bot.) Having a cylindrical body with a convex head of larger diameter; having a head like that of a mushroom.
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Mushy (?), a. Soft like mush; figuratively, good-naturedly weak and effusive; weakly sentimental.
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She 's not mushy, but her heart is tender. G. Eliot.
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Music (?), n. [F. musique, fr. L. musica, Gr. � (sc. �), any art over which the Muses presided, especially music, lyric poetry set and sung to music, fr. � belonging to Muses or fine arts, fr. � Muse.] 1. The science and the art of tones, or musical sounds, i. e., sounds of higher or lower pitch, begotten of uniform and synchronous vibrations, as of a string at various degrees of tension; the science of harmonical tones which treats of the principles of harmony, or the properties, dependences, and relations of tones to each other; the art of combining tones in a manner to please the ear.
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☞ Not all sounds are tones. Sounds may be unmusical and yet please the ear. Music deals with tones, and with no other sounds. See .
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2. (a) Melody; a rhythmical and otherwise agreeable succession of tones. (b) Harmony; an accordant combination of simultaneous tones.
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3. The written and printed notation of a musical composition; the score.
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4. Love of music; capacity of enjoying music.
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The man that hath no music in himself
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. Shak.
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5. (Zoöl.) A more or less musical sound made by many of the lower animals. See .
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Coloq. Magic music , a game in which a person is guided in finding a hidden article, or in doing a specific art required, by music which is made more loud or rapid as he approaches success, and slower as he recedes. Tennyson. -- Coloq. Music box . See Musical box, under . -- Coloq. Music hall , a place for public musical entertainments. -- Coloq. Music loft , a gallery for musicians, as in a dancing room or a church. -- Coloq. Music of the spheres , the harmony supposed to be produced by the accordant movement of the celestial spheres. -- Coloq. Music paper , paper ruled with the musical staff, for the use of composers and copyists. -- Coloq. Music pen , a pen for ruling at one time the five lines of the musical staff. -- Coloq. Music shell (Zoöl.), a handsomely colored marine gastropod shell (Voluta musica) found in the East Indies; -- so called because the color markings often resemble printed music. Sometimes applied to other shells similarly marked. -- Coloq. To face the music , to meet any disagreeable necessity, such as a reprimand for an error or misdeed, without flinching. [Colloq. or Slang]
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Musical (?), a. [Cf. F. musical.] Of or pertaining to music; having the qualities of music; or the power of producing music; devoted to music; melodious; harmonious; as, musical proportion; a musical voice; musical instruments; a musical sentence; musical persons.
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Coloq. Musical box , or Coloq. Music box , a box or case containing apparatus moved by clockwork so as to play certain tunes automatically. The apparatus may be driven by a wind-up spring mechanism or by batteries. -- Coloq. Musical fish (Zoöl.), any fish which utters sounds under water, as the drumfish, grunt, gizzard shad, etc. -- Coloq. Musical glasses , glass goblets or bowls so tuned and arranged that when struck, or rubbed, they produce musical notes. Cf. , 1.
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Musical, n. 1. Music. [Obs.]
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To fetch home May with their musical. Spenser.
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2. A social entertainment of which music is the leading feature; a musical party. [Colloq.]
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3. A drama in which music and song are prominent features; a musical drama or musical play; as, Oklahoma! was a breakthrough in the form and popularity of the musical.
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Musicale (?), n. [F. Cf. Soirée musicale.] A social musical party. [Colloq.]
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Musically (?), adv. In a musical manner.
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Musicalness, n. The quality of being musical.
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Music drama. An opera in which the text and action are not interrupted by set arias, duets, etc., the music being determined throughout by dramatic appropriateness; musical drama of this character, in general. It involves the use of a kind of melodious declamation, the development of leitmotif, great orchestral elaboration, and a fusion of poetry, music, action, and scene into an organic whole. The term is applied esp. to the later works of Wagner: “Tristan und Isolde,” “Die Meistersinger,” “Rheingold,” “Walküre,” “Siegfried,” “Götterdämmerung,” and “Parsifal.”
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Music hall. A place for public musical entertainments; specif. (Eng.), esp. a public hall for vaudeville performances, in which smoking and drinking are usually allowed in the auditorium.
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Musician (?), n. [F. musicien.] One skilled in the art or science of music; esp., a skilled singer, or performer on a musical instrument.
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Musicomania (?), n. [Music + mania: cf. F. musicomanie.] (Med.) A kind of monomania in which the passion for music becomes so strong as to derange the intellectual faculties. Dunglison.
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Musimon (?), n. [See .] (Zoöl.) See .
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musing adj. Thinking long and intensely.
Syn. -- brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative.
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Musingly (?), adv. In a musing manner.
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Musit (?), n. See .
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Musk (mŭsk), n. [F. musc, L. muscus, Per. musk, fr. Skr. mushka testicle, orig., a little mouse. See , and cd. , , , .] 1. A substance of a reddish brown color, and when fresh of the consistency of honey, obtained from a bag being behind the navel of the male musk deer. It has a slightly bitter taste, but is specially remarkable for its powerful and enduring odor. It is used in medicine as a stimulant antispasmodic. The term is also applied to secretions of various other animals, having a similar odor.
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2. (Zoöl.) The musk deer. See Musk deer (below).
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3. The perfume emitted by musk, or any perfume somewhat similar.
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4. (Bot.) (a) The musk plant (Mimulus moschatus). (b) A plant of the genus Erodium (Erodium moschatum); -- called also musky heron's-bill. (c) A plant of the genus Muscari; grape hyacinth.
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Coloq. Musk beaver (Zoöl.), muskrat (1). -- Coloq. Musk beetle (Zoöl.), a European longicorn beetle (Aromia moschata), having an agreeable odor resembling that of attar of roses. -- Coloq. Musk cat . See . -- Coloq. Musk cattle (Zoöl.), musk oxen. See Musk ox (below). -- Coloq. Musk deer (Zoöl.), a small hornless deer (Moschus moschiferus), which inhabits the elevated parts of Central Asia. The upper canine teeth of the male are developed into sharp tusks, curved downward. The male has scent bags on the belly, from which the musk of commerce is derived. The deer is yellow or red-brown above, whitish below. The pygmy musk deer are chevrotains, as the kanchil and napu. -- Coloq. Musk duck . (Zoöl.) (a) The Muscovy duck. (b) An Australian duck (Biziura lobata). -- Coloq. Musk lorikeet (Zoöl.), the Pacific lorikeet (Glossopsitta australis) of Australia. -- Coloq. Musk mallow (Bot.), a name of two malvaceous plants: (a) A species of mallow (Malva moschata), the foliage of which has a faint musky smell. (b) An Asiatic shrub. See . -- Coloq. Musk orchis (Bot.), a European plant of the Orchis family (Herminium Minorchis); -- so called from its peculiar scent. -- Coloq. Musk ox (Zoöl.), an Arctic hollow-horned ruminant (Ovibos moschatus), now existing only in America, but found fossil in Europe and Asia. It is covered with a thick coat of fine yellowish wool, and with long dark hair, which is abundant and shaggy on the neck and shoulders. The full-grown male weighs over four hundred pounds. -- Coloq. Musk parakeet . (Zoöl.) Same as Musk lorikeet (above). -- Coloq. Musk pear (Bot.), a fragrant kind of pear much resembling the Seckel pear. -- Coloq. Musk plant (Bot.), the Mimulus moschatus, a plant found in Western North America, often cultivated, and having a strong musky odor. -- Coloq. Musk root (Bot.), the name of several roots with a strong odor, as that of the nard (Nardostachys Jatamansi) and of a species of Angelica. -- Coloq. Musk rose (Bot.), a species of rose (Rosa moschata), having peculiarly fragrant white blossoms. -- Coloq. Musk seed (Bot.), the seed of a plant of the Mallow family (Hibiscus moschatus), used in perfumery and in flavoring. See . -- Coloq. Musk sheep (Zoöl.), the musk ox. -- Coloq. Musk shrew (Zoöl.), a shrew (Sorex murinus), found in India. It has a powerful odor of musk. Called also sondeli, and mondjourou. -- Coloq. Musk thistle (Bot.), a species of thistle (Carduus nutans), having fine large flowers, and leaves smelling strongly of musk. -- Coloq. Musk tortoise , Coloq. Musk turtle (Zoöl.), a small American fresh-water tortoise (Armochelys odorata syn. Ozotheca odorata), which has a distinct odor of musk; -- called also stinkpot.
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