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musked, a. Now rare or arch.|mʌskt|
Also 7 musket.
[f. musk n. + -ed2.]
Flavoured, or perfumed with musk; tasting like musk.
Often in names of plants and fruits (sometimes translating mod.L. moschātus).
1576Baker Jewell of Health 227 b, Add..of sublimed wyne vj pyntes, of Rose-water Musked one pynt and a halfe. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. cccxliv. 795 Musked Cranes bill hath many weake and feeble branches trailing vpon the grounde. Ibid. 796 It is called..Geranium moscatum: in English Musked Storkes bill, and Cranes bill. 1614Drummond of Hawthornden Sonn. ‘Alexis here she stay'd’, Shee set her by these musket Eglantines. 1694Salmon Bate's Dispens. (1713) 591/2 The musked Julep against Fits of the Mother. 1706London & Wise Retir'd Gard. I. i. xi. 51 Abricots of the best Sort, whereof two must be musked. 1731Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Geranium §16 Musked Crane's-bill or Moscovy. 1753Armstrong Taste 96 But hear their Raptures o'er some specious Rhime Dub'd by the musk'd and greasy Mob sublime. 1802W. Forsyth Fruit Trees vii. (1824) 179 Its colour red and yellow, its flesh tender and musked. 1852R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour lxvi. (1893) 349 A musked cambric handkerchief. |
