Mu"sic*al, n. 1. Music. [Obs.]

To fetch home May with their musical.

Spenser.

2. A social entertainment of which music is the leading feature; a

musical party. [Colloq.]

||Mu`si`cale" (?), n. [F. Cf. Soirée musicale.] A social musical party.

||[Colloq.]

Mu"sic*al*ly (?), adv. In a musical manner.

Mu"sic*al*ness, n. The quality of being musical.

Mu*si"cian (?), n. [F. musicien.] One skilled in the art or science of

music; esp., a skilled singer, or performer on a musical instrument.

Mu`si*co*ma"ni*a (?), 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.

Mus"i*mon (?), n. [See Musmon.] (Zoöl.) See Mouflon.

Mus"ing*ly (?), adv. In a musing manner.

Mu"sit (?), n. See Muset.

Musk (?), n. [F. musc, L. muscus, Per. musk, fr. Skr. mushka testicle,

orig., a little mouse. See Mouse, and cd. Abelmosk, Muscadel, Muscovy

duck, Nutmeg.] 1. A substance of a reddish brown color, and when fresh

of the consistence 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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