Webster's Dictionary 1913

5941

Music hall

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 a...

5942

Musical

Mu″sic‐al (?), 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, music...

5943

Musical (2)

Mu″sic‐al, n. 1. Music.To fetch home May with their musical. Spenser.2. A social entertainment of which music is the leading feature; a musical party.

5944

Musicale

‖Mu′si′cale″ (?), n. [F. Cf. Soirée musicale.] A social musical party.

5945

Musically

Mu″sic‐al‐ly (?), adv. In a musical manner.

5946

Musicalness

Mu″sic‐al‐ness, n. The quality of being musical.

5947

Musician

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.

5948

Musicomania

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 facultie...

5949

Musimon

Mus″i‐mon (?), n. [See Musmon.] (Zoöl.) See Mouflon.

5950

Musingly

Mus″ing‐ly (?), adv. In a musing manner.

5951

Musit

Mu″sit (?), n. See Muset.

5952

Musk

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 r...

5953

Musk (2)

Musk (mŭsk), v. t. To perfume with musk.

5954

Muskadel

Mus″ka‐del′ (mŭs″kȧ‐dĕl′), n. See Muscadel.

5955

Muskat

Mus″kat (mŭs″kăt), n. See Muscat.

5956

Muskellunge

Mus″kel‐lunge (?), n.(Zoöl.) A large American pike (Esox nobilior) found in the Great Lakes, and other Northern lakes, and in the St. Lawrence River. It is valued as a food fish...

5957

Musket

Mus″ket (?), n. [F. mousquet, It. moschetto, formerly, a kind of hawk; cf. OF. mousket, moschet, a kind of hawk falcon, F. mouchet, prop., a little fly (the hawk prob. being nam...

5958

Musketeer

Mus′ket‐eer″ (?), n. [F. mousquetaire; cf. It. moschettiere.] A soldier armed with a musket.

5959

Musketo

Mus‐ke″to (?), n. See Mosquito.

5960

Musketoon

Mus′ket‐oon″ (?), n. [F. mousqueton; cf. It. moschettone.] 1. A short musket.2. One who is armed with such a musket.

5961

Musketry

Mus″ket‐ry (?), n. [F. mousqueterie; cf. It. moschetteria.] 1. Muskets, collectively.2. The fire of muskets. Motley.

5962

Muskiness

Musk″i‐ness (?), n. The quality or state of being musky; the scent of musk.

5963

Muskmelon

Musk″mel′on (?), n. [Musk + melon.] (Bot.) The fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (Cucumis Melo), having a peculiar aromatic flavor, and cultivated in many varieties, the principal...

5964

Muskogees

Mus‐ko″gees (?), n. pl.; sing. Muskogee (�). (Ethnol.) A powerful tribe of North American Indians that formerly occupied the region of Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. They consti...

5965

Muskrat

Musk″rat′ (?), n. 1. (Zoöl.) A North American aquatic fur-bearing rodent (Fiber zibethicus). It resembles a rat in color and having a long scaly tail, but the tail is compressed...

5966

Muskwood

Musk″wood′ (?), n.(Bot.) (a) The wood of a West Indian tree of the Mahogany family (Moschoxylum Swartzii). (b) The wood of an Australian tree (Eurybia argophylla).

5967

Musky

Musk″y (?), a. Having an odor of musk, or somewhat the like. Milton.