Musk

Quick meaning: Musk is a noun meaning A greasy secretion with a powerful odour, produced in a glandular sac of the male musk deer and used in the manufacture of perfumes.

Meaning

A greasy secretion with a powerful odour, produced in a glandular sac of the male musk deer and used in the manufacture of perfumes.

More Meanings

1. A similar secretion produced by the otter and the civet.
2. A synthetic organic compound used as a substitute for the above.
3. The odour of musk.
4. A musk deer (genus Moschus).
5. A muskflower (Erythranthe moschata).
6. A plant of the genus Erodium (Erodium moschatum); the musky heronsbill.
7. A plant of the genus Muscari; grape hyacinth.

Example Sentences

I was so excited I could smell my own musk.

An old medical record relates that by means of musk the genital power of a man in his eightieth year was resuscitated.

Your onely way to make a good pomander, is this. Take an ownce of the pureſt garden mould, clenſed and ſteeped ſeauen daies in change of motherleſſe roſe water, then take the beſt Labdanum, Benioine, both Storaxes, amber greece, and Ciuet, and muſke, incorporate them together, and work them into what form you pleaſe; this, if your breath bee not to valiant, will make you ſmell as ſweete as my Ladies dogge.

Word Forms

• musks
• musking
• musked

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