Musth

Quick meaning: Musth is a noun meaning (countable) An instance of this.

Meaning

(countable) An instance of this.

More Meanings

1. (also attributive, uncountable) Chiefly preceded by in or on: the state each year during which a male animal (usually a camel or an elephant) exhibits increased aggressiveness and sexual activity due to a high level of testosterone.

Example Sentences

No animal in the world is so dangerous as an elephant in must.

I couldn't see the driver, and across my mind it rushed / That the Commissariat elephant had suddenly gone musth.

I have seen men deal with enraged elephants and live; but never was man yet born of woman that met my lord the elephant in his musth and lived to tell of the taming.

At MalaMala we are charged by a bull elephant. The late sun reflecting on the moisture at his temporal gland shows he is in musth, and mad with lust, and we have inadvertently separated him from the breeding cows of his desire.

Word Forms

• musths
• must

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Related dictionary entries include must, makhna, mastodont, mukna, mahout, musk.

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