单词 | musked |
释义 | muskedadj. Now rare. Flavoured or perfumed with musk; tasting or smelling of musk. Also figurative.Frequently in the names of plants, often translating the scientific Latin epithet moschatus: cf. musk n. Compounds 5a. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > [adjective] > smelling of specific things rosat?c1425 rosetc1450 rosed1559 musked1576 musky1580 rosya1586 myrrhed1591 muskifiedc1600 roseal1601 olibian1605 roseate1611 honeysuckled1640 myrrhate1659 muscatelline1673 myrrhy1686 muskish1706 thymy1746 rose-scented1759 civeted1785 lily-scented1796 ottoed1810 citron-scented1817 camphory1826 camphoraceous1845 tea-scented1845 frankincensed1860 rose-like1866 sagey1871 camphorous1881 osier-odoured1881 lemony1894 lavendery1896 patchoulied1925 1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health iv. f. 227v Adde..of sublimed wyne..vj. pyntes of Rosewater Musked, one pynt and a halfe. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 795 Mvsked Cranes bill hath many weake and feeble branches trailing vpon the grounde. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 796 It is called..Geranium moscatum: in English Musked Storkes bill, and Cranes bill. ?1614 W. Drummond Sonnet: Alexis here shee stay'd in Poems Shee set her by these musket Eglantines. 1659 R. Lovell Παμβοτανολογια 236 Musked Grapeflower. K[nown] as the yellow, & ash-coloured. 1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. xvi. 762/2 The Musked Julep against Fits of the Mother. 1706 G. London & H. Wise Retir'd Gard'ner I. i. xi. 51 Abricots of the best Sort, whereof two must be musked. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Geranium Musked Crane's-bill or Moscovy. 1753 J. Armstrong Taste 96 But hear their Raptures o'er some specious Rhime Dub'd by the musk'd and greasy Mob sublime. 1802 W. Forsyth Treat. Fruit-trees vii. 90 Its colour red and yellow; its flesh tender and musked. 1802 G. Colman Broad Grins (1819) 67 Blithe was fat John!... But, so perfume'd, so musk'd for the occasion. 1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour xii. lxvii. 375 A musked cambric kerchief. 1910 M. J. Cawein Shadow Garden iii. 41 The musked bitterness, that made my bloom Acrid as sorrow, is grown suddenly sweet. 1995 People (Nexis) 22 May 25 Its scent lay fetid in the air, rotten, musked, overpoweringly seductive like the juice of a strange woman. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1576 |
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