Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small bag containing musk and other perfumes, sometimes used as a sachet.
- noun The pod, pouch, or cyst of the musk-deer which contains the musk.
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Examples
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Such danger that all his royal father could do in honor of the glad event was to break a musk-bag before his faithful followers as sign that the birth of an heir to empire would diffuse itself like perfume through the whole world?
The Adventures of Akbar Flora Annie Steel 1888
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Its great peculiarity is the musk-bag or gland situated nearly under the tail; this is a projecting and valued gland, which secretes the musk, and is used medicinally by the
Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon Samuel White Baker 1857
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Foster-father did not often let his temper get the better of his prudence, but he could not resist saying mildly: "Kingship is like the musk-bag, friend, that was broken at the royal child's birth.
The Adventures of Akbar Flora Annie Steel 1888
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