Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
muskrat , 1.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) See
muskrat . - noun (Bot.) an umbelliferous plant (
Cicuta maculata ), having a poisonous root. SeeWater hemlock .
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- noun
Muskrat .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Twice or thrice pinnate leaves, toothed like a tenon saw, with conspicuous veins ending in the notches, brand it as the beaver poison, otherwise known as the musquash root and spotted cowbane.
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The musquash, however, as near as I could see, did not turn aside, though he may have hesitated a little, and the Indian said that he saw our fire; but it was evident that he was in the habit of calling the musquash to him, as he said.
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An acquaintance of mine who was hunting moose in the woods a month after this, tells me that his Indian in this way repeatedly called the musquash within reach of his paddle in the moonlight, and struck at them.
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The musk-rat, _Fiber zibethecus_, sometimes called musquash from the Algonquin word, _m8sk8éss8_, is found in three varieties, the black, and rarely the pied and white.
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Jimmie held up his hands in horror, until Jack explained that if properly cooked the "musquash" of the Indian was considered very good food and eaten by many French Canadian trappers in the Northwest and
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A frock of white silk velvet brocade, over which was worn a mantle cloak of black chiffon and musquash
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Tall, over-dressed, musquash and those abbreviated sort of shoes with jewelled heels and hardly any uppers — you know the sort of thing.
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Maigret had no idea; the wife of a divisional superintendent usually had to make do with rabbit fur or, at best, musquash and racoon.
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I feel no disposition to be satirical, when the trapper's coat emits the odor of musquash even; it is a sweeter scent to me than that which commonly exhales from the merchant's or the scholar's garments.
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The boys made sure of this, not fancying the idea of having to depend upon the musquash alone.
pitseleh commented on the word musquash
An archaic name for the Muskrat, derived from the Abenaki native word mòskwas.
September 14, 2009
bilby commented on the word musquash
Cute name.
September 14, 2009
sionnach commented on the word musquash
Generally hangs out between the lambdasquash and the nusquash, way down in the pecking order from the alphasquash.
September 14, 2009