Musk: alternatives and connections

A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secreti…

Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or, contracted, aa), / ij., that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces.

Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the color of horses.

An unidentified substance mentioned in the Bible (Gen. ii. 12, and Num. xi. 7), variously taken to be a gum, a precious stone, or pear…

A fish; the ruff or pope.

An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous,…

Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.

The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.

The edible nut of a forest tree (Castanea vesca) of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur.

A substance, of the consistence of butter or honey, taken from glands in the anal pouch of the civet (Viverra civetta). It is of clear…

A female deer or antelope; specifically, the female of the fallow deer, of which the male is called a buck. Also applied to the female…

A mound or small hill.

Like or pertaining to the fox; foxlike in disposition or looks; wily.

Possessed of original life and vigor; new and strong; unimpaired; sound.

Of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water mussels.

A stag; the male of the red deer. See the Note under Buck.

See Honey eater, under Honey.

A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (E. caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a ver…