<B>musician, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person skilled in music. <BR> <I>Ex. The Scots are all musicians. Every man you meet plays on the flute, the violin or violon-cello (Tobias Smollett).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who sings or who plays on a musical instrument, especially as a profession or business. <BR> <I>Ex. An orchestra is composed of many musicians.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a composer of music. </DL>
<A NAME="musicianer">
<B>musicianer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic or Dialect.) a musician. <BR> <I>Ex. The musicianers amused the retainers ... with a tune on the clarionet, fife, or trumpet (Samuel Lover).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="musicianly">
<B>musicianly, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or suited to a musician; showing the skill and taste of a good musician. <BR> <I>Ex. Mr. Cole's instincts appear to be intelligent and musicianly (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="musicianship">
<B>musicianship, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> skill in playing, conducting, or composing music; musical ability. <BR> <I>Ex. She was a great artist, remarkable not for the beauty of her voice, but for musicianship, dramatic power and general intelligence (Sunday Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="musicless">
<B>musicless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>without music. <BR> <I>Ex. a musicless entertainment.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>unmusical; harsh in sound; discordant. <DD><B> 3. </B>ignorant of music. </DL>
<A NAME="musicodramatic">
<B>musico-dramatic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or combining both music and the drama; musical and dramatic. <BR> <I>Ex. The librettist faithfully transmits the vivid bible pictures, but Milhaud fails to give them musico-dramatic reality (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="musicofthespheres">
<B>music of the spheres,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> beautiful harmony or music, inaudible to human beings, supposedly produced, according to Pythagoras and certain other ancient mathematicians, by the movements of the planets and other heavenly bodies. <BR> <I>Ex. For there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres (Sir Thomas Browne).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="musicography">
<B>musicography, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the art of writing down music; musical notation. </DL>
<A NAME="musicological">
<B>musicological, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with musicology. </DL>
<A NAME="musicologist">
<B>musicologist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an expert in musicology. <BR> <I>Ex. The studies of musicologists have clearly shown that the music of all nonliterate peoples shows very definite patterns, and is not in the least random or chaotic (Beals and Hoijer).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="musicology">
<B>musicology, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the systematic study of music, especially of its literature, history, forms, methods, and principles. </DL>
<A NAME="musicomania">
<B>musicomania, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an abnormal fondness of music; monomania for music. </DL>
<A NAME="musicophobia">
<B>musicophobia, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an abnormal fear or dislike of music. </DL>
<A NAME="musicotherapy">
<B>musicotherapy, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the therapeutical use of music; listening to music as a means of promoting emotional health. </DL>
<A NAME="musicroom">
<B>music room,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a room, as in a house, set apart or arranged for use in performing music. <BR> <I>Ex. When he was still an infant he would toddle into the music room and listen while his sisters were having their lessons (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="musicshell">
<B>music shell,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the shell of a marine gastropod, especially a volute of the Caribbean, having markings that suggest written music. </DL>
<A NAME="musicvideo">
<B>music video,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a videotape recording of a visual display accompanying a popular song; video. </DL>
<B>musique concrete,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a compilation of natural sounds recorded on tape and cut and spliced together to form a composition. <BR> <I>Ex. For 150 years the only new instruments to be invented are the saxophone, the musical saw, musique concrete and electronic devices (Time).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>such compositions collectively. </DL>
<A NAME="musjid">
<B>musjid, </B>noun. <B>=mosque.</B></DL>
<A NAME="musk">
<B>musk, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>a substance with a strong and lasting odor, used in making perfumes. Musk is found in a special gland in the skin of the abdomen of the male musk deer. <DD><B> b. </B>a similar substance found in the glands of other animals, such as the mink and muskrat. <DD><B> 2. </B>an artificial imitation of this substance. <DD><B> 3. </B>the odor of musk, or a similar odor. <BR> <I>Ex. The woodbine spices are wafted abroad, And the musk of the rose is blown (Tennyson).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>the musk deer or any animal like it, or one that has a musky smell. <DD><B> 5. </B>any plant whose leaves or flowers smell like musk, such as the musk rose. </DL>
<A NAME="muskallonge">
<B>muskallonge, </B>noun, pl. <B>-longe.</B> <B>=muskellunge.</B></DL>
<A NAME="muskambrette">
<B>musk ambrette,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a synthetic yellowish-white powder with the odor of amberseed, used as a fixative and diluting agent in perfumery. </DL>
<A NAME="muskdeer">
<B>musk deer,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small, hornless deer of central and northeastern Asia, the male of which has a gland containing musk. </DL>
<A NAME="muskduck">
<B>musk duck,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=Muscovy duck.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>an Australian duck, the male of which has a musky odor. </DL>
<A NAME="muskeg">
<B>muskeg, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a bog or marsh filled with sphagnum moss, chiefly in the tundra or forest regions of Canada, Alaska, and northern Europe. <BR> <I>Ex. Much of the Arctic land is muskeg, a swampy muck which will not support even a man, much less an airstrip (Science News Letter).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of certain mosses. </DL>
<A NAME="muskellunge">
<B>muskellunge, </B>noun, pl. <B>-lunge.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a very large North American pike. The muskellunge is valued as a food and game fish. It is a very hard fish to catch. Muskellunge occasionally grow to a length of about 5 1/2 feet and a weight of about 70 pounds. Also, <B>maskalonge,</B> <B>maskanonge,</B> <B>muskallonge.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="musket">
<B>musket, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a gun introduced in the 1500's and widely used before the development of the rifle. </DL>
<A NAME="musketeer">
<B>musketeer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a soldier armed with a musket. </DL>
<A NAME="musketry">
<B>musketry, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>muskets. <BR> <I>Ex. The storming parties were assailed with cannon, with musketry, with pistols (John L. Motley).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the art of shooting with muskets or rifles. <DD><B> 3. </B>the fire of muskets, rifles, or other small arms; small-arms fire. <BR> <I>Ex. a sudden crackle of musketry.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>soldiers armed with muskets. </DL>
<A NAME="muskhog">
<B>musk hog,</B> <B>=peccary.</B></DL>
<A NAME="muskhogean">
<B>Muskhogean, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> designating or having to do with a linguistic family of North American Indians originally from the southeastern United States, including Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole, Yazoo, and other tribes. <DD><I>noun </I> this linguistic family. </DL>
<A NAME="muskie">
<B>muskie, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a muskellunge. Also, <B>musky.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="muskiness">
<B>muskiness, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a musky quality or condition. </DL>
<A NAME="muskmallow">
<B>muskmallow, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a bushy plant of the mallow family grown in tropical and semitropical countries for its musky seeds, which are used in perfumes; abelmosk. </DL>
<A NAME="muskmelon">
<B>muskmelon, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a small, sweet melon with a hard rind and a smell like that of musk. Muskmelons are round or oval, with juicy light-green or orange flesh and a rind with a smooth, ribbed, or netlike surface. The cantaloupe and honeydew melon are muskmelons. <DD><B> 2. </B>the plant of the gourd family that it grows on. </DL>
<B>Muskogee, </B>noun, pl. <B>-gee</B> or <B>-gees.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a member of a tribe of Indians of Georgia and Alabama that formed part of the Creek confederacy of Muskhogean tribes. <DD><B> 2. </B>the language of this tribe. </DL>
<A NAME="muskox">
<B>musk ox,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large arctic mammal having a shaggy coat, stocky build, with a hump and dense, extremely long hair. The male gives off a strong smell like musk during its breeding season. The musk ox is found especially in the tundra regions of North America and Greenland. Musk oxen belong to the same family as the ox. <BR> <I>Ex. Musk oxen ... inhabit some of the most solitary, dreariest country on earth, where they have made a stubborn fight for survival (Science News Letter).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="muskplant">
<B>musk plant,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a North American herb of the figwort family, having yellow flowers and musk-scented leaves. </DL>
<A NAME="muskrat">
<B>muskrat, </B>noun, pl. <B>-rats</B> or (collectively) <B>-rat.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a water animal of North America somewhat like a rat, but larger; water rat. It has webbed hind feet, a glossy coat, and a musky smell. In swamps and ponds it builds small houses from reeds and other water plants, or, sometimes, makes a burrow in the bank, with the opening under water. <DD><B> 2. </B>its dark-brown fur. Muskrat is valuable for garments. </DL>
<A NAME="muskrose">
<B>musk rose,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a rose with clusters of large, musky-smelling, white flowers, native to the Mediterranean region. </DL>
<A NAME="muskthistle">
<B>musk thistle,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a thistle of the eastern United States, with nodding heads of musky-smelling flowers. It was introduced from Eurasia. </DL>
<A NAME="muskturtle">
<B>musk turtle,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a group of small turtles of eastern North America with a narrow plastron and glands capable of producing a strong musky odor. </DL>
<A NAME="musky">
<B>musky</B> (1), adjective, <B>muskier,</B> <B>muskiest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> of or like musk; like that of musk. <BR> <I>Ex. a musky odor.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="musky">
<B>musky</B> (2), noun, pl. <B>-kies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a muskellunge. </DL>
