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muscare [cf. 2 muscus] 1 to emit an odour. dum male muscantem livens lepra prodit, et albor / arguit errantem detegit atque nefas E. Thrip. SS V 21. 2 (p ppl. as adj.) scented with musk or a similar odour. b (acus ~ata) musk storksbill (Erodium moschatum), herb Robert (Geranium robertianum), or sim. c (herba ~ata) sweet woodruff (Asperula odorata). d (nux ~ata) nutmeg (Myristica fragrans). pliris ~ati Gilb. II 120. 2; inunctio cum unguento ~ato Ib. II 120v. 2; Ib. III 158v. 2, etc. (v. alipta); unguentum ~atum ‥ bonum est; sed est magnum et carum pro divitibus Gad. 66v. 1.  b acus ~ata Gad. 125v. 1; Alph. 2, 110 (v. 2 acus 3a); acus ~ata major MS BL Sloane 405 f. 7v.  c Gilb. III 149. 2; Gad. 49. 2; Herb. Harl. 3388 f. 80v (v. 1 hasta 7); herba ~ata, muge de bois MS BL Add. 15236 f. 177v; herba ~ata, i. hastula regia, woderove SB 24; herba ~ata major et minor Alph. 80.  d queritur quare si aliquis nucem ~atam de sero comedit, urina in crastina die redolebit? Quaest. Salern. R 6; 1205 dim’ libr’ de girofl’ et in libr’ de nucibus musgatis Cl 21b; 1207 una libra nucis musgate xij s. Cl 88a; 1213 dim’ libr’ nuc’ muscat’ Cl 156b; arboris hic fructus nux est muscata; per illam / lux celebris stomacho festa diurna colit Garl. Epith. IV 297; comportes aloen, calamitam, cinnama, muscum, / muscatamque nucem, macis, odora thyma Ib. VI 362; 1303 cyphus de nucibus muscadis munitus arg’ cum cooperculo de eadem secta sine pede DocExch 279; Gad. 4v. 2 (v. confortativus c); 1417 in nucibus ~atis, vj d. Ac. Durh. 286; 14‥ de qualibet libra gariofili galyngale nucis ~ati masseorum quibibes croci et cerici ven. ob. EEC 213; macis non est flos nucis ~ate ut quidam credunt, sed adheret ipsi nuci ~ate, et circa ramum ut videtur in avellana MS BL Sloane 3217 f. 48v. 3 (as sb f. or n.) ointment scented with musk or a similar odour. pliris, arcoticon, ~ata Gilb. II 105v. 1; ungatur caput ‥ ~ato Ib. III 159. 2. 4 sweet red wine made from muscat grape. sumat de electuario cum ~ato Bacon V 97.

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