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† muscane, a. Sc. Obs.
Also muskane.
[Of doubtful origin; cf. Gael. mosgain ‘having dry-rot, as wood’ (McAlpine), Irish mosgán ‘rotten, decayed’ (O'Reilly); also Norw. mosken of the same meaning, and mosker v.]
Of wood: Rotten, decaying.
Warner mistook the word in the Bellenden passage for the name of a kind of wood.
1501Douglas Pal. Hon. i. iii, Not throw the soyl bot muskane treis sproutit. Ibid. xix, I agane maist like ane elriche grume Crap in the muskane aikin stok misharrit. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) II. 152 Ilk ane of thame had in thair hand ane club of muscane tre, quhilk kest ane uncouth glance, with the fische scalis, in the mirk. 1606Warner Alb. Eng. xiv. xc. (1612) 366 A club of Muscane in one hand,..For naturally that wood in darke giues Shine. |