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musk melon
Forms: see musk n. and melon1; also 6 mush-millian, 7 mus milion, mellon, 9 mush-melon.
[f. musk n.
The name seems to have originally belonged to an oriental melon (Du. muscus-meloen, moscadelmeloen, Dodoens) which has a musky scent, and to have been transferred to the common melon by mistake.]
1. The melon, Cucumis Melo. (Applied both to the fruit and the plant producing it.)
1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 94 Musk million, in April and May. 1578Lyte Dodoens v. xxxi. 590 In Frenche, Melon..in Englishe, Melons and muske Melons. 1591Horsey Trav. (Hakl. Soc.) 253 My water to dress my meat withall was poisoned, my drincke and herbs and mush-millians sent poisoned. 1648Gage West Ind. 61 Bigger then our biggest Muskmillians in England. 1694Penn in Academy (1896) 11 Jan. 36/3 Water and mus mellons. 1766W. Stork Acc. East Florida 48 The vines,..water and musk-melons, are indigenous plants of East-Florida. 1825Motley Corr. (1889) I. i. 4 We have..planted a good many things, such as corn, radishes, water and musk melons, etc. 1884J. G. Bourke Snake Dance of Moquis xxxi. 354 We feasted heartily on mush-melons and clabber.
attrib.1649Survey Manor of Wimbledon in Archæologia X. 432 There is a muskmilion ground trenched, manured, and very well ordered for the groweth of musmilions, which borders, herbes, flowers, and musmilion ground, wee valew to bee worth {pstlg}3 0 0. 1708E. Cook Sot-weed Factor (1865) 19 Musmillion vine.
2. ? Allusively for ‘scented millions’.
1662M. W. Marriage Broaker i. ii. 10 Musk-millions of rich gallants will besiege Her Fort; and my cake's dowe. |