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that thole, who are moll averfe to perfumes, may take it 
in that form without inconvenience. For, as Etmuller 
and others have long ago obferved, the fmell of the per¬ 
fume is often found to be of diflervice, where the fub- 
flance inwardly taken produces good effects. It is pity 
that a medicine of this confequence Ihould be fo liable 
to adulterations, and that the criteria of its genuinenels 
are ill fettled. 
To MUSjK, v. a. To perfume with mulk. Cot-grave. 
MUSK, f. [majca , Lat.] Grape-hyacinth or grape- 
flower. Jolmfon. 
MUS'K-APPLE, f. A kind of apple. AinfwortJi. 
MUSK-BULL'. See Bos mofchatus, vol. iii. p. 224. 
MUSK-CHER'RY, f. A fort of cherry. Ahifworth. 
MUSK CRA'NE’s-BILL, f. in botany. See Erodium 
mofchatum, vol. vi. p. 908. 
MUSK-MEL'ON, f. A fragrant melon.—The way of 
maturation of tobacco mull be from the heat of the earth 
or fun ; we fee fome leading of this in mufk-melons, which 
are fown upon a hotbed dunged below, upon a bank 
turned upon the fouth fun. Bacon. 
MUSK-O'CHRA. See Hibiscus, vol. ix. 
MUSK-PE'AR, /! A fragrant pear. 
MUSK-RAT'. See p. 234. 
MUSK-RO'SE, f. A role fo called from its fragrance. 
—The mujk-roje will, if a 1 ulty plant, bear flowers in au¬ 
tumn, without cutting. Boyle. 
Thyrfis, whole artful llrains have oft delay’d 
The huddling brook to hear his madrigal, 
And fweeten’d every mujk-roj'e of the dale. Milton. 
MUS'K-SEED. See Hibiscus. 
MUS'KED, adj. Perfumed with mulk. AJli. 
MUSKER'RY, a barony in the county of Cork, Ire¬ 
land, the chief town of which is Macromp. It is fituated 
on the river Sullane, and is in the new road from Cork 
tp Killarney. Its callle is very ancient, having been 
built in the reign of king John ; but, having been much 
injured by fire in 1641, it was altered into a more modern 
ItruCture by the earls of Clancarty. This place is 141 
miles fouth-welt from Dublin, and well from Cork. 
MUS'KET, or Musouet,/ [movfquet,Fr. mofquetto, Ital. 
a fmall hawk. Many of the fire-arms are named from ani¬ 
mals. Johnfon. —From mojchcttn, low Lat. “ balilla quaedam 
antiquis.” Du CangeJ A foidier’s hand-gun. A fire¬ 
arm borne on the llioulder, and uled in war; it was fired 
by the application of a lighted match.—The length of the 
mujket is fixed to three feet eight inches from the muzzle 
to the touch-pan, and its bore is to be l’uch as may re¬ 
ceive a bullet of fourteen in a pound, and its diameter 
differs not above -j’gth part from that of the bullet. 
Mujkets were ufed in England to lately as the beginning 
of the civil wars. They are faid to have been firlt in¬ 
vented in the year 1520 or 1521. Chambers. 
They charge their mujkets, and, with hot delire 
Of full revenge, renew the fight with fire. Waller. 
The Spaniards in the time of Philip II. caufed mulkets 
to be made of a very great calibre, and fuch that a llrong 
and vigorous foot-foldier might carry them: but they 
were lb heavy, that they could not be prefented without 
the afliltance of Haves Ihod and pointed at the bottom, 
and which they fixed into the earth, making life of a fork 
that was at the top, as a prop to fullain the end of the 
mulket: thefe large mulkets carried to a great dillance, 
and by the fize of their balls infiidted dreadful wounds: 
but, on account of their weight, they left oft' ufing them 
in the field, and reilricled them to fieges The incon- 
liderable execution done by pieces of fmall calibre pro¬ 
bably caufed the introduction of the mulket, which was 
a long heavy piece, carrying large balls, and on account 
of its fize and weight fired on a kind of fork, called a reft. 
(See Artillery, vol. ii. p. 235.) The reft continued in 
-ufe for a confiderable time ; but on certain occafions, 
being found unwieldly and inconvenient, a lighter kind 
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of piece was introduced, generally known by the name of 
the caliver, which was fired without any fuch afliltance. 
This caliver was a lighter kind of matchlock-piece, be¬ 
tween a harquebufe and a mulket, and fired without a 
reft. But, before the entire difmiflion of the reft, divers 
attempts were made to convert it to a defence againft 
cavalry, whillt the mulketeer was loading, by arming it 
with a projecting fpike from one of the prongs of the 
fork, ferving for the head, or part on which the mulket 
was laid; or by enclosing a tuck in the lhaft of the reft, 
which, on opening a fmall valve, lprung out: rells thus 
armed were called the Swines or Swedijh feathers, and 
were contrivances preceding the ule of the bayonet. 
At prefent mulkets are little ufed, fufees and firelocks 
having taken their place and name. From an ingenious 
military treatife, entitled “ Englilh Military Difcipline,” 
and printed in 1680, we learn that the fufil or firelock 
was then in ufe in our army, efpecially among the fufi- 
leers and grenadiers; and probably the appellation of 
fufileers was given to t-hofe troops that were armed with 
fufils. Perhaps the fufileer-regiments were originally a 
fort of grenadiers, as like them they wear caps, and have 
no enfigns. Fufileers are foot-l'oldiers armed with fufees 
with flings to fling them. There are four regiments in 
our army, which have always been called fufileers, and 
pals under the name of Englilh, Scotch, Irilh, and Welfli, 
fufileers. The firlt defign of fufileers was to guard the 
artillery, to which end the regiment of fufileers, com¬ 
manded by fir Charles O’Hara, was firlt railed. To fupply 
the want of pikes, and to fecure themfelves againft horfe, 
the fufileers ufed to carry turnpikes along with them, 
which in a camp were placed along the front of a bat¬ 
talion, and on a march were carried by the foldiers, each 
carrying one of the ftiort pikes, and two, by turns, the 
fpar through which they are thruft; fo that they were 
quickly put together. According to Millan’s fucceflkm 
of colonels, the 7th regiment, or royal Englilh fufileers, 
was railed, June nth, 1685; the 21ft regiment, or royal 
North Britilh fufileers, 23d September, 1679 ; the 23d, or 
royal Wellh fufileers, 17th March, 1688 ; but there is no 
Irilh regiment bearing the appellation of fufileers. For 
every thing relating to the manufacture of firelocks, 
fufils, &c. fee the article Gun, vol. ix. p. 97-108. 
MUS'KET, /! [mouchet, Fr. perhaps from the Lat. mufca, 
a fly.] A male hawk of a fmall kind, the female of which 
is the fparrow-hawk ; fo that eyas mujket is a young un¬ 
fledged male hawk of that kind. Haunter. —How now, 
my eyas mujket, what news with you. Shahefpeare. 
The mujket and the coyltrel were too weak; 
Too fierce the falcon. Dryden. 
MUS'KET BALL, f. The bullet with which a mulket 
is charged.—One was brought to us, (hot with a mujket- 
ball on the right fide of his head. Wifeman. 
MUS'KET-BASKET, J. in fortification, an earth- 
balket, fo called becaufe, being a foot wide at top and 
only S or 10 inches at bottom, there is room to place a 
mulket between each at the bottom as they Hand in a 
row. Th^y are about a foot or a foot and a half high ; 
and, being filled with earth, they are fet on low brealt- 
works, or parapets, or upon fuch as are beaten down. 
James's Mil Dill. 
MUS'KET-SHOT, f The range of a mulket.— Fie 
perceived a body of horfe within mujketJhot of him. 
Clarendon. 
MUSKETEE'R, f. A foldier whole weapon is his rauf- 
ket.—The duke of Alva went himfelf with a company of 
nujcateers, and conquered them. Howell. —Notwithftand- 
ing they had lined fome hedges with mujketeers, they pur- 
fued them till they were difperfed. Clarendon. 
The mulketeers in the reign of James and Charles I. 
carried their powder in little wooden, tin, or leather, 
cylindric boxes, each containing one charge. Twelve of 
thefe were fixed to a belt worn over the left fhoulder, 
called a bandoleer; a contrivance which feems to have 
been 
