These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Musk Duck, Muskdeer, Muskegon.
a duck wild in Guiana, etc., where the males fight savagely with each other. It is often reared in poultry yards. Corrupted into Muscovy duck; called also Barbary duck. Also (Biziura lobata), an Australian duck.
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a ruminant Ungulate forming a special family of the Artiodactyla. The musk. deer is an inhabitant of the mountainous regions of central Asia from the extreme N. to as far S. as Cochin-China and Nepal. There is only one species, with perhaps four well-marked varieties.
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a city and county-seat of Muskegon co., Mich.; on Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Muskegon river, Rapids, and Indiana, the Grand Trunk and interurban railroads. Its harbor is one of the best on the lake, and steamboats daily ply between it and Chicago, Milwaukee, and other lake ports. Here are the Hackley Manual Training School, MUSKDEER Hackley Public Library, hospitals, several National banks, electric lights, street railroads, county court house, and several daily and weekly newspapers. It has large lumbering interests, tanneries, woolen mills, marble and granite works, furniture factories, a piano factory, engine and boiler shops, iron and steel works, large celery farms, etc. Pop. (1910) 24,062; (1920) 36,570.
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a town in Muskegon co., Mich. It is on the Grand Rapids and Indiana railway, also on the Grand Rapids and Muskegon railway, the Grand Trunk and the Père Marquette. Pop. (1910) 1,690; (1920) 9,514.
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a smooth-bore hand-gun, with which soldiers were formerly armed. The musket dates from the earliest part of the sixteenth century, having been contrived soon after the introduction of gunpowder. Companies of infantry were at that time divided into pikemen and musketeers. The first musket was a heavy affair. The soldier laid it at rest in a crotched stick and fired it off by means of a burning brand or punk. At a later date the musket was supplied with a steel hammer worked by a spring and a piece of flint held in a clip in such a position that the descending hammer struck off sparks into a pan of exposed powder or priming. The percussion cap with an inner lining of fulminate is a still later invention. By degrees the musket was made lighter, so that it could be carried with some sort of comfort by a single soldier; although pictures of Miles Standish represent him as still requiring a rest for his matchlock. Smooth-bore muskets were obtained by our Revolutionary soldiers from France. In 1895 the government established the manufacture of muskets at Springfield, Massachusetts. The old smooth bore was used in many regiments until the close of the Civil War. This weapon has now been universally displaced by the rifle. See Firearms ; Rifle And is it I That drive thee from the sportive court, where thou Wast shot at with fair eyes, to be the mark Of smoky muskets? --Shakespeare, All's Well, etc.
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an educational institution in New Concord, O.; founded in 1837 under the auspices of the United Presbyterian Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 16; students, 475; volumes in the library, 9,000; endowment, $290,000; grounds and buildings valued at $300,000; income, $80,000. President, J. K. Montgomery.
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the chief river of eastern Ohio. It is formed by the junction of the Walhondin and Tuscarawas rivers and flows in a S. E. direction for 112 miles, through an important agricultural region. It empties into the Ohio river at Marietta. The and on the Père Marquette, the Grand river is navigable for about 100 miles from its mouth.
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a city of Oklahoma, the county-seat of Muskogee co., about 130 miles E. of Oklahoma City. It is situated on the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas; the St. Louis and San Francisco, the Midland Valley, and the Missouri, Oklahoma, and Gulf railroads. It has important public buildings, including a handsome post office, a high school, a library, and several clubs. There is also an excellent system of public parks. It contains the St. Joseph College, the Spaulding Female Institute, and the Oklahoma Woman's College. Its industries include hardware, factories, railroad shops, steel works, oilwell supply works, and cotton goods factories. It is surrounded by important agricultural and stock-raising region. Oil and natural gas are found in abundance. It has the commission form of government, adopted in 1910. Pop. (1910) 25,278; (1920) 30,277.
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lake and islet region of Ontario, Canada, on Muskoka river. Area covering over 4,000 square miles includes nearly 1,000 lakes interspersed with hundreds of islets, surrounded by forest scenery. Summer visitors crowd to the resort for bathing, boating, and fishing.
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ALFRED DE (mü-sā'), a French poet; born in Paris, France, De Dec. 11, 1810. After completing his education at the College of Henry IV., where his fellow-pupil and intimate friend was the Duke of Orleans, son of Louis Philippe, he essayed the most diverse studies. The law, medicine, finance, painting, were in (CH₂CICH)₂S. turn engaged in, in turn abandoned. In 1830, he put forth a small volume of poetry, entitled "Stories of Spain and Italy," which was received with great favor. A celebrity at 23, the young poet made a journey to Italy with George Sand, under the name of confidential secretary. During his last years, he gave himself up to play, and even grosser pleasures. His last volume of verse was published in 1850, and showed a premature decay of the author's powers. He was nevertheless elected a member of the French Academy, in 1852. His best works are his poems, "View from an Armchair"; "The Cup and the Lips"; "Of What do Young Girls Dream?" "Namouna"; "Rolla"; and his two ex- ," and quisite dra dramatic pieces, "A Caprice," "A Door Should be Open or Shut." He died in Paris, May 2, 1857.
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mu-sa', Louis Charles Alfred de (1810-1857), a celebrated French poet. His father was a man of letters, and the son grew up with a strong taste for literature. He tried various professions, but decided at last to devote himself to a literary life. His first volume of poems, Tales of Spain and Italy, was published in 1830. Musset was the author of many poems, some of them ranking among the finest in the French language. He also wrote novels and several dramatic works. Irregular and dissolute living destroyed his health. He became morbid and melancholy. The autobiographic novel, Confession d'un Enfant du Siecle, contains the analysis of a diseased mind.
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