Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for MUS'MON, or MUS'I-MON
MUS'MON, or MUS'I-MON, n.
An animal esteemed a species of sheep, described by the ancients as common in Corsica, Sardinia and Barbary. Buffon considers it to be the sheep in a wild state. Encyc.
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