▪ I. muscadine1
(ˈmʌskədaɪn, -ɪn)
Forms: 6 muskadyn(e, (musca-, muskedyne, moscadyn, musadene, 6–7 muskadine, 7 -den, muskedine, muscadin), 6– muscadine.
[Of somewhat obscure origin; not found in Fr. (cf., however, muscadin and muscadine2); prob. an English formation on Pr. muscat, fem. muscade (see muscatel) + -ine.
Cf. It. ‘moscatini, certain grapes, peares and apricocks so called’ (Florio 1598).]
1. In full muscadine-wine. = muscatel 1. Obs. exc. Hist.
| 1541 Rutland MSS. (1905) IV. 310 For a galon and a pynte..of muskadyne, xviij d. Ibid. 324 A rwndlett off Musadene. 1542 Udall Erasm. Apoph. 137 b, Well fauoured or beautyfull stroumpettes he auoched to bee like vnto bastarde or muscadyne. 1593 Nashe Christ's T. 32 Buts of Sack and Muscadine. 1607 Dekker & Marston Northw. Hoe iv. D.'s Wks. 1873 III. 54 Bel... How tooke he this drench downe. May. Like Egs and Muscadine, at a gulp. 1660 Pepys Diary 19 Nov., And so he and I to the Sun and I did give him a morning draft of Muscadine. 1763 Smollett Trav. (1766) I. xii. 210 The village of St. Laurent, famous for its Muscadine wines. 1851 Longfellow Gold. Leg. iv. Convent of Hirschau, The beautiful town that gives us wine With the fragrant odour of Muscadine. 1889 Doyle Micah Clarke 72 Three flasks of most excellent muscadine. |
2. In full muscadine grape. The name of several varieties of grape having the flavour or odour of musk; also, a vine bearing a variety of this grape.
| 1611 Florio, Moscatello, the Muskadine grape. 1629 Parkinson Parad. 563 The white Muscadine Grape is a verie great Grape. The redde Muscadine is as great as the white. 1664 Evelyn Kal. Hort., Aug. 72 Other Fruit. Cluster-grape, Muscadine, Corinths, [etc.]. 1706 London & Wise Retir'd Gard. I. 20 This Exposition is fit only for Muscadines, Fig-trees and the like. 1719 ― Compl. Gard. 156 In moderate Climates the Muscadine Grape requires a South Wall. 1856 Gray Man. Bot. (1860) 78 Vitis vulpina, L. (Muscadine or Southern Fox-Grape). 1860 Hogg Fruit Man. 97 Black Muscadine... This is an excellent grape, and has a trace of musky aroma in its flavour. Ibid. 114 Royal Muscadine. Ibid., The White Muscadine of some authors is the Early Chasselas. 1874 Lanier Poems, Corn (1892) 18 Long Muscadines Rich-wreathe the spacious foreheads of great pines. |
† 3. A variety of pear. = muscatel 4. Obs.
| 1755 in Johnson; and in some later Dicts. |
4. quasi-adj. Resembling muscadine wine.
| 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. xii. 336 Most decoctions of astringent plants..doe leave in the liquor a deep and Muscadine red. |
▪ II. † ˈmuscadine2 Obs.
Also 7 muskedine, muskadine, musquedine.
[ad. F. muscadin, alteration of muscardin, ad. It. moscardino: see moscardino.]
A sweetmeat perfumed with musk.
| 1665 May Accompl. Cook (ed. 2) 271 To make Muskedines, called Rising Comfits or Kissing Comfits. Index, Musquedines. 1696 Salmon Fam. Dict. (ed. 2), Muskadines, to make. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Muscadine,..a sort of Sugar-Work made by Confectioners. |
▪ III. ˈmuscadine3 rare—1.
[A quasi-Fr. fem. f. muscadin.]
A Parisian lady of fashion.
| 1794 [see muscadin]. |