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musa

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incussit suavem mi in pectus amorem musarum
he inspired in my heart a sweet love of the muses
2 musa [Ar. mawza] , a plantain, tree-like herbaceous plant (Musa paradisiaca) or banana tree (Musa sapientum). b medicament made from plantain or banana. a non enim sunt arboris poma [paradisi], sed cujusdam herbe in altum crescentis ad modum arboris, que ~a appellatur; cujus folia in figura et colore foliis cujusdam herbe, que Anglice dicitur radigche, multumque assimilantur,quamvis in longitudine et latitudine illa multum excedant folia enim ipsius communiter habent in longitudine duos vel sex pedes, et in latitudine quandoque unum, quandoque duos ‥ et ‥ predicta herba nunquam facit fructum nisi semel S. Sim. Itin. 40.  b materia competenter purgata detur tertia die rubes tro[chisca] cum aurea parum vel cum ~a enea ante acces[sum] Gilb. I 21v. 1; fiat stupha ‥ exeunti detur ~a vel melius tyriaca Ib. I 39. 1; si fiat emplastrum de ~a enea et ‥ ponatur super loca pulsuum si tunc patiens sudaverit judicandus est evadere J. Mirfield Brev. 66; detur etiam ei interdum ~a cum succo liquiricie et dragaganti Ib. 84.
3 musa [Ar. muzz] , sour apple. ~a vel muscis fructus est in quo dicunt primum parentem †percasse [l. peccasse], alii dicunt in ficu, et est nomen saporis compositi ex sapore dulci et acetoso, A.sourappel Alph. 121.
4 musa v. 3 muscus

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