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Muscovy

NOUN
  1. a Russian principality in the 13th to 16th centuries; Moscow was the capital

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  • The grand dukes became the tsars of Muscovy, who in turn became emperors of the Russian Empire.
  • A strain of virus named FM01 was isolated from the liver of dead semi-muscovy ducks characterized similar to Newcastle disease. It was determined to be a paramyxovirus type 1 by HA and HI tests.
  • Great (1462-1505) that Russia, -- now frequently called Muscovy from the fact that it had been reorganized with Moscow as a centre, -- after a terrible struggle, succeeded in freeing itself from the hateful Tartar domination, and began to assume the character of a well-consolidated monarchy. General History for Colleges and High Schools
  • While in quest of these, the blue heron, the large and small brown heron, the boatbill and muscovy duck now and then rise up before you. Wanderings in South America
  • The genetic parameters of major quantity traits of white feather muscovy duck RF line were estimated with variance component of the mixed family.
  • How the backward, Oriental tsardom of Muscovy has been transformed into the huge empire of Russia, now comprising one-sixth of the land surface and one-twelfth of the population of the earth, is one of the most fascinating phases of the history of modern times. A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
  • _Muscovy-glass_; and you may very easily change any of the Colours of any part of the interposed body, by pressing the Plates closer and harder together, or leaving them more lax; that is, a part which appeared coloured with a red, may be presently ting'd with a yellow, blew, green, purple, or the like, by altering the appropinquation of the terminating Plates. Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
  • For him it was no new conviction that his presence in any part of the world, from Africa to the steppes of Muscovy alike, was enough to dumfound people and impel them to insane self-oblivion. War and Peace
  • The result showed that, distribution of NS1 protein is widest in tissue of muscovy duck and goose, but less in fowl and duck.
  • But to returne to the increase and mayneteynaunce of our shippes and shippmen; I say that this is not as the voyadge to Muscovy, which is open not paste foure monethes, but may be passed and repassed at our pleasure at all tymes of the yere, and so our maryners may be sett on worke all the yere longe. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II.
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