Muscovy

At Archangel, Russia's White Sea port, he found something he called a Muscovy Rose.

How Their Garden Did Grow 2008

The Muscovy is a heavy bird, suitable mainly for meat production.

28 additional technical notes about tropical agriculture 1996

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 Philip Van Ness Myers

For this man, indeed, the reliques, the trappings, the minaret-crowned monuments, the barbaric chants and gold ornaments, all the thousand rich things that recalled Muscovy and the buried empire to him, and that he loved so dearly, were valuable chiefly because they were the emblems of the time that bore the happy present.

Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918

Of the ornamental ducks the best known species is that with red wattles on its head and neck, which is generally called the Muscovy duck, but which is not, as its name imports, a native of Muscovy; for the name is a corruption of moschata or musk duck, in allusion to the peculiar smell of the creature.

The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845

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. Richard Hakluyt 1584

Among these may be observed the great musk duck, misnamed "Muscovy," and the black-necked swan; both indigenous to the

Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco Mayne Reid 1850

We remembered the year the kids saw a cougar by the airport and the year the Muscovy duck made her nest under the condo's stairwell.

The Last Swim Marcelle Heath 2011

We opted for pork schnitzel and Muscovy duck instead.

Living It Up in Death Valley Christina Binkley 2011

The duck noodle soup (Muscovy duck, roasted peppers, $15) and the decadent lobster noodles (lobster, cod, sunchoke, hen of the woods mushrooms, $19) have been popular "mainstream" items so far, Mr. Bogner said.

Oodles of Noodles 2010