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of organic origin acquire during warm, moist weather; foul or sour and fetid; moldy; as, musty corn; musty books. Harvey.

ughty hero. Sir Thopas wex [grew] a doughty swain. Chaucer. Doughty families, hugging old musty quarrels to their hearts, buffet each other from generation to generation. Motley.

Fusty; musty. [Obs.] Johnson.

Fetid, musty; rank; disordered and offensive to the smell or sight; slovenly; dingy. See Frowzy. "Petticoats in frouzy heaps." Swift.

Musty. rancid; as, frowy butter. "Frowy feed." Spenser

A strong, musty smell; mustiness.

Moldy; musty; ill-smelling; rank. "A fusty plebeians." Shak.

Musty; moldy; stale. [Obs.] Shak.

Moldy; musty. [Obs.] Granmer.

Moldy; mossy; musty. [Obs.] Knolles.

Musty; moldy; slimy; mucous. -- Mu"cid*ness, n.

To make musty; to become musty.

In a musty state.

The quality or state of being musty.

Damp; musty. [Prov. Eng.]

Having a rank smell or taste, from chemical change or decomposition; musty; as, rancid oil or butter.

Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell; rank- smelling rue. Spenser.

Musty; tainted. [Obs.]

Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned.

A peculiar flavor or taint; as, a musty tack. [Obs. or Colloq.] Drayton.