The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mouflon \Mouf"lon\, n. [F. mouflon.] (Zo["o]l.) A wild sheep ( Ovis musimon), inhabiting the mountains of Sardinia, Corsica, etc. Its horns are very large, with a triangular base and rounded angles. It is supposed by some to be the original of the domestic sheep. Called also musimon or musmon. [Written also moufflon.]
Wiktionary
n. A kind of sheep, the mouflon.
Usage examples of "musmon".
The corral was enlarged, for the flock of musmons and goats had been increased by a number of young ones, who had to be housed and fed.
The cries of the terrified musmons and goats indicated the alarm which possessed them.
When the fine season came round again, they would regularly hunt those musmons which had been seen on the expedition to Mount Franklin, and the wool once collected, the engineer would know how to make it into strong warm stuff.
Skins of carnivora or the wool of ruminants must be procured at any price, and since there were plenty of musmons, it was agreed to consult on the means of forming a flock which might be brought up for the use of the colony.
This enclosure would be large enough to contain a hundred musmons and wild goats, with all the young ones they might produce.
These buildings had also to be made very strong, for musmons are powerful animals, and their first fury was to be feared.
Of a hundred musmons which had been surrounded, more than two-thirds escaped, but at last, thirty of these animals and ten wild goats were gradually driven back towards the corral, the open door of which appearing to offer a means of escape, they rushed in and were prisoners.
In the corral, the flock of musmons had also increased, and several lambs already bleated in the sheds, to the great delight of Neb and Herbert, who had each their favorite among these newcomers.
Now the wool furnished by the musmons was composed of very short hairs, and was in a good condition to be felted.
The corral was enlarged, for the flock of musmons and goats had been increased by a number of young ones, who had to be housed and fed.
They had plenty of felt clothing, and the musmons, very numerous by this time, had furnished an abundance of wool necessary for the manufacture of this warm material.
The musmons and the goats, sleeping no doubt in their huts, in no way disturbed the calm of night.
Every other day one of the settlers, driving the cart or mounted on an onager, went to look after the flock of musmons and goats and bring back the supply of milk required by Neb.
Before everything it was necessary to go to the corral, where the flocks of musmons and goats were enclosed, and replenish the provision of forage for those animals.
It had been decided that a corral should be established near the sources of the Red Creek, at the foot of Mount Franklin, destined to contain the ruminants, whose presence would have been troublesome at Granite House, and especially for the musmons, who were to supply the wool for the settlers' winter garments.