musion
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin mus (“mouse”) + -ion (compare mouser).
Noun
[edit]musion (plural musions)
- (heradry, rare) A wild or domestic cat.
- 1572, John Bossewell, Workes of Armorie, Richard Totell, page 56:
- This beaste is called a Musion, for that he is enimie to Myse, and Rattes.
- 1912, George Harvey Johnston, Scottish Heraldry Made Easy, page 47:
- Blue, a silver cat salient (SMYTH OF BALHARY). Silver, three black domestic cats (or musions) in pale (KEATE). Green, a silver boar (or sanglier) passant (POLLARD) (Plate VII., fig. 1).