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is a corruption of the Malay word mooseem (year or season). For six months it is a north-east trade-wind, and for six months a south-west.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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