CIVET

Jack's Reference Book for Home and Office : An Encyclopaedia of General Information: General Information · 1909 · p. 5

a carnivorous animal of the kind, secreting by means of a gland iz hinder parts an oily substance yiek the aoe once so esteemed. I found wild in the hot parts of Asia Africa, and is often kept in confinem for the sake of obtaining the civet perfu [s. 101]