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kp-eb0715-045506-5124 | MOOT, a difficult case argued by the young barristers and students at the inns of court, by way of exercise, the better to qualify them for practice, and for defending the causes of their clients. This is called mooting, and forms the chief exercise of the inns of court. Particular times are appointed for the arguing o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-045507-5124 | MOOTAPILLY, a town of Hindustan, in Guntoor circar, on the coast of Coromandel, situated at the mouth of a river which falls into the Bay of Bengal. Long. 80.10. E. Lat. 15. 35. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-045508-5124 | MOPSUS, in fabulous history, a celebrated prophet during the Trojan war, the son of Manto and Apollo. He was consulted by Amphimachus, king of Colophon, who wished to know what success would attend his arms in a war which he was going to undertake; and he predicted the greatest calamities; but Calchas, who had been a s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-045509-5124 | MORAD, one of the head streams of the Euphrates, and the most considerable of the whole, which has its source under the walls of Bayazed, in about 38. 40. north latitude, and 43. 30. east longitude. It flows westward, and joins the northern branch near Kebban, in Mount Taurus. The valley through which this river runs y... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-045601-5137 | MORAL PHILOSOPHY.^[1. This Treatise seems to have been compiled for the second edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica; and, with the addition of a short preliminary view of the History of Ethics, which it received in the third, it has been reprinted in all the subsequent editions. To have republished this historical p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-049001-5579 | MORAL Sense, that by which we perceive what is good, and virtuous, and beautiful, in actions, manners, and characters. See Moral Philosophy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-049002-5579 | MORASS, a marsh, fen, or low moist ground, which receives the waters from above without having any outlet to carry them off again. Somner derives the word from the Saxon merse, lake; Salmasius from mare, a collection of waters; others from the German marast, a muddy place; and others again from maresc, an abbreviation ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-049003-5579 | MORAVIA, one of those larger divisions of the Austrian empire which has been formed out of the ancient margravate of that name, to which has been joined that portion of Silesia which remained under the Austrian dominion after the cessions extorted from it by Frederick the Great of Prussia. This province is bounded on t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-049101-5592 | MORAYSHIRE, or Murra yshire, a county in Scotland. The province of Moray formerly included part of the shires of Inverness and Banff, and that of Nairn, besides the present county; but the name is now confined to this district, which is also known by the appellation of Elginshire. It is situated between 57° 12' and 57°... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-049201-5605 | MORBIHAN, a department of the north-west of France, formed out of a portion of Lower Bretagne, and deriving its name from a shallow bay to the south of Vannes. It extends in west longitude from 2. 11. to 3.55., and in north latitude from 47.17. to 48. 14. It is bounded on the north by the department of the North Coasts... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-049202-5605 | MORBUS Comitialis, a name given to the epilepsy, because, if on any day when the Roman people were assembled in comitia upon public business, any person fell down suddenly seized with this disorder, the assembly was dissolved, and the business of the comitia i however important, suspended. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-049203-5605 | MORDAUNT, Charles, Earl of Peterborough, a celebrated commander both by sea and land, was the son of John Lord Mordaunt Viscount Avalon, and was born about the year 1658. In 1675 he succeeded his father in his honours and estate. Whilst yet a young man, he served under Admirals Torrington and Narborough in the Mediterr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-049301-5618 | MORE, Sir Thomas, Lord High Chancellor of England, was the son of Sir John More, knight, one of the judges of the King’s Bench, and born in the year 1480, in Milk Street, London. He was first sent to a school at St Anthony’s, in Threadneedle Street, and afterwards introduced into the family of Cardinal Moreton, who in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-049501-5644 | MOREA, late a province of the Turkish empire, now a part of the state of Greece. It extends in north latitude from 36. 23. 20. to 38. 26. 4. and in east longitude from 21. 5. to 23. 29., being 7920 square miles. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-049502-5644 | MOREAU, John Victor, one of the greatest generals of the French revolution, was born at Morlaix, in the year 1763. He was the son of a respectable advocate, who had destined him for the same profession; but having early conceived a decided predilection for the army, he enlisted in a regiment, in which he served for a s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-049801-5683 | MOREBAT, a sea-port of Arabia, situated on the southern coast, on a bay bounded by a cape of the same name. It is a poor place; and the inhabitants carry on little trade either by sea or land with the interior. The town is about two miles south of the Cape. Long. 55.4. E. Lat. 17. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-049802-5683 | MOREL, William, a learned printer, was born in the year 1505, at Tillcul, a town of the county of Mortain, in Normandy. Though the son of poor parents, he nevertheless found means to procure education; made rapid progress in the study of the ancient languages; and having gone to Paris, gave lessons in Greek to some you... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-049901-5696 | MORELL, Andrew, an eminent antiquary, was born at Berne, in Switzerland, on the 9th of June 1646. He had a strong passion for medals, in the knowledge of which he equalled, if not surpassed, all his contemporaries; and in the course of his travels, which were extensive, he made large collections of them. His rapid prog... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-049902-5696 | MORELLI, James, the celebrated librarian of St Mark, at Venice, was born in that city on the 14th of April 1745. His father, a native of Lugano, exercised the employment of proto-muratore. Morelli received the rudiments of his education under a priest named Testa, but it was in a convent of Dominicans that he acquired ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-050001-5709 | MORERI, Louis, author of the Historical Dictionary which bears his name, was born at Bargemont, in Provence, on the 25th of March 1643. Being destined for holy orders, he received the elements of his education at Draguignan and at Aix, and afterwards went to study theology at Lyons, where he acquired a knowledge of the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-050002-5709 | MORESQUE, Moresk, or Morisco, a kind of painting, carving, or other similar work executed after the manner of the Moors, and consisting of several grotesque pieces with compartments promiscuously intermingled, containing not any perfect figure of a man, or other animal, but only a wild resemblance of birds, beasts, tre... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-050003-5709 | MORETON-EN-MARSH, a township of the parish of Bourton-on-the-Hill, in the hundred of Westminster, and county of Gloucester, eighty-two miles from London, on the great road to Birmingham by Oxford. The ancient/oss-way from the west to the north of England runs through this town. The population amounted in 1801 to 829, i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-050004-5709 | MORGAGNI, John Baptist, one of the greatest physicians of the eighteenth century, was born at Forli,in Italy, on the 25th February 1682. After having made rapid progress in the learned languages and belles lettres, he studied medicine at Bologna, where he remained several years, and then proceeded to Venice and Padua, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-050101-5722 | MORGARTEN, a small village on a hill in Switzerland, on the frontier of the two cantons of Zug and Schwitz. It is of small extent and population, and only remarkable from its historical recollections. It was the field of the first battle fought by the Swiss for their independence in 1315, when they defeated the Austria... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-050102-5722 | MORGHEN, Raphael, one of the most distinguished engravers that ever lived, was born at Naples in 1758. His father followed the profession of engraver, and from him young Morghen received his earliest instructions; but, in order more profoundly to initiate him in the art, he was afterwards placed as a pupil under the ce... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-050103-5722 | MORISON, Robert, physician and professor of botany at Oxford, was born at Aberdeen in 1620. "He was bred at the university of that place, where he taught philosophy for some time; but having a strong inclination to botany, he made great progress in that science. The civil wars obliged him to leave his country, but he d... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-050104-5722 | MORITZ, St, a small town of the canton of the Grisons, in Switzerland, in the Upper Engadin, where there are celebrated mineral springs of similar efficacy to those of Spa, Pyrmont, and Schwaíbach, though less visited by invalids, from the insufficiency of the means of accommodation. It is situated 6060 feet above the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-050105-5722 | MORLACHIA, a mountainous country of Dalmatia. The inhabitants, who are called Morlacks or Morlaccìà, inhabit the pleasant valleys of Koter, along the rivers Kerha, Cettina, Narenta, and amongst the inland mountains of Dalmatia. They are by some said to be of Walachian extraction, as is indicated by their name, Morlachi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-050106-5722 | MORLAIX, an arrondissement of the department of Finisterre, in France, extending over 605 square miles. It is divided into ten cantons and fifty-eight communes, [7:15:502]and contains 120,000 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, situated at the junction of the Jaclot and Offen, which form a haven, wit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-050201-5735 | MORNAY, Philippe de, Seigneur Duplessis Marly, was born at Buhy or Bishuy, in Upper Normandy, in France, in 1549, and was educated at Paris. He made a rapid progress in the belles lettres, in the learned languages, and in theology, which was then thought a prodigy in a gentleman. At first he was destined for the church... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-050202-5735 | MORNING, the beginning of the day, or the time of the sun rising. The astronomers reckon morning, mαηe, from the time of midnight to that of mid-day.
Morning Star, the planet Venus when a little to the westward of the sun; that is, when she rises a little before him. In this situation she is called by the Greeks Phosp... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-050203-5735 | MORNINGTON ISLE, one of the group of islands which Captain Flinders calls Wellesley’s Islands. It is situated on the north coast of New Holland, at the head of the Gulf of Carpentaria. It is thirty-five miles long and ninety in circumference; and is inhabited, though nothing is known of the natives. Long, of Cape Van D... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-050204-5735 | MOROCCO.
Morocco, or Marocco, a large empire in the northwest part of Africa, is a remnant of the great African monarchies which owed their origin to the Saracens, and the most extensive and important of the Barbary States. It is bounded on the north and west by the Mediterranean and the Atlantic respectively, on the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-051201-5865 | MORPETH, a town in the county of Northumberland, in the western division of the ward of its own name, 292 miles from London, situatedon the banks of the river Wens-bech, in the course of the great road from London to Edinburgh. The town can boast of remote antiquity, and is well built, consisting chiefly of two wide st... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-051202-5865 | MORPHEUS, in fabulous history, the god of sleep, or, according to others, one of the ministers of Somnus. He caused drowsiness, and represented the forms of dreams.
Ovid styles him the kindest of the deities; and he is usually described in a recumbent posture, crowned with poppies. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-051203-5865 | MORRHINA or Murrhina Vasa, were a sort of cupsor vases made use of by the ancients. Authors are not agreed as to the substance of which they were made. Some say they were of stone; others assert that they were made of a fluid condensed by being buried under ground. All that we know concerning the matter is, that this k... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-051204-5865 | MORRISE-Dances. See Moresque-Dances. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-051205-5865 | MORS, Death, one of the infernal deities, born of Night without a father, and worshipped by the ancients with great solemnity. Death was not represented as an actually existing power, but as an imaginary being; and Euripides, in one of his tragedies, introduces this deity upon the stage. The moderns represent death as ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-051206-5865 | MORSHANST, a circleof the Russian province of Tambow, extending from east longitude 4L 17. to 43. 27., and from north latitude 53. 14. to 53. 55.; containing 1958 square miles, with 104,870 inhabitants. The soil is good, and produces a surplus of corn and cattle, and a sufficiency of wood. The capital is the city of th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-051207-5865 | MORTAGNE, an arrondissement of the department of the Orne, in France, extending over 806 square miles, and containing a population of 122,000 persons. It is divided into eleven cantons, and these again into 171 communes. The capital is the city of the same name, situated on a hill, at the base of which flows the river ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-051208-5865 | MORTAIN, an arrondissement in the department of La Manche, in.France, extending over 357 square miles, and containing a population of 74,300 persons. It is divided into eight cantons, and these into seventy-three communes. The capital is the town of the same name, situated on the river Cance, between two steep rocks. T... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-051301-5878 | MORTALITY, HUMAN.
We shall consider this very important, as well as curious subject, under two distinct heads; the first of which will treat of the History and Formation of Bills of Mortality; the second, of the Law of Mortality.
I. MORTALITY, BILLS OF.
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kp-eb0715-056201-6515 | MORTAR, a preparation of lime and sand mixed with water, which serves as a cement, and is used by masons and bricklayers in building walls of stone and brick.
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kp-eb0715-056202-6515 | MORTARA, a province of the duchy of Piedmont, in the continental dominions of Sardinia. It extends over 378 square miles, and comprehends one city, eighty-four towns and villages, and 56,840 inhabitants. It was formerly a part of Milan, and then was denominated Lumel-lina. It is a level district, watered by the Po, the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-056203-6515 | MORTIER, an ensign of dignity, which was borne by the chancellor and grand presidents of the parliament of France. That borne by the chancellor consisted of a piece of cloth of gold, edged and turned up with ermine; that borne by the first president was a piece of black velvet edged with a double row of gold lace. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-056204-6515 | MORTISE, or Mortoise, in carpentery, &c. a kind of joint wherein a hole of a certain depth is made in a piece of timber, which is intended to receive another piece called a tenon. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-056205-6515 | MORTLAKE, a parish of the county of Surrey, in the hundred of Brixton, seven miles from London. It is beautifully situated on the south bank of the Thames, and includes several splendid houses, and a part of the royal park of Richmond., The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 1748, in 1811 to 2021, in 1821 to 2484, and in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-056301-6528 | MORTMAIN, or Alienation in Mortmain (in mortua manu), is an alienation of lands or tenements to any corporation, sole or aggregate, ecclesiastical or temporal. But these purchases having been chiefly made by religious houses, in consequence of which the lands became perpetually inherent in one dead hand, this occasione... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-056401-6541 | MORTON HAMPSTEAD, a town of the county of Devon, in the hundred of Teignbridge, 184 miles from London. It. stands in a picturesque situation at the foot of Dartmoor Hills. It is an ancient corporate town, and has a market on Saturday, with some natural curiosities worthy of observation, especially by the geologist. The... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-056402-6541 | MORUNG, a district of Northern Hindustan, tributary to the rajah of Nepaul, situated about the 27th degree of north latitude, and bounded on the south by Bengal. It is a mountainous country, being in some parts 7000 feet higher than Bengal; and it produces very fine timber, but is yet imperfectly explored. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-056403-6541 | MORWARA, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, governed by a Rajpoot chief. The surrounding country is frequently plundered by the Coolies. It is thirty miles south-south-west from Theraud. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-056404-6541 | MOS, a bailiwick of the province of Aggerhuus, in Norway, containing 19,800 inhabitants. The chief town, of the same name, is situated on the Bay of Christiania, and contains 400 houses, with 1408 inhabitants, who make much bar, rod, and cast iron. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-056405-6541 | MOSAIC LAW, the code of laws delivered to the Israelites by Moses. This is the most remarkable system of jurisprudence ever given to the world, as well as the most ancient of which we have any distinct record. It was delivered, not to a settled nation, but to a people on their way to a settlement at that time inhabited... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-056801-6593 | MOSALSK, a circle of the Russian province of Kaluga, extending in east longitude from 36. 13. to 37. 3., and in north latitude from 53. 58. to 54. 48. The soil is generally poor; and though the circle comprehends 2310 square miles, the inhabitants are only 170,500. It contains several lakes, some of them extensive. The... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-056802-6593 | MOSCHUS, a Grecian poet of antiquity, usually coupled with Bion, and both of them contemporaries with Theocritus. In later times, all the ancient idyllia were collected and attributed to Theocritus; but the claims of Moschus and Bion to some few little pieces have been admitted, and this is sufficient to make us inquis... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-056803-6593 | MOSCOW, a city of European Russia, the capital of the circle and of the government of that name, and one of the two capitals of the vast Russian empire. It was long the only capital, and is still the place where the splendid ceremony of the coronation of each emperor is performed. It was first founded by Prince George ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-056901-6606 | MOSELLE, a department in the north-east of France, formed out of the district of Messin, of French Luxembourg, and of a part of German Lorraine. It extends in east longitude from 5. 20. to 7. 45., and in north latitude from 48. 55. to 49. 30. It is bounded on the north by the department of the Lower Rhine and the duchy... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-057001-6619 | MOSES, the son of Amram and Jochebed, was born in the year 1571 before Christ. Pharaoh king of Egypt, perceiving that the Hebrews had become a formidable nation, issued an edict commanding all the male children to be put to death. To avoid this cruel decree, Jochebed, the mother of Moses, having concealed her son for t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-057101-6632 | MOSHAISK, a circle of the province of Moscow, in Russia, extending over 630 square miles, and comprehending one city, one market-town, and 264 villages, with 56,530 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, situated on the Moshaiska. It is fortified, and has a strong citadel. It was burned down on the retr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 55 40' N 27 50' E | MOSHAISK |
kp-eb0715-057102-6632 | MOSHEIM, John Laurence, an illustrious German divine, was born in 1695. He was descended of a noble family, which might seem to open to his ambition a fair path to civil promotion; but his zeal for the interests of religion, his thirst of knowledge, and particularly his taste for sacred literature, induced him to conse... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-057103-6632 | MOSQUE, a temple or placcof religious worship amongst the Mahommedans. All mosques are square buildings, generally constructed of stone. Before the chief gate there is a square court paved with white marble, and low galleries round it, the roof of which is supported by marble pillars. In these galleries the Turks wash ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-057201-6645 | MOSQUITO Shore. See the articles Guatemala and Honduras. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-057202-6645 | MOSS, a name given to swampy ground, which is otherwise called a fen or bog.
In many of these grounds, as well in England and Ireland as in other parts of the world, there are found vast numbers of trees with their stumps erect, and their roots piercing the ground in a natural posture, as when growing. Many of these t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-057301-6658 | MOSTRA, in the Italian music, a mark at the end of a line or space, to show that the first note of the next line is in that place. If this note be accompanied with a sharp or flat, it is proper to place these characters along with the mostra. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-057302-6658 | MOSUL, a large city of Asiatic Turkey, which, although lying almost in the very heart of the pachalik of Bagdad, forms of itself, with a small territory, not extending more than two miles on each side of the town, an independent government, under the order of a pasha of two tails. It is situated on the western bank of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-057303-6658 | MOTAPA (sometimes called Moxomotapa, but improperly, as Mono is here a general name for kingdom), is dignified in the early narratives with the title of empire. Accounts disagree so much regarding the limits which ought to be assigned to Motapa, that it is impossible to derive from them a consistent result. It is uncer... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-057304-6658 | MOTION is now generally considered as incapable of definition, being merely a simple ideaor notion received by the senses. The ancients, however, thought differently. Some of them defined it to be a passage out of one state into another, which conveys no idea to him who is ignorant of the nature of motion. The Peripate... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058101-6762 | MOTIR, an island in the Eastern Seas, of a triangular form, about twenty-four miles south from Ternate. Long. 127. 19. E. Lat. 0. 26. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058102-6762 | MOTIVE is sometimes applied to that faculty of the human mind by which we voluntarily pursue good and avoid evil. Thus Hobbes distinguishes the faculties of the mind into two sorts, the cognitive and motive. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058103-6762 | MOTOUALIS, a small nation of Syria, living to the east of the country of the Druses, in the valley which separates their mountains from those of Damascus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058104-6762 | MOTTO, in armoury, a short sentence or phrase carried in a scroll, generally under, but sometimes over, the arms, sometimes alluding to the bearing, sometimes to the name of the bearer, and sometimes containing whatever pleases the fancy of the deviser. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058105-6762 | MOVEABLE, in general, denotes any thing capable of being moved. Moveable feasts are such as are not always held on the same day of the year or month, though they be on the same day of the week. Thus Easter is a moveable feast, being always held on the Sunday which falls upon or next after the first full moon following ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058106-6762 | MOUFET, Thomas, a celebrated English physician, was born at London, and practised medicine with great reputation. Towards the close of his life he retired to the country, and died about the year 1600. This physician is known by a work which was begun by Edward Wotton, and printed at London in 1634, folio, under the tit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058107-6762 | MOUJGUR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Ajmeer. It is surrounded with a high wall and towers, and has a conspicuous mosque, which stands over the gateway, and a tomb with a cupola ornamented with painted tiles. Its situation is in the middle of the desert of Bicaneer; but it has several good wells, and reservo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058108-6762 | MOULD, or Mold, in the mechanical arts, is a cavity artificially cut, with a design to give its form or impression to some softer matter applied therein. Moulds are implements of great use in sculpture, foundery, and other arts. The workmen employed in melting the mineral or metallic ore dug out of mines have their sev... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058201-6775 | MOULDING, any thing cast in a mould, or which seems to have been so, although in reality it were cut with a chisel or the axe.
Mouldings, in Architecture, projections beyond the naked wall, column, or wainscot, the assemblage of which forms cornices, door-cases, and other decorations of architecture. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058202-6775 | MOULINET is used, in Mechanics, to signify a roller, which being crossed with two levers, is usually applied to cranes, capstans, and other sorts of engines, to draw ropes, heave up stones, and the like.
Moulinet is also a kind of turnstile or wooden cross, which turns horizontally upon a stake fixed in the ground. It... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058203-6775 | MOULINS, an arrondissement in the department of the Allier, in France, 932 square miles in extent. It is divided into nine cantons and ninety-four communes, and contains a population of 82,300 persons. The capital is the city of that name, situated on the left bank of the Allier, over which there is a fine stone bridge... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058204-6775 | MOULTING, or Molting, the falling off or change of hair, feathers, skins, horns, or other parts of animals, happening in some annually, and in others only at certain stages of life. The generality of animals moult in the spring. The moulting of a hawk is called mewing. The moulting of a deer is the shedding of his horn... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058205-6775 | MOUND, a term used for a bank, rampart, or other fence, particularly that of earth.
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Mound, in Heraldry, a ball or globe with a cross upon it, such as our kings are usually drawn with, holding it in their left hand, as they do the sceptre in the right. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058301-6788 | MOUNT EDGECUMBE, a prodigiously high peak, at the entrance of Cook’s Strait, in New Zealand, on the west side. Its height is supposed not to be much inferior to that of the Peak of Teneriffe.
Mount Sorrel, a town of the county of Leicester, in the hundred of West Goscote, 105 miles from London, on the great north-west... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058302-6788 | MOUNTAIN, a considerable eminence of land, elevated above the surrounding country. It is commonly full of inequalities, cavities more or less exposed, and strata uncovered.
The Attraction of Mountains is a comparatively recent discovery, and affords a very considerable confirmation of Sir Isaac Newton’s theory of univ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058401-6801 | MOURNING, a particular dress or habit worn to signify grief upon some melancholy occasion, particularly the death of friends or of great public characters. The modes of mourning are various in different countries, as are also the colours used for that purpose. In Europe, the ordinary colour for mourning is black; in Ch... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058501-6814 | MOURZOUK, the capital of Fezzan, see that article. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058502-6814 | MOUSSYRE, one of the Kurile Islands, resorted to by the Russians for sea-birds and aquatic animals. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058503-6814 | MOUZILLON, a town of France, in the department of the Lower Loire, and arrondissement of Nantes. It is situated on the river Gaugueise, and, including the parish, contains 3100 inhabitants, who chiefly cultivate the vine, and produce the best wine of the department. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058504-6814 | MOW is the name of several towns in Hindustan, the principal of which is in the province of Agra, and district ofFurukabad. Long. 79. 18. E. Lat. 27. 34. N. This is also the name of a town in the district of Allahabad, fifty-three miles north-east from Benares; and of another seventy-six miles from Benares. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058505-6814 | MOXA, or Mugwort of China, is a soft lanuginous substance, prepared in Japan from the young leaves of a species of artemisia, by beating them together when thoroughly dried, and rubbing them between the hands till only the fine fibres are left. The down upon the leaves of mullein, cotton, hemp, &c. answers the same pur... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058506-6814 | MOZAMBIQUE, or Mos ambique, a portion of the east ern coast of Africa, of which the limits are not very well defined, and about which little is known. It is sometimes called a kingdom, and was doubtless once entitled to that designation; but it is now a Portuguese colony. It takes its name from the capital, which is bu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058507-6814 | MOZART, John Chrysostom-Wolfgang-Theophilus, the illustrious musical composer, was born at Salzburg, on the 27th of January 1756. He was the son of Leopold Mozart, a musician in the employment of the Prince-archbishop of Salzburg, and Anna Maria Perth Both parents were noted for their uncommon beauty. Mozart was scarce... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058801-6853 | MOZGURRAH, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Moultan, sixty-five miles south-east from the town of Moultan. Long. 71. 51. E. Lat. 29. 48. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058802-6853 | MUCHOO River, the largest river in the Gujerat peninsula, having its source in Sirdar, a few miles from Wankaneer, which it passes, and afterwards empties itself, by many mouths, into the Run. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058803-6853 | MUCILAGE, in Pharmacy, is in general any viscid or glutinous liquor.
Mucilage also means the liquorwhich principally serves to moisten the ligaments and cartilages of the articulations, and is supplied by the mucilaginous glands. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058804-6853 | MUCKEALAH, a town of Hindustan, and province of Lahore, belonging to the Sikhs. The neighbourhood is noted for the abundance of fossil salt. It is eighty-three miles north-west from the city of Lahore. Long. 72. 43. E. Lat. 32. 33. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058805-6853 | MUCKONDABAD, a town of Hindustan, possessed by some independent chiefs, in the province of Gundwana, and twenty-five miles south from Reerah. Long. 81. 24. E. Lat. 24. 15. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 24 15' N 81 24' E | MUCKONDABAD |
kp-eb0715-058806-6853 | MUCKUD, a town of Hindustan, belonging to the Af ghans, in the province of Lahore, on the Indus. Long. 70. 51. E. Lat. 32. 22. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058807-6853 | MUCKUNDNAUTH, a town of Northern Hindustan, district of Lamjungh, and tributary to the Ghoorkali rajah of Nepaul. Long. 93. 50. E. Lat. 29. 38. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058808-6853 | MUCKUNDRA, a village of Hindustan, in the province of Malwah, thirty miles south-south-east from Kotah, being situated in a circular valley at Chundkairy. Fourteen miles from this place is held one of the largest fairs in Hindustan. Long. 76. 12. E. Lat. 24. 48. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058809-6853 | MUCUS, a mucilaginous liquor, secreted by certain glands, and serving to lubricate many of the internal cavities of the body. In its natural state it is generally limpid and colourless; but, from certain causes, it assumes a thick consistence and a whitish colour like pus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058810-6853 | MUDDIE, a fortified town of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, situated near the morass called the Run. The surrounding country is much infested with robbers. Long. 69. 22. E. Lat. 22. 5. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 22 5' N 69 22' E | MUDDIE |
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