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kp-eb0715-058811-6853 | MUELLER, Johannes von, the only author whom Germany can oppose to the illustrious historians of Italy and Britain, was born at Schaffhausen in 1752, of which town his father was a pastor. In 1769, he commenced his academical life at Göttingen, where he applied himself principally to theology; a study and a profession w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058901-6866 | MUFFLE, in Chemistry, a vessel employed in some metallurgic operations. In figure it represents an oblong arch or vault, the hinder part of which is closed by a semicircular plane, whilst the lower part or floor is a rectangular plane. It is a little oven, which is placed horizontally in assay and enamelling furnaces, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058902-6866 | MUFTI, the chief of the ecclesiastical order, or primate of the Mussulman religion. The authority of the mufti is very great in the Ottoman empire; for even the sultan himself, if he would preserve any appearance of religion, cannot, without hearing his opinion, put any person to death, or so much as inflict any corpor... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-058903-6866 | MUGANAYANA, a town of the south of India, in the province of Mysore. It contains about 200 houses, and is fortified with a mud wall. Long. 76. 58. E. Lat. 13. 8. N.
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... | 13 8' N 76 58' E | MUGANAYANA |
kp-eb0715-059001-6879 | MUGGLETONIANS, a religious sect which arose in England about the year 1657, and were so denominated from their leader Lodowick Muggleton, a journeyman tailor, who, with his associate Reeves, set up for great prophets, pretending, as it is said, to have an absolute power of saving and damning whomsoever they pleased; an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059002-6879 | MUGLITZ, a city of the circle of Olmutz, in the Austrian province of Moravia. It stands on the river March, is surrounded with walls, and is the see of an archbishop, whose cathedral is there. It contains 368 houses, and 3013 inhabitants, some of whom are occupied in woollen manufactures. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059003-6879 | MUGLEE, a town of Hindustan, in the Eastern Ghauts, ninety-five miles west from Madras. Long. 79. 5. E. Lat. 13. 10. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 13 10' N 79 5' E | MUGLEE |
kp-eb0715-059004-6879 | MUHLHAUSEN, a city of France, in the department of the Upper Rhine, and the arrondissement of Aldkirch. It stands on an island formed by the river Ill, which empties itself into the Rhine. It is the most considerable manufacturing place of the industrious department in which it stands, and is situated in a district of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 47 50' N 7 22' E | MUHLHAUSEN |
kp-eb0715-059005-6879 | MULATTO, a name given in the Indies to those who are begotten by a negro man on an Indian or white woman, or by an Indian or white man on a negro woman. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059006-6879 | MULCT, a fine of money laid upon a man who has committed some fault or misdemeanour. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059007-6879 | MULE, a mongrel kind of quadruped, usually generated between an ass and a mare, and sometimes between a horse and a she-ass; but the signification of the word is commonly extended to every kind of animal produced by a mixture of two different species.
Mules, amongst gardeners, denote a sort of vegetable monsters produ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059008-6879 | MULHARA, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Allahabad, five miles north-north-east from Chatterpoor. Long. 79. 55. E. Lat. 25. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059009-6879 | MULHAUSEN, a city of Prussia, in the government of Erfurt, the capital of the circle of the same name. It stands on the rivers Unstruth and Schwemotte, is surrounded with walls, and is divided into the upper and lower city, which, with the suburbs, contains 1672 houses, and 10,450 inhabitants. It has manufactories for ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 51 12' 59" N 10 23' 25" E | MULHAUSEN |
kp-eb0715-059010-6879 | MULHEIM, a town of the Prussian government of Cologne, the capital of a circle of the same name. It has a church for each of the three religions, and a synagogue for the Jews, and contains 523 houses, and 3950 inhabitants. There is here a considerable manufactory of silksand velvets, and a good deal of traffic on the R... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059011-6879 | MULIER, in Law, signifies the lawful issue born in wedlock, though begotten before. The mulier is preferred to an older brother born out of matrimony; as, for instance, if a man has a son by a woman before marriage, which issue is a bastard, and afterwards marries the mother of the bastard, and they have another son, t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059012-6879 | MULL, an island of the Hebrides, the third in size, belonging to Argyleshire, and separated from the mainland by the narrow gut of sea called the Sound of Mull. It is situated in longitude 5. 18. west, and latitude 56. 27. north. Its figure is very irregular, being deeply indented by arms of the sea. Its extreme length... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059101-6892 | MULLAHPORE, a town of Hindustan, in the nabob of Oude’s territories, situated on the south-west side of the Goggrah River. Long. 81. 16. E. Lat. 27. 40. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 27 40' N 81 16' E | MULLAHPORE |
kp-eb0715-059102-6892 | MULLENBACH, a city of Hungary, in the province of the Siebenbergen, in the part distinguished as the land of the Saxons. It is the capital of a circle extending over 116 square miles, with a population of about 22,000 persons. It stands on a river of the same name, is surrounded with walls, and has two extensive suburb... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 45 57' 48" N 22 30' 15" E | MULLENBACH |
kp-eb0715-059103-6892 | MULLER, or Regiomontanus, John, a celebrated astronomer of the fifteenth century, was born at Konings-hoven, in Franconia, in 1,436, and acquired great reputation by publishing an abridgment of Ptolemy’s Almagest, which had been commenced by Purbach. He went to Rome to perfect himself in the Greek tongue, and to visit ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059104-6892 | MULLINGAR, the county town of Westmeath, in the province of Leinster, in Ireland, is forty-eight miles from Dublin. Long. 7, 19. W. Lat. 53. 32. N. It is situated on the river Hoyle, and the Royal Canal passes by the town. It holds fairs four times a year, in which a considerable trade is carried on in cattle. The livi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059105-6892 | MULTAPPY, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Berar, sixty miles N. N. E. from Ellichpoor. Long. 78. 28. E. Lat. 22. 19. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 22 19' N 78 28' E | MULTAPPY |
kp-eb0715-059106-6892 | MULTIPLEMULITPLE, in Arithmetic, a number which comprehends some other several times. Thus 6 is a multiple of 2, and 12 is a multiple of 6, 4, and 3, comprehending the first twice, the second thrice, and the third four times. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059107-6892 | MULTIPLICAND, the number to be multiplied by another. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059108-6892 | MULTIPLICATION, in general, the act of increasing the number of any thing.
Multiplication is a rule by which any given number may be increased, according to any number of times proposed. See Arithmetic. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059109-6892 | MULTIPLICATOR, or Multiplier, in Arithmetic, the number by which any other is multiplied, or the number of times it is supposed to be taken. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059110-6892 | MUM, a kind of malt liquor much drunk in Germany. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059111-6892 | MUMMIUS, Lucius, a Roman consul sent against the Achaeans, whom he conquered in the year 147 before Christ. He destroyed Corinth, Thebes, and Chalcis, by order of the senate, and obtained the surname of Achaieus, from his victories. He did not enrich himself with the spoils of the enemy, but returned home without any i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059112-6892 | MUMMY, a body embalmed, or dried and preserved in the manner used by the ancient Egyptians. There are two kinds of bodies denominated mummies. The first are only carcasses dried by the heat of the sun, and by that means preserved from putrefaction. Some imagine that these are the bodies of deceased people buried in the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059113-6892 | MUNDEN, a city of the province of Göttingen, in the kingdom of Hanover. It is situated at the junction of the rivers Fulda and Werra, which together form the Weser. It is in a most picturesque spot, and has an ancient castle and three churches, but no walls. The inhabitants are about 5000, and have considerable trade b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059114-6892 | MUNDATTAFAL, a town of Hindustan, in the Mahratta territories, in the province of Khandesh, being situated on a small island formed by the Nerbuddah, sixty-five [7:15:592]miles south-south-east from Oojain. Long. 76. 17. E. Lat. 22. 25. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059201-6905 | MUNDINGOES, or Mandingoes. See Mandingo. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059202-6905 | MUNDIUM, a village of Hindustan, in the territory of Mysore, fortified with a mud wall. Long. 77. 4. E. Lat. 12. 31. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 12 31' N 77 4' E | MUNDIUM |
kp-eb0715-059203-6905 | MUNGULHAUT, a large manufacturing town of Hindustan, in the province of Bengal, and district of Rungpoor, twenty miles north of Rungpoor. Long. 89. 20. E. Lat. 25. 59. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059204-6905 | MUNGULORE, a town of Afghanistan, in the province of Cabul, and formerly the capital of a district now decayed. Long. 71. 15. E. Lat. 34. 13. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 34 13' N 71 15' E | MUNGULORE |
kp-eb0715-059205-6905 | MUNGULWARA, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bejapore. It is fortified with a stone wall, has a good market, and is sixteen miles south-east from Panderpoor. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059206-6905 | MUNDUS Patens, the open world, in Roman antiquity, a solemnity performed in a small temple, of a round form like the world, dedicated to Dis or Pluto and the rest of the infernal gods. This temple was opened but three times in the year, viz. on the 24th of August, the 4th of October, and the 7th of November. During the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059207-6905 | MUNICH, a city, the capital of the kingdom of Bavaria, as well as of the circle of the Iser, in which, on the banks of the river of that name, it is situated. It is in longitude 12. 28. 25. east, and in latitude 48. 8. 20. north. It is situated on a plain nearly surrounded by the river, and is enclosed with walls, alth... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059208-6905 | MUNICIPAL, in the Roman civil law, an epithet which signifies being invested with the rights and privileges of Roman citizens. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059209-6905 | MUNICIPES, an appellation given by the Romans to the inhabitants of the municipia or enfranchised cities. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059210-6905 | MUNICIPIUM, in Roman antiquity, a corporation borough, or enfranchised city or town, where the inhabitants enjoyed their own laws and customs, and at the same time were honoured with the privileges of Roman citizens. But this privilege generally extended no farther than the bare title. Some indeed, by particular merit,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059211-6905 | MUNITION, the provisions with which a place is furnished for defence, or that which follows a camp for its subsistence.
Munition Ships are those which have stores on board in order to supply a fleet of men-of-war at sea. In an engagement, all the munition ships and victuallers attending the fleet take their station in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059212-6905 | MUNKACS, a market-town of the circle of Unghvar, in the province of Hither Theiss, in Hungary. It stands on the river Latorcza, and contains a Catholic, a Calvinist, and a Unitarian church, with 730 houses, and 5008 inhabitants, who refine much common salt and saltpetre. Near to it is a celebrated fortress. Long. 22. 1... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059213-6905 | MUNNIPORE, a town of the Burman empire, and capital of the province of Cassay. It was formerly a Hindu state, but was conquered by the Burmans in 1774, and has since that period continued tributary to them. Long. 94. 30. E. Lat. 24. 20. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059214-6905 | MUNSTER, the most southern of the four provinces of Ireland, is bounded on the north by Connaught, on the east by Leinster, and on the south and west by the Atlantic Ocean. It measures 150 miles in its greatest length, from Brow-Head, the most southern point of Ireland, to Meelick, the northern extremity of Tipperary, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059401-6931 | MUNYCHIO, an anniversary solemnity observed at Athens, in honour of Diana, on the 16th of the month Munychion. Cakes were offered on the occasion, called αμ<p ∣ φωντες. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059402-6931 | MUNYCHION, the tenth month of the Athenian year, containing twenty-nine days, and answering to the latter part of our March and the beginning of April. It was so called from the festival Munychia, which was observed in this month. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059403-6931 | MURAL, something belonging to a wall, which the Latins call murus. Mural Arch, is a wall, or walled arch, placed exactly in the plane of the meridian, that is, upon the meridian line, for the fixing of a large quadrant, sextant, or other instrument, to observe the meridian altitudes, &c. of the heavenly bodies. Tycho B... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059404-6931 | MURANO, a town of the province Calabria Citeriore, in the kingdom of Naples, on the river Coscile. It is an ill-built place, containing 4200 inhabitants, who make silk goods, and grow some excellent wine.
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kp-eb0715-059405-6931 | MURAT, Joachim, one of the lieutenants of Napoleon, was born on the 25th of March 1771, at La Bastide, near Cahors, where his father was an innkeeper. Being sent to school at Toulouse, he there acquired some slight degree of elementary instruction; but his taste for dissipation and adventure soon drew him away from his... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059601-6957 | MURATORI, Louis Antony, a learned Italian scholar and antiquary, was born at Vignola, in the duchy of Modena, on the 21st of October 1672. He received his elementary education at the college of Modena, where he signalized himself by his application, and the rapidity of his progress in the ancient languages and in liter... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059701-6970 | MURCIA, one of the provinces into which Spain is divided, and usually, on account of its ancient independence, denominated a kingdom. Its extent is 659 square leagues, and its population, at the census in 1804, amounted to 383,226 souls. It is bounded on the north by Valencia, on the east by the Mediterranean Sea, on t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059702-6970 | MURDER, or Murtiier, the act of killing another with violence and injustice. The word comes from the Saxon morth, death, or, according to some persons, a violent death; and hence the barbarous Latin murdrum and modrum. Murderers, or Murdering Pieces, in a ship, are certain small pieces of ordnance, either of brass or i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059703-6970 | MURENGERS, two officers of great antiquity in the city of Chester, annually chosen from the aldermen, to see the walls kept in repair, and to receive a certain toll for the purpose. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059704-6970 | MURET, an arrondissement in the department of the Upper Garonne, in France, and 618 square miles in extent. It comprises nine cantons, divided into 130 communes, and peopled by 77,500 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name on the left bank of the Garonne. It contains 3200 inhabitants, who carry on the tr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059705-6970 | MURGHAUB, a village of Persia, in the province of Irak, on the road from Shiraz to Yezdikhast. Near it is a remarkable pillar called Tuckt Soliman, apparently of as great antiquity as the city of Persepolis. Fraser mentions, that the fort of Murghaub, a place of little strength, and surrounded by hills, is the chief vi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059706-6970 | MURICHOM, a village of Northern Hindustan, consisting of only twenty-four houses, which are of a superior structure to any in the country, and several stories in height. Long. 89. 28. E. Lat. 27. 6. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059707-6970 | MURKUTCHOE, a town~of Hindustan, in the province[7:15:598] of Bahar, ninety miles south by east from Patna. Long. 85. 45. E. Lat. 24. 23. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059801-6983 | MURO, a city, the seat of a bishop, in the province of Basilicata, in the kingdom of Naples. It contains a castle, a cathedral, four parochial and three conventual churches, and 5100 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059802-6983 | MUROM, a circle of the Russian province of Wladimir, extending from 41. 25. to 42. 33. east longitude, and from 55. 15. to 56. 10. north latitude. The chief place is the city of the same name, 640 miles from St Petersburg, on the river Muromka. It is an ancient city, formerly the residence of the Russian princes, and a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-059803-6983 | MURRAY, Alexander, a distinguished orientalist, was born at a place called Dunkitterick, in the county of Galloway, on the 22d of October 1775. His father, Robert Murray, had been a shepherd all his days, and his mother, Mary Cochrane, was the daughter of a person in the same humble condition of life. From the circumst... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-060101-7022 | MURRAY. See Morayshire. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-060102-7022 | MURRAY’S Islands, three small islands in the Eastern Seas, in Torres Straits, between the coast of New Guinea and New Holland. Long, of the largest 144. 2. E. Lat. 9. 54. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-060103-7022 | MURRHINE, Murrhinus, Moppwos, in Antiquity, an appellation given to a delicate sort of ware brought from the East, of which were made cups and vases, that added not a little to the splendour of the Roman banquets. Critics are , divided concerning the matter of the pocula or rather rasa murrhina, murrina, or murrea. Cer... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-060201-7035 | MURTEN, usually by the French called Morat, is a city of Switzerland, in the canton of Friburg, situated on a lake of the same name, in a very fertile district. It contains 1500 inhabitants, who, from their position on the great road between Basil and Berne, have a little trade. It is celebrated for the defeat of the a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-060202-7035 | MURVIEDRO, a celebrated town of Spain, in the province of Valencia. It is at the foot of a mountain of black marble, on the ruins of the famous city of Saguntum, whose ancient theatre still exists and attests its former grandeur. It is an exact semicircle, about two hundred and fifty feet in diameter; the inner diamete... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-060203-7035 | MUSA, or Moosa, a village of Arabia, in the province of Yemen, about twenty miles to the east of Mocha. It is surrounded with walls, and is still populous, though the trade is now transferred to Mocha. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-060204-7035 | MUSAEUS, an ancient Greek poet, was, according to Plato and Diodorus Siculus, an Athenian, the son of Orpheus, and chief of the Eleusinian mysteries instituted at Athens in honour of Ceres. According to others, he was only the disciple of Orpheus, though, from the great resemblance between his character and talents and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-060205-7035 | MUSCULUS, a military machine, made use of by the Romans to cover and protect the soldiers whilst they approached and undermined the walls of besieged places, or filled the ditches. It seems to have resembled the testudo in form, but to have been smaller in size. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-060206-7035 | MUSEIA were Grecian festivals in honour of the Muses, celebrated with games every fifth year, particularly by the Thespians. The Macedonians also observed a festival of the same name in honour of Jupiter and the Muses. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-060207-7035 | MUSES, certain fabulous deities amongst the Pagans, who were supposed to preside over the arts and sciences. The Muses were originally mere singers and musicians in the service of Osiris, or the great Egyptian Bacchus, under the instruction and guidance of his son Horus; but in succeeding times they were denominated th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-060301-7048 | MUSEUM, a name that originally signified a part of the palace of Alexandria, which occupied at least one fourth of the city. This quarter was called the Museum, on account of its being set apart for the worship of the Muses and the study of the sciences. Here were lodged and entertained the men of learning, who were di... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-060302-7048 | MUSHED, or Mesched, a city of Persia, the capital of the province of Khorassan, surrounded by a wall, and said by some to be twelve miles in circuit, but by Fraser estimated at not more than six miles. The greatest length to which the town extends is not above two miles, and the enclosed space presents a sad picture of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-060401-7061 | MUSIC.
Within the limits necessarily prescribed to this article, it is impossible to do more than touch upon a few points belonging to the subject. A complete treatise upon the theory and practice of music, according to the received doctrines, would contain about six thousand articles, and would fill several volumes. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-064701-7620 | MUSIMON, in Natural History, the name of an animal, esteemed a species of sheep, and described by the ancients as common in Corsica, Sardinia, Barbary, and the northeastern parts of Asia. It has been doubted whether the animal described under this name is now anywhere to be found in the world, and whether it was not pr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-064702-7620 | MUSK, a very strong-scented substance, found in a bag under the belly of a species of moschus. See Mammalia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-064703-7620 | MUSKAU, a town of Prussian Silesia, in the government of Liegnitz. It is the capital of a mediatized principality, and the residence of the prince. It is a neat town, built since 1766, and contains two churches, 200 houses, and 1550 inhabitants. The principality consists of forty-six villages and 8500 people. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-064704-7620 | MUSKET, or Musquet, properly a fire-arm bome on the shoulder, used in war, and discharged by the application of a lighted match. Muskets were anciently borne in the field by the infantry, and were used in England so lately as the beginning of the civil wars. They are not now used; fusees or firelocks having taken their... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-064705-7620 | MUSKETOON, a kind of short, thick musket, the bore of which is the thirty-eighth part of its length; it carries five ounces of iron, or seven and a half of lead, with an equal quantity of powder. This is the shortest kind of blunderbusses. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-064706-7620 | MUSLIN, a fine sort of cotton cloth, which bears a downy knot on its surface. See Cotton and Manufacture. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-064707-7620 | MUSSCHENBROEK, Peter Van, an eminent mathematician and natural philosopher, was born at Leyden on the 14th of March 1692. Having studied languages under Perizonius and Gronovius, he applied himself to philosophy, chemistry, and medicine under Senguerd, Bidloo, Le Clerc, Burmann, Albinus, Boerhaave, and Rau, and proved ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-064708-7620 | MUSSELBURGH, a royal burgh, barony of regality, and sea-port town, of Scotland, in the county of Edinburgh, distant six miles south-east from Edinburgh. It is the capital of the parish of Inveresk, and is situated at the mouth of the river Esk, which divides it into two portions; that part on the right side being prope... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-064801-7633 | MUSSOMELI, a city in the island of Sicily, in the kingdom of Naples, and province of Mazzara, fifty miles from Palermo. It stands on the side of a large inland mountain; and the inhabitants, who are 9276, depend chiefly on the cultivation of the surrounding soil. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-064802-7633 | MUSSULMAN, or Moslemin, a title by which the Mahommedans distinguish themselves, and which signifies, in the Turkish language, true believer, or orthodox. In Arabic the word is written Moslem, Moslemin, or Mosulman. The appellation was first given to the Saracens, as is observed by Leunclavius. There are two kinds of M... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-064803-7633 | MUST, Mustum, sweet wine newly expressed from the grape, or the new liquor expressed from the fruit before it is fermented. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-064804-7633 | MUSTER, in a military sense, a review of troops under arms, to ascertain if they be complete and in good order; to take an account of their numbers, examine the condition they are in, view their arms and accoutrements, and investigate other matters.
Muster-7ZoZZs, lists of soldiers in each company, troop, or regiment,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-064805-7633 | MUTATION, the act of changing, or sometimes the change itself.
Mutation, in the ancient music, is applied to the changes or alterations which happen in the order of the sounds composing the melody. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-064806-7633 | MUTATIONES, amongst the Romans, post stages or places where the public couriers were supplied with fresh horses. The mutationes were wholly designed for the use of these couriers or messengers of state, and in this respect they differ from mansiones. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-064807-7633 | MUTCHKIN, a liquid measure used in Scotland, containing four gills, and forming the fourth part of a Scotch pint. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-064808-7633 | MUTE, in a general sense, signifies a person who cannot speak, or has not the use of speech.
Mute, in Grammar, a letter which yields no sound without the addition of a vowel. The simple consonants are distinguished into mutes and liquids, or semi-vowels. The mutes in the Greek alphabet are nine, three of which, π, κ, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-064809-7633 | MUTILATION, the retrenching or cutting away any member of the body.
This word is also extended to statues and buildings, where any part is wanting, or the projection of any member, as a cornice or an impost, is broken off. But it is sometimes used in a more immediate manner to signify castration. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-064810-7633 | MUTINY, in a military sense, is open disobedience of, and resistance to, authority. Any officer or soldier who presumes to use traitorous or disrespectful words against the sacred person of his majesty, or the royal family, is guilty of mutiny. Any officer or soldier who behaves himself with contempt or disrespect towa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-064811-7633 | MUTIS, Joseph Celestino, an eminent natural historian, but peculiarly distinguished for the ardour of his botanical researches, was a native of Spain, and born at Cadiz on the 6th of April 1732. His parents were respectable inhabitants of that city, and conferred on him the best elementary education that could be acqui... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065001-7659 | MUTIUS, Caius, surnamed Codrus, and afterwards Scaevola, was one of the illustrious Roman family of the Mutii, and rendered his name famous in the war between Porsenna king of Tuscany and the Romans. That prince having resolved to restore the family of Tarquin the Proud, went to besiege Rome in the year 507 before Chri... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065002-7659 | MUTTON, the common name of the flesh of a sheep after the animal has been killed. Mutton has been commonly preferred to the flesh of all quadrupeds; and, indeed, besides being more perfect, it has the advantage of being more generally suited to different climates, whereas beef, for instance, requires a very nice interm... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065003-7659 | MUTUAL, a relative term, denoting something that is reciprocal between two or more persons. Thus we say, mutual assistance, mutual aversion. There are mutual or reciprocal duties, offices, and the like, between superiors and inferiors, as the king and his subjects, the master and his servants, &c. Vaugelas makes a dist... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065004-7659 | MUTULE, in Architecture, a kind of square modillon set under the cornice of the Doric order. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065005-7659 | MUTUNUS, or Mutinus, in fabulous history, a deity amongst the Romans, similar to the Priapus of the Greeks. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065006-7659 | MUZZLE of a Gun or Mortar, the extremity at which the powder and ball is put in; and hence the muzzle ring is the metallic circle or moulding which surrounds the mouth of the piece. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065007-7659 | MYCALE, a city and mountain of Caria, and also a promontory of Asia, opposite Samos, celebrated for a battle which was fought there between the Greeks and Persians about the year of Rome 275. The Persians, about 100,000 strong, had just returned from the unsuccessful expedition of Xerxes in Greece; and having drawn the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065101-7672 | MYCENAE, in Ancient Geography, a town of Argolis, in Peloponnesus. The kingdom of the Argives was divided into two portions by Acrisius and his brother Proetus, and Argos and Mycenae were their capitals. These, as belonging to the same family, and distant only about fifty stadia, or six miles and a quarter from each ot... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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