but there is one which seems more probable than any that he has given us: viz. that these purchases being usually made by ecclesiastical bodies, the members of which (being professed) were reckoned dead persons in law, land therefore, holden by them, might with great propriety he said to be held in mortua manu.-Blackstone. Com. b. i. c. 18.

MOSS, n.
Moss, v.
Mo'ssy.
MO'SSINESS.

Fr. Misque, mousse; It. Musco, muschio; Sp. Moho; Dut. and Ger. Mos, moos; Sw. Mossa; A. S. Meos. Ihre says that mossa (in Mid. Lat. Mussa) is-locus uliginosus, utpote MORT-PAY, i. e. "taking or receiving of the qui musco obsitus esse solet. A marshy, oozy And King's Highnesse (pay or) wages for more soul-place, because usually overgrown with moss. diers then served, or for mo' dayes then they the Lat. Muscus is referred to by Skinner, Meserved," being dead or discharged. nage, &c., and that (Vossius) is from Gr. Mooxos, soft, tender

This parliament was merely a parliament of warre; for it was in substance but a declaration of warre against France and Scotland, with some statutes conducing thereunto; as the seuere punishing of mort-payes, and keeping backe of souldiours wages in captains.-Bacon. Hen. VII. 101. p.

MOSAICK, adj.
MOSA'ICK, n.
MOSA'ICAL.

Fr. Mosaique, musaique; It. Mosaico, musaico; Sp. Mosayaca. The Lat. MuMOSA'ICALLY. sivum is used by Spartian, (quoted by Menage in his Dictionary, and by Vossius, de Vit. c. 11,) and those who executed mosaick work were called musivarii. The Gr. Μουσα, μουσικόν, were applied generally to express neatness, elegance, neatly or elegantly performed, fitted or adapted; and Scaliger infers that this kind of work was so called-a concinnitate et elegantiâ. See Musivum Opus, in Du Cange. See the quotation from Evelyn.

And behind the thickets again new beds of flowers which, being under the trees, the trees were to them a pavilion, and they to the trees a mosaical flower.

Sidney. Arcadia, b. i. p. 15.
Each beauteous flower,

Iris all hues, roses, and gessamin,
Rear'd high their flourisht heads between, and wrought
Mosaic.
Milton. Paradise Lost, b. iv.

They (mix'd in workes) mosaically grow.
And yet each part doth every kinde bestow.

Stirling. Domes-day. Twelfth Houre.

But where it is made of lesser stones, or rather morsels of them, assisted with small squares of thick glass, of which some are gilded or cemented in the stuc or plaster, it is called mosaic-work, opus musivum.

Evelyn. Miscell. Writings, p. 423.
The liquid floor inwrought with pearls divine,
Where all his labours in mosaic shine.

Savage. The Wanderer, c. 5.

The tonsile box
Wove, in mosaic mode of many a curl,
Around the figured carpet of the lawn.

Mason. The English Garden, b. i.
At that time, says Vasari, flourished there Peter Cavalini,
a painter, and the inventor of mosaic.
Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. c. 1.

MOSAICK.
MOSA'ICAL.

Of or pertaining to Moses.

For that king [Ptolomeus Philadelphus] having collected a great library, it was suggested to him by Demetrius Phalerius, the keeper of it, a philosopher, and once governor of the Athenian commonwealth; and by Aristæas, a man of honourable place in the king's court; that among other books, there was none would more adorn and enrich the same, than a Greek copy of the Mosaick law.

Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. iv. c. 1.

But that Pythagoras was acquainted with the Mosaical, or Jewish phylosophy, there is ample testimony of it in writers; as of Aristobulus, an Egyptian Jew, in Clemens Alexandrinus, and Josephus against Appion.

More. Defence of the Philosophic Cabbala, c. 3. The Mosaic law, as it was planned by unerring wisdom, was unquestionably admirably well contrived for the great purposes for which it was intended-to maintain the knowledge of the true God among a particular people, and to cherish an opinion of the necessity of an expiatory sacrifice for involuntary offences, till the season should arrive for the general revelation.-Bp. Horsley, vol. ii. Ser. 21.

MO'SQUE. Fr. Mosquée; It. Moschea; Sp.
Mesquita. Menage observes that throughout the
oriental languages Sagad signifies to adore, and
that the Arabic Mesgid is a place of adoration.
Would not Heraclitus laugh to see Macrine,
From hat, to shoe, himselfe at dore refine,
As if the presence were a moschite.-Donne, Sat. 4.
The female's feeble sex, and silver'd sage,
Too soft by nature, or unnerv'd by age,
With trembling infants to the mosques repair.

Brookes. Jerusalem Delivered, b. iii.

By his [Mahomet II.] command the metropolis of the Eastern church was transformed into a mosch: the rich and portable instruments of superstition had been removed; the crosses were thrown down; and the walls, which were covered with images and mosaics, were washed and purified, and restored to a state of naked simplicity.

Gibbon. Roman Empire, vol. xii. c. 68.

That no man myghte se hym. for muche mos and leves.
Piers Plouhman, p. 286.

O mossie quince hanging by your stalke
The whiche no man dare plucke away nor take.
Another Ballade. Imputed to Chaucer.

And on the stone that still doth turn about,
There groweth no mosse.-Wyatt. How to vse the Court.
Vnder an oake, whose browes were moss'd with age,
And high top, bald with drie antiquitie,

A wretched ragged man, ore-growne with haire,
Lay sleeping on his back.

Shakespeare. As You Like It, Act iv. sc. 3.
And the short moss that on the trees is found.

Drayton. Barons' Wars, b. iii.
Moss groweth chiefly upon ridges of houses, tiled or
thatched, and upon the crests of walls.

Religions that arise in ages totally ignorant and barbarous, consist mostly of traditional tales and fictions, which may be different in every sect, without being contrary to each other.-Hume, pt. i. Ess. 7.

MOT.

Fr. Mot; It. Motto; Sp. Móte
MOTTO. Lat. Mut-ire; Gr. Mudos.
A word, a saying.

This is the day: Now what of this day? There shall be a motto written: An honourable motto, such as was written upon the turbant of the High Priest, holinesse to the Lord. Bp. Hall. The Impresse of God. A Sermon, pt. i. It was the motto that was wont to be written upon the Scottish coin, as the emblem of their thistle, Nemo me impunè lacesset; "None shall scape free, that provokes me." Id. Sermon, June 9, 1644.

Mævio's first page of his poesy,
Nayl'd to a hundredth postes for noveltie,
With his big title, an Italian mott,
Layes siege unto the backward buyers grote.
Reproach is stamp'd in Collatinus' face,
And Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar,
How he in peace is wounded-not in war.

Id. b. v. Sat. 2.

Shakespeare. Rape of Lucrece.

MOTE. See MIGHT.
MOTE. Mot is found in A. S., but no traces
of it in Dut. Ger. or Swed. It is probably a

Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 537. mite, and so called from its smallness.
We are both old, and may be spar'd, a pair
Of fruitless trees, mossie and withered trunks,
That fill up too much room.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Coronation, Act ii. sc. 1.
That the water be never by rest discoloured, greene or
red or the like; or gather any mossinesse or putrefaction.
Bacon. Ess. Of Gardens.
Their down or mossinesse which they beare, if it be boiled
in wine, and reduced into a linement with wax, healeth
carbuncles.-Holland. Plinie, b. xxiii. c. 6.

Which [vnruly winde] for enlargement striuing,
Shakes the old beldame Earth, and tombles downe
Steeples, and mosse-grown towers.

Shakespeare. 1 Pt. Hen. IV. Act iii. sc. 1.

A grot there was, with hoary moss o'ergrown,
Rough with rude shells, and arch'd with mouldering stone.
Garth. Claremont.
The wat'ry tyrant calls his brooks and floods,
Who roll from mossy caves, their moist abodes,
And with perpetual urns his palace fill.

Dryden. Ovid. Metam. b. i.
What more beautiful objects in nature, than the stalk and
buds of the moss rose! To the sense of touch they are posi-
tively disagreeable; but we think of them only with a
reference to the sense of smelling and sight; and the effect
is on the whole beautiful.-Stewart. Philos. Ess. c. 4. Ess. 1.

MOST, adj.
MOST, n.
MOST, ad.
MO'STLY.

See MORE. A. S. Mast; Dut.
Meest; Ger. Meist.

Greatest, largest, in number
or quantity.

Which is the leeste of all sedis, but whanne it hath woxen it is the mooste of al wortis.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 13.

But yet he hadde a moost derworthe sone, and he sente
him laste to hem, and seide, peraventure thei wolen drede
my sone.-Id. Mark, c. 12.

He [this duk] was comen almost to the toun,
In all his wele and in his moste pride.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 896.

Echeman wot wel, that at a kinges fest
Is plentee, to the most and to the lest,
And daintees mo than ben in my knowing.
Id. The Squieres Tale, v. 10,614.
They slepen til that it was prime large
The moste part.
Id. Ib. v. 10,675.

Thy soveraine temple wol I most honouren
Of ony place. Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 20,409.
For whan his semblant is moste clere,
Than is he moste derke in his thought.

Gower. Con. A. b. ii.

Or hou seist thou to thi brother, brother suffre I schal do out a mote [A.S. version, mot] fro thin yghe, and lo a beem is in thin owne yghe.-Wielif. Matthew, c. 7.

Or why sayest ya to thy brother: suffre me to plucke out the moote out of thyne eye & behold a beame is in thine own eye.-Bible, 1531. Ib.

That serchen every land and every streme,
As thikke as motes in the sonne-beame.

Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 6451.

For whoso will his handes lime,
They muste be the more vnclene.
For many a mote shall be sene,
That will not cleue elles there.

Gower. Con. A. b. ii.

And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess,
As thick, as numberless,

As the gay motes that people the sun-beams.

Milton. Il Penseroso. For moats may enter, where beams cannot; and small offences find admittance, where great and clamorous crimes fright the soul to a standing upon its guard, to prevent the invasion.-South, vol. vi. Ser. 11.

In a dark'ned room, where the light is permitted to enter particles of dust, that are commonly called motes, and, unbut at one hole, (I have often observed) the little wandering less in the sun-beams, are not taken notice of by the unassisted sight.-Boyle. Works, vol. vi. p. 689.

MO/TEN.
MOTH.
MO'THEN.
MO'THY.

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See MOOT.

Wiclif writes-Moughte; A. S. Mogthe, mothe; Ger. and Dut, Motte; Sw. Mott, from Ger. Mahen, mayen, maiten, to cut, to sever, (Wachter.) The same word as mouth, (Goth. Mat-gith,) that which eateth; the third pers. of the indicative of Goth. Matian; A. S. Metian, edere, to eat, (Tooke.)

An insect that eateth or fretteth a garment.
An unredy reve thi residue shal spene

That meneye moththe was ynn.-Piers Plouhman, p. 213. Nile ye tresoure to you tresouris in erthe were rust and mought distryeth.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 6.

So yt ye gather you not treasure vpon ye earth, where rust and mothes corrupt.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

These wormes, ne these mothes, ne these mites
Upon my paraille frett hem never a del,
And wost thou why? for they were used wel.

Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Prologue, v. 6114. Salomon sayth, that right as mouthes in the shepes fleese anoien to the clothes, and the smale wormes to the tree, right so anoieth sorwe to the herte of man.

Id. The Tale of Melibeus. Your riches is corrupte, your garmētes are mothe-eaten. Bible, 1551. Judas, c. 5. We rake not up olde, mouldie, and mothen parchmentes to seeke our progenitours' names.

Of that commixtion they did then beget
This hellish dog, that hight the blatant beast;
A wicked monster, that his tongue doth whet
'Gainst all, both good and bad, both most and least.
Fulke against Allen, (1580,) p. 125.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 6.
The moath breedeth upon cloth; and other lanifices : espe-
Now being broad day Emylius' triumph was referred to
cially if they be laid up dankish, and wet.
flatly did deny his triumph.—North. Plutarch, p. 218.
the most number of voices of the people, and the first tribe

Most strength the moving principle requires ;
Active its task, it prompts, impels, inspires.
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. 2.

Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 696.
His horse hip'd with an olde mothy saddle and stirrops of
no kindred.—Shakespeare. Taming the Shrew, Act iii. sc. 2.
Neglected heaps we in by-corners lay,
Where they become to worms and meths a prey.
Dryden. The Art of Poetry

MOTHER, n. A. S. Meder, medder, modor; MOTHER, adj. Dut. Moeder; Ger. Mutter; MOTHER, V. Sw. Moder; Fr. Mère; It. MOTHERHOOD. Madre; Sp. Mádre; Lat. MOTHERLESS. Mater ; Gr. Μητηρ. Some MOTHERLY, adj. derive from the Gr. Ma-ev, MOTHERLY, ad. vehementer cupere. Rudbeckins (see Ihre), from the Suio-Goth. Moeda; labor, a partûs labore: others (and with good reason) that the first syllable is Ma:-see MAMA, FATHER, and PAPA.

The parent, producer, or bearer; one who, that which, bears or produces (sc.) children, young of their own kind; any offspring.

Also applied to any person or thing having the seniority, rank, or authority of a mother.

The Mother, in the original of the passage quoted from Holland's Plinie-tumens alvus et suf

My mother! when I learn'd that thou wast dead,
Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed?
Hover'd thy spirit o'er thy sorr'wing son,
Wretch even then, life's journey just begun?

Cowper. On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture.

As mothers, women have for some time, and that the most
critical time too, the care of the education of their children
of both sorts, who, in the next age, are to make up a great
body of the world.-Horne. Works, vol. v. Dis. 15.

As we call our first language our mother tongue, so we
may as justly call our first tempers our mother tempers.
Id. Ib.
Three such highblooded bards as Linus, Orpheus, and
Musæus, so fathered and so mothered, were enough to people
all Greece with poets and musicians.-Observer, No. 67.

MOTHER, v.
MOTHER, n.
MOTHERY.

Ger. Moder; Dut. Moeder, modder, fæx, fæces; Sw.Modder, mud. Applied to

The muddy or thick substance, that gathers to

focatio mulierum; in others-strangulatio, conver-gether or concretes in liquors.
so vulvæ, conversa vulva. Gr. Υστερικη πνιξ,
sterica suffocatio.

A clerk thoru enchantement hym bygan to telle,
That the schulde first fader and moder quelle.

R. Gloucester, p. 10.
Whan Marie the moder of Jhesus was spousd to Joseph
before thei camnen togadre she was foundun hauynge the
Holy Goost in wombe.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 1.

The bis [Jesus] mother Mary was maried to Joseph, befe they came to dwel together, she was founde we childe by the Holy Goost.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

A cleen religioun and an unwemmed anentis God and the dir is this, to visite fadirles and modir les children and widewis in hir tribulacioun, and to kepe himsilff undeled in this world.-Wiclif. James, c. 1.

Bidding the quene, whan the child wer borne,

Without mercy or moderly pite

That he be dead.

Lidgate. The Story of Thebes, pt. i.

There was enough to wepe and crie
Amonge the moders, whan thei herde
Howe wofully this cause ferd.

Gower. Con. A. b. ii.

Thus she that was as who saith madde,

Of wo, whiche hath hir ouerladde,

Without insight of motherhed,

Forgate pitee.

Id. Ib. b. v.

At both these times were they motherles and helplesse, cernyng theyr owne strengthes: but were yet cared for of God and receyued by his mercye.

Bible, 1551. Ezechiel, c. 26. Notes.

The motherelaw agaynst her daughterelaw, & the doughreaw agaynst her mother elawe.-Id. Luke, c. 12.

felde is called in theyr mother-tōge, Acheldama, that is

to say, the bloude feld.-Id. Actes, c. 1.

Fial. You, sir,

Would have me mother bastards, being unable

To honour me with one child of mine own.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Spanish Curate, Act iv. sc. 2.
The rising or suffocation of the mother in women with
the torments and paines thereto incident it cureth.
Holland. Plinie, b. xx. c. 5.

They do use for the accident of the mother, to burn fea-
thers, and other things of ill odour: and by those ill smels,
the rising of the mother is put down.

Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 935.

to thee a simnell bring.

So that, when she blesseth thee,

Gairs: thou go'st a mothering;

Half that blessing thou'lt give me.

Herrick. Hesperides, p. 278.

Lear. Oh how this mother swells vp toward my heart.
Shakespeare. Lear, Act ii. sc. 4.

And mother-like I moane their death

And yet their death allow.

Warner. Albion's England, b. v. c. 23.

Thair doth not motherly sit on the earth,
To hatch her seasons and give all things birth.
Donne Anatomy of the World. The First Anniversary.
Consecrating the little rest of my time to those studies to

h nature had so motherly inclined me, and from which
like a stepmother has so long detained me.

Cowley. The Danger of Procrastination.

Where thou shalt see the blessed mother-maid

is not being that which men have said;

Where she's exalted more for being good,

Tan for her interest of motherhood.

Donne. Progress of the Soul. Second Anniversary.

For all that Nature by her mother-wit

Cald frame in earth, and forme of substance base,
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 10.

The third [instance, wherein crude and watery substance
turneth into fat and oily] is in the inception of putrefaction;
as in water corrupted; and the mothers of waters distilled.
Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 357.
thought to have written sufficiently, following the steps of
As touching the mother or lees of oile-oliue, I might be
Cato.-Holland. Plinie, b. xxiii. c. 3.

They oint their naked limbs with mother'd oil
Or from the founts where living sulphurs boil,
They mix a medicine to foment their limbs;
With scum that on the molten silver swims.

Dryden. Virgil. Georgics, b. iii.

Or if there is such a juice as Borri pretends, is it not enough to make the clearest liquid in the world both feculent and mothery?-Sterne. Tristram Shandy, vol. ii. c. 19.

MOTTLE, v. Į A colour mixt (or medled) of
MO'TLEY. black and white: q. d. medley,

(Skinner.) See MEDDLE.

The mixture or medley of various colours, (not
merely black and white.)

A merchant was ther with a forked berd,
In mottelee, and highe on horse he sat,
And on his hed a Flaundrish bever hat.

Chaucer. Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, v. 254.
The mottled meadowes then, new varnish'd with the sun,
Shoot up their spicy sweets upon the winds that run,
In easily ambling gales.

Drayton. The Muses' Elysium, Nymphal 6.
For, but thyselfe, where, out of motly, 's hee
Could save that line to dedicate to thee.
B. Jonson, Epigram 53.

Clar. How have you work'd
This piece of motly to your ends?

Beaum. & Fletch. The Lover's Progress, Act i. sc. 1.
His motley mail scarce could the hero bear,
Haranguing thus the tribunes of the war.

Garth. The Dispensary, c. 5.
Why will you join in common-field where pitch,
Noxious to wool, must stain your motley flock
To mark your property?
Dyer. The Fleece, b. ii.
Fr. Mouvoir, motif; It. Mov-
ere, muovere, motivo; Sp. Mover,
motivo; Lat. Movere. Our elder
authors wrote it also Meve.
As to move, (lit.) is——

MOV

Ac another resun wel ver meueth me more therto.
R. Gloucester, p. 453.

To the thridde his goodes meuable.-Id. p. 586.
Bot Jon was the enchesonne, (occasion) and moved ther a
strif.
R. Brunne, p. 206.

Whan Richard had conceyued, that Philip therto stode.
His mobles on siluer reised, thorgh Inglond alle his gode
He comanded to selle.
Id. p. 145.

Ne myspende neyther
Meeble ne unmeeble. mete nother drynke.

Piers Plouhman, p. 175.
erthe movynges and hunger schulen be by placis.
For folk schal rise on folk and rewme on rewme, and

Wiclif. Mark, c. 13. And seith, ghit oonys and I schal moue not oonli erthe, but also heuene. And that he seith ghit oonys he declareth the translacioun of mouable thingis as of maad thingis, that the thingis dwelle that ben unmouable.-Id. Ebrewis, c. 12.

The engenderyng of all thingis (quod she) and all the progressions of mouable nature, and all that mouethe in any maner, taketh his causes, his order, and his formes, of the stablenesse of diuine thought.-Chaucer. Boecius, b. iv. The firste mover of the cause above Whan he firste made the fayre chaine of loue, Gret was th' effect, and high was his entent.

Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 2990. Thou nylte not than denye (quad she) that the mouement of goynge nis in men by kynde.-Id. Boecius, b. iv.

The movable, which that I have in this toun,
Unto my father shall I take.-Id. Troil. & Cres. b. iv.
All other maner yefts hardely,

As londes, rentes, pasture, or commune,
Or mebles, all ben yeftes of fortune.

Id. The Marchantes Tale, v. 9188. And tho been thilke that stablie been fixed nigh to the first godhed, thei surmounten the order of destinable mouabilitie.-Id. Boecius, b. iv.

For, brother min, take of me this motif.

Id. The Marchantes Tale, v. 9366.

This gentil king hath caught a gret motif
Of this witness, and thought he would enquere
Deper in this cas, trouthe for to lere.

Id. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 5048.

Yet after kinde he is meuable
To loue, where he woll or none.-Gower. Con. A. b. iii.

Then he sayd to hys cardynals, Sirs, make you redy, for I woll to Rome. Of that mocyon his cardynalles were sore abashed and displeased, for they loued nat the Romaynes. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 326.

Without respecte of any worldly rewarde or thanke, to
referre the fruiet and successe of his labours to God the mo-
cioner, the autour, and the woorker of all goodness.
Udal. To Queen Catherine.
We have found this man a pestilent felowe, and a mouer
of debate vnto all ye Jewes thorowout ye worlde.
Bible, 1551. Actes, c. 24.
Nor they shall pay nothyng for that they may spende
aboue v.M.li. nor for their mouables.
Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 155.

I saw two angels play'd the mate;
With man, alas! no otherwise it proves,
An unseen hand makes all their moves.-Cowley.

So sacred was the movable temple of God, and with such
reverence guarded and transported, as 22,000 persons were
dedicated to the service and attendance thereof.
Ralegh. Hist. of the World, b. ii. c. 5. s. 1.
It seems Du Moulin tooke his errour at least wise touch-
ing the moueablenesse of the poles of the equator from Joseph
Scaliger.-Hakewill. Apologie, b. ii. c. 3. s. 1.

His back piece is composed of eighteen plates, movably joined together by as many skins.-Grew. Museum.

To suppose a body to be self-existent, or to have the power of Being, is as absurd, as to suppose it to be self-movent, or to have the power of motion, there being as great a distance between existence and non-existence, as between motion and rest.-Id. Cosmo. Sacra, b. i. c. 1.

But whether the sun, or earth, be the common movent,
cannot be determin'd but by a farther appeal.
Glanvil. Vanity of Dogmatizing, c. 9.

Prota. You yourself
That are our mover, and for whom alone
We live, have fail'd yourself in giving way
To the reconcilement of your son.

Beaum. & Fletch. Thierry & Theodoret, Act ii. sc. 1.

I would haue had them writ more mouingly. Shakespeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act ii. sc. 1. Making the like suites, as his wife before his coming had motioned unto his lordship.-Holinshed. Ireland, an. 1575. Don. Well, sir, if I hear any of your apish running to not; look to't.-Ford Tis pity she's a Whore, Act ii. sc. 4.

may move, i. e. actuate or cause to act, incline, motions, and fopperies, till I come back, you were as good

Pope. Prologue to the Satires. induce, influence, impel.

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The atomists, who define motion to be a passage from one place to another, what do they more than put one synonymous word for another? For what is passage other than motion?-Locke. Of Hum. Underst. b. iii. c. 4. s. 3.

Tis plain the meaning of the question, What determines the will? is this; what moves the mind, in every particular instance, to determine its general power of directing to this or that particular motion or rest? And to this I answer, the motive for continuing in the same state of action is only the present satisfaction in it; the motive to change is always some uneasiness; nothing setting us upon the change of state, or even upon any new action, but some uneasiness. This is the great motive that works on the mind to put it upon action, which for shortness' sake we will call determining of the will.-Id. Ib. b. ii. c. 21. §. 29.

Thinking and motivity the primary ideas of spirit.
Id. 16. b. ii. c. 23. § 18. Margin.
The water-nymphs, who motionless remain'd,
Like images of ice, while she complain'd,
Now loos'd their streams.

Congreve. Death of the Marq. of Blandford.
The monster, moveless as a rock, defy'd
The baffled spear.

Hoole. Orlando Furioso, b. x.

The perusal of a history seems a calm entertainment; but would be no entertainment at all, did not our hearts beat with correspondent movements to those which are described by the historian.-Hume. On the Principles of Morals, s. 5. By motive, I mean the whole of that which moves, excites or invites the mind to volition, whether that be one thing singly, or many things conjunctly.

Edwards. On the Freedom of the Will, pt. i. s. 2.

MOUGHT. Now written Might; formed regularly from mow, (to may or be able,) mowed, mow't, mout, mought.

Alfrede was eldest, non mot his wille withhald.
R. Gloucester, p. 52.

MOUND, v. A. S. Mund, septum, perhaps
MOUND, n. from A. S. Mund-ian, tueri, pro-

Beaum. & Fletch. Woman's Prize, Act iii. sc. 3. tegere; to defend or protect: but it seems more

probably to be a mount, or something raised, (sc.)
The A. S. Mund-ian is
as a fence, or defence.
merely a consequential usage of mynd-ian, to mind.
To raise, (sc.) a fence or defence.

To mound

We'll rob the brim of ev'ry fountain,

Strip the sweets from ev'ry mountain,

We will sweep the curled vallies

Brush the banks that mound our alleys.

Drayton. The Muses' Elysium, Nymphal 3.

The warlike elfe much wondred at this tree,

So fayre and great, that shadow'd all the ground;

And his broad braunches, laden with rich fee,

Did stretch themselves without the utmost bound,

Of this great gardin, compast with a mound.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 7.

J. Philips. Cider, b. i.

Sure mounded and with numerous turrets crown'd.

That runs around the hill, the rampart once

Of iron war, in ancient barbarous times.-Thomson.Spring.

MOUNT, v.

MOUNT, n.
MOUNTAIN.

MOUNTAINED.
MOUNTAINEER.
MOUNTAINET.
MOUNTAINOUS.
MOUNTANT.
MOUNTENANCE.
MOUNTER.
MOUNTING, n.
MOUNTINGLY.
MOUNTLET.
Mo'UNTURE.
MOUNTY.
MOUNTEBANK.
MOUNTEBANKERY.

Fr. Monter, mont, montaigne; It. Montare, monte, montagna; Sp. Montar, monte, montana, from the Lat. Mons; which Scaliger thinks is-απο του μever, that is, manendo, whose preterperfect is μεμονα, whence μονos, qui remansit solus, and from μovos, mons, quia permanet, nec loco movetur, because it remains, and is not removed from its place. Mount, the noun, is—

A raised or elevated place, raised ground.

To mount, to rise, to raise, to elevate, to ascend, climb, come or go up. See to AMOUNT. Mountance, mountenance, the amount or sum, the height.

Mouatebank,-It. Montimbanco, montare in banco, -one who mounts upon a bench, (sc.) for some purpose of quackery; hence a quack, a clamorous pretender or boaster.

And vorto passy the mouns.
Of montagnes hii come adoun.

R. Gloucester, p. 220.
Id. p. 407.

Of all the remenant of min other care

Ne set I not the mountance of a tare,

So that I coud don ought to your plesance.

Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 1572.

Put the anguishous loue of hauyng in folke burneth more
ay, than the mountain of Ethna, that aie brenneth..
Id. Boecius, b. ii.

The water is euer fresh and new
That wel meth vp with waues bright

The moustenaunce of two finger hight.-Id. R. of the R.

And with his hoste the waie hath take

Ar the mountes of Lumbardie.-Gower. Con. A. Prol.

As be Tiresias] walkend goth par cas

pra an highe mountaine, he sigh

Two serpentes in his weye nigh.

And I bode in the place stille,

And was there but a litell while,

Nit fall the mountance of a mile.

The sport which for that day Basilius would principally show to Zelmane, was the mounty of a hearn, which got up height as though the air next to the earth were not fit for

on his waggling wings with pain, till he was come to some

his great body to fly through.- Sidney. Arcadia, b. i.
The mounture so well made, and for my pitch so fit,
As though I see faire peeces moe, yet few so fine as it.
Gascoigne. The Complaint of the Greene Knight.
When he was readie to his steede to mount
Unto his way, which now was all his care and court.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 10.
She had not rid the mountenance of a flight,
But that she saw there present in her sight
Those two false brethren on that perilous bridge.
Id. Ib. b. v. c. 6.
When the ancient generals spake to their armies, they
had ever a mount of turfe cast up where upon they stood.
Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 205.
Hold vp, you sluts,
Your aprons mountant.
Shakespeare. Timon of Athens, Act iv. sc. 3.
This Cleon was a mountaineer,
And of the wilder kind.

Drayton. The Muses' Elysium, Nymphal 2.
Those snowy mountlets, through which do creep
The milky rivers that are inly bred

In silver cisterns.-P. Fletcher. Christ's Vict. & Triumph.
And tho' they to the earth were thrown,
Yet quickly they regain'd their own;
Such nimbleness was never shown,
They were two gallant mounters.

Drayton. Nymphidia, or The Court of Fairy.
From this [Tarrace] the beholder descending many steps,
was afterwards conveyed again by several mountings and
valings to various entertainments of his sent and sight.
Reliquia Wottonianæ, p. 64.
But leap'd for joy
So mountingly, I touch'd the stars, methought.
Massinger. Old Law, Act ii. sc. 1.
shaft length high, and that being upon an elephant's back
Most writers agree that Porus was four cubits and a
he wanted nothing in hight and bigness to be proportion-
able for his mounture, albeit it were a very great elephant.
North. Plutarch, p. 584.

Stares like a mountebank who had forgot
His viol, and the cursed poyson took
By dire mistake before his antidote.

Davenant. Gondibert, h. iii. c. 6.
Pol. Fellowes, to mounte a banke! Did your instructer
In the deare tongues, never discourse to you
Of the Italian mountebanks?

B. Jonson. The Fox, Act ii. sc. 2.
The idlest and the paltriest mime that ever mounted upon
bank.-Milton. Apology for Smectymnuus.

This of purifying, the only true expedient [is] yet untried
(whilst all others are experimented to be but mere empirical
state mountebankery.)-Hammond. Works, vol. iv. p. 509.
Who from the Saxons' power
Themselves in deserts, creeks, and mount'nous wastes
bestow'd.
Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 5.
Behold yon mountain's hoary height
Made higher with new mounts of snow,
Again behold the winter's weight
Oppress the labouring woods below.

Dryden. Horace, b. iii. Ode 29.
When Giant Vice and Irreligion rise
On mountain'd falsehoods to invade the skies:
Then warmer numbers glow through Satire's page,
And all her smiles are darken'd into rage.
Brown. Essay on Satire.

The sturdy mountaineers
Who saw their mightiest fall'n, and in his fall
Their honours past impair'd.-Somervile. Hobbinol, c. 2.
But as there are certain mountebanks and quacks in
physick, so there are much the same also in divinity.
South, vol. iv. Ser. 1.
Freed from the confines of her Gothic grave,
When her first light reviving Science gave,
Alike o'er Britain shone the liberal ray
From Enswith's mountains to the banks of Tay.
Langhorne. Genius & Valour.
The willow's grateful to the pregnant ewes,
Showers to the corns, to kids the mountain-brouse.
Beattie, Past. 3.

When ridgy seas, by hurricanes uptorn,
In mountanous commotion dash between,
And either deck, in black'ning tempests veil'd,
Waft from its distant foe.
MOURN, v.
Mo'URNER.

MOU

&c., but to the dress denoting the cause.
Mourning, n. is not only applied to the grief,

Ac the kyng of Engelond, in such sor & mournynge,
Carede of ys gonge sones mest of alle thynge.
R. Gloucester, p. 299.

Of his body was no force, non for him wild murne.
R. Brunne, p. 20.
Sir Ode herd that tithing, fulle mournand was his chere.
Thanne morned Mede. meuyng hure to the kynge
Id. p. 94.
To have space to speke. Piers Plouhman, p. 49.
Blessid ben thei that mournen: for thei schal be coun-
fortid.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 5.

Blessid are they that mourne: for they shall be coforted.
Bible, 1551. Ib.
I seie to ghou that ghe shulen morene and wepe, but the
world schal haue ioie.-Id. John, c. 16.

I ne had al vtterlye foreleten the wepinge and the mourninge that was sette in min herte.-Chaucer. Boecius, b. iv. About my heauy hearse, some mourners would I haue, Who might the same accompany and stand about the graue. Gascoigne. Dan Bartholomew of Bathe.

Yet cannot she rejoyce,

Nor frame one warbling note to pass, out of her mournfull
voyce.
Id. Flowers. Lamentation of a Louer.
Henceforth his ghost, freed from repining strife,
In peace may passen over Lethe lake;
When mourning altars, purg'd with enemies life,
The black infernall furies doen aslake.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 3.
And by the lights as they along were led,
Their shadows then from following at their back,
Were like to mourners carrying forth their dead.
Drayton. Barons' Wars, b. vi.

Yet seem'd she to appease
Her mournefull plaintes.-Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c.1.
Beate thou the drumme that it speake mournfully.
Shakespeare. Coriolanus, Act v. sc. 5.
Or when me list my slender pipe to raise,
Sing of Eliza's fixed mournfulness,
And much bewail such woeful heaviness.

P. Fletcher. To my Cousin, W. R. Esq.
But when my mournings I do think upon
My wormwood, hemloc, and affliction;
My soul is humbled in rememb'ring this.

Donne. The Lamentations of Jeremy, c. 3. Laf. He was excellent indeed, madam, the king very latelie spoke of him admiringly, and mourningly.

Shakespeare. All's Well that Ends Well, Act i. sc. 1.
Reluctant now I touch the trembling string,
Bereft of him who taught me how to sing;
And these sad accents, murmur'd o'er his urn,
Betray that absence they attempt to mourn.

Tickel. On the Death of Mr. Addison.

Yet if he steps forth with a Friday look, and a lenten face, with a blessed Jesu, a mournful ditty for the vices of the times; oh! then he is a saint upon earth; an Ambrose or an Augustine.-South, vol. vi. Ser. 3.

Her pinions ruffle, and low dropping, scarce
Can bear the mourner to the poplar shade;
Where all abandon'd to despair, she sings
Her sorrows through the night.

As cat a good mouser is needfull in house,
Because for commons she killeth the mouse.

Tusser. November's Husbandry.

Old Man. 'Tis vnnaturall,
Euen like the deed that's done: on Tuesday last,

A falcon tow'ring in her pride of place,
Was by a mowsing owle hawkt at, and kill'd.

Shakespeare. Macbeth, Act ii. sc. 4.
O' th' tother side, the pollicie of those craftie swearing
rascalls; that stale old mouse-eaten dry cheese, Nestor.
Id. Troyl. & Cres. Act v. sc. 4.
La. I-you haue bin a mouse-hunt in your time
But I will watch you from such watching now.
Id. Romeo & Juliet, Act iv. sc. 4.

Valour's a mouse-trap, Wit a gin,
Which women oft are taken in.

MOUTH, n.
MOUTH, v.
MOUTHFUL.

MOUTHING, n.

Hudibras, pt. ii. c. 3.

A. S. Muth, the third person singular maith of the indicar tive of the Goth. Mat-jan; A. S. Met-ian, edere, to eat; that which eateth. The Goth. Munths, Ger. Mund, may be, as Wachter thinks, from Goth. and A. S. Mun-an, Ger. Mein-en, to tell the meaning, or what any one means.

Mouth (because it opens to receive meat, &c.) is applied to the opening or entrance of a river, of a vessel, &c. Also to the voice or speech, to the speaker, and principal organ of speech.

To mouth, to eat, to chew; generally, to use,
to do ought with, to move in or with the mouth.
The toun me cleputh Lude's town, that is wyde cowth
And now me clepeth it London, that ys lygter in the
mouth.
R. Gloucester, p. 44.

I praye God if it wer so I strangle of this brede.
& putte a morselle in his mouth with that ilk worde,
Bifor the kyng & tham alle he strangled at the borde.

Id. p. 55.
A lute bifore Cornewail, as is an hauenes mouthe.
Id. p. 20.
Thene Mercy ful myldeliche. mouthed thes wordes.
Piers Plouhman, p. 347.
For it aren murye mouthede men. mynstralles of hevene.
Id. p. 153.
With little mouth, and round to see.--Chaucer. R. of the R.
A iangler, an euill mouthed one.-Gower. Con. A. b. v.
Ye generacioun of eddres: how moun ye speke gode
thingis whanne ye ben yvele? for the mouth spekith of
plentee of the hert.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 12.

O generació of vipers, how can you say wel when ye yourselues are euel, for of the aboundance of ye hert, the mouth speaketh.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

But I am slowe mouthed and slowe tongued.

Id. Exodus, c. 4.
And every head with fiery tongue did flame,
And every head was crowned on his crest,
And bloody mouthed with late cruel feast.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 8.

Bast. And if thou hast the mettle of a king,
Being wrong'd as we are by this peeuish towne :
Turne thou the mouth of thy artillerie,
As we will ours, against these sawcie walles.

Shakespeare. K. John, Act ii. sc. 2.

The king is bound to right me, they good people
Have but from hand to mouth.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Mad Lover, Act i. sc. 1.
A plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and
at last devours them all at a mouthful.
Shakespeare. Pericles, Act ii. sc. 1.

The beholder at first sight conceives it a rude and in-
formous lump of flesh, and imputes the ensuing shape unto
the mouthing of the dam.-Brown. Vulg. Err. b iii. c. 6.
Timon. May you a better feast neuer behold,
You knot of mouth-friends: smoke, and lukewarm water
Is your perfection.

Shakespeare. Timon of Athens, Act iii. sc. 6.

--But in their steed
Curses, not loud but deepe, mouth-honor, breath
Which the poore heart would faine deny, and dare not.
Id. Macbeth, Act v. sc. 3.

Many speeches also were put into the mouths of wrong persons, where the author now seems chargeable with making them speak out of character: or sometimes, perhaps, for no better reason, than that a governing player, to have the mouthing of some favourite speech himself, would snatch it from the unworthy lips of an underling.

Cow-horns and trumpets mix their martial tones,
Kidneys and kings, mouthing and marrow-bones.
Warton. Prologue on the Old Winchester Playhouse.
A. S. Maw-an; Dut. Maey-en;
Ger. Mahen; Sw. Maja, secare,

to cut.

MOW, v.
Mow, n.
MO'WER.
To cut, to reap. A mow.-
That which is cut, and heaped, or put into a
heap;
See MORE.
; and consequentially, a heap.
The godes knygtes leyn adoun as gras, wan medeth mowe.
R. Gloucester, p. 261.
I do not meane alonely husbandmen.
Which till the ground, which dig, delve, mote, and sowe,
Which swinke and sweat, whiles we do sleepe and snort.
Gascoigne. The Steele Glas.
They [shalbe] as the grasse on the house toppes, which
withereth afore it cometh forthe. Whereof the mower filleth
not his hand, nether the glainer his lap.
Geneva Bible, 1569. Psalm 129.
Each muck-worme will be rich with lawlesse gaine,
Altho' he smother up mowes of seven years' graine,
And hang'd himselfe when corn grows cheap again.
Bp. Hall, b. iv. Sat. 6.

While the plowman near at hand
Whistles o'er the furrow'd land,
And the milk-maid singeth blithe,
And the mower wets his sithe.-Milton. L'Allegro.
Nor flocks, nor herds, nor mowers haunt the place
To crop the flowers, or cut the bushy grass.
Rowe. Ovid. Metam. b. xii.
In slanting rows,
With still-approaching step, and level'd stroke,
The early mower, bending o'er his scythe
Lays low the slender grass.-Dodsley. Agriculture, c. 2.
MOW. Still a provincialism. A. S. Mag-an;
Dut. Mog-her; Ger. Moegen, posse, to be able.
We now use May, (qv.) and MOUGHT.

"Lord," he seyde, "we beth men wyde y dryue aboute
From countrey to countrei that we mowen nower route.
R. Gloucester, p. 39.
I seye to you, many seken to entre: and thei schulen not
mowe.-Wiclif. Luke, c. 13.

Moun ye drynke the cuppe whiche I schal drynke? thei
seyn to him we moun.-Id. Matthew, c. 20.

It is an honour to everich that is here,
That ye moun have a suffisant pardonere
To assoilen you in contree as ye ride,
For auentures, which that moun betide.

Chaucer. The Pardoneres Tale, v. 12,868.
We moun wel maken chere and good visage,
And driven forth the world as it may be.

Id. The Shipmannes Tale, v. 13,160.
For some men sain, "In muchel suffring shul many
thinges falle unto thee, which thou shalte not more suffre."
Id. The Tale of Melibeus.

But that science is so far us beforne,
We mowen not, although we had it sworne,
It overtake, it slit away so fast.

MOW, n.

Id. The Chanones Yemannes Tale, v. 16,148.

Corrupted from Mouth; Fr. Moue,
a moe, or mouth, (Cotgrave.)
And whan a wight is from her whele ithrow,
Than laugheth she [Fortune] and maketh him the mowe.
Chaucer. Troil. & Cres. b. iv. s. 1.
Yea the very lame come together agaynst me vnawares,
makinge mowes at me, and ceasse not.-Bible, 1551. Ps. 35.

What helpeth it also that the priest whe he goeth to masse

disguiseth him selfe with a great part of the passion of Christ,

and playeth out the rest vnder silence with signs and pro-
fers, with noddyng, beckyng and mowyng, as it were Jacke
an apes, when neither he himselfe neither any man els
woteth what he meaneth.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 123.

For euery trifle, are they set vpon me,
Sometime like apes, that moe and chatter at me,
And after bite me.-Shakespeare. Tempest, Act ii. sc. 2.
MUCH, n. In Sp. Mucho, to which, says
MUCH, adj. Tooke, Junius and Skinner irra-
MUCH, ad. tionally refer us. Much, be
MU'CKLE, or asserts, is merely the diminutive
MO'KELL. of mo, passing through the gra-
dual changes of mokel, mykel, mochil, muchel, (still
retained in Scotland,) moche, much.

Much always expresses or implies, a coacerva-
tion or accumulation, agreeably or consistently
with its etymology, mow, a heap; a number or
Pope. Pref. to Shakespeare.
quantity heaped or accumulated; an increased or
She found the veil, and mouthing it all o'er
enlarged, a large or great quantity or number;
With bloody jaws the lifeless prey she tore.
Eusden. Ovid. Metam. b. iv. any thing large or great. See MORE.

Homber bryngeth by North muche god and wyde.
R. Gloucester, p

Tho kyng bi huld hem faste ynow (for it muchel mer

were)

And nameliche the twei brethren (for so muchel non ther
nere.)
Id. p. 111.
He lay muchedel of the nygt in wo and in sorwe.
Id. p. 240.

& teld how the Bretons, men of mykelle myght:

R. Brunne, p. 2. For of mych tribulacioun and angishe of herte I wroot to ghou bi manye teeris.-Wiclif. 2 Corynth. c. 1.

Wide was his parish, and houses fer asonder,
But he ne left nought for no rain ne thonder,
In sikenesse and in mischief to visite
The ferrest in his parish, moche and lite,
Upon his fete, and in his hand a staf.

Chaucer. Prol. to the Canterbury Tales, v. 196.
Thou shalt be wedded unto on of tho,
That han for thee so mochel care and wo.

Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 2354.
"Tell me what that ye seken by your fay.
Peraventure it may the better be:
Thise olde folk con mochel thing." quod she.
Id. The Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 6586.

In humble dales is footing fast,
The trode is not so tickle,
And though one fall through heedless haste,
Yet is his misse not mickle.

Spenser. Shepheard's Calender. July
And all this tract that fronts the falling sun

A noble peer of mickle trust and power
Has in his charge, with temper'd awe to guide
An old and haughty nation proud in arms.-Millon. Com
Then sighing oft; "I learn that little sweet
Oft tempred is," quoth she, "with muchell smart'
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 4
Thus far my charity this path has try'd;
A much unskilful, but well-meaning guide.

Id. Ib.

Dryden. Religio Laici
If after all they stand suspected still,
For no man's faith depends upon his will;
'Tis some relief, that points not clearly known
Without much hazard may be let alone.
""Twere well, could we permit the world to live
As the world pleases: what's the world to you?"
Much. I was born of woman, and drew milk
As sweet as charity from human breasts.
I think, articulate, I laugh, and weep,
And exercise all functions of a man.-Cowper. Task, b.ii

MUCILAGE. Į Fr. Mucilage; It. Mucila MUCILA'GINOUS. gine, from the Lat. Mucus and that from mungere, to wipe. See To SNITE. As the Fr. Mucilage, slime; or a slim liquor drawn from seeds, roots, &c., and thene a clammy sap, glewie juice, cleaving moisture, (Cotgrave.)

Dissolution of gum tragacanth, and oil of sweet almond do not commingle, the oil remaining on the top till they t stirred and make the mucilage somewhat more liquid. Bacon. Physiological Remain

ii. There is a sort of magnetism, not only in amber but i jett; as is known; but also in gumm anime, gumm elem and in all other, not mucilaginous, but resinous gumm even in common rosin itself.-Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b.i. c.

Then grate it on a grater which has no bottom, that so may pass thro', like a mucilage, into a dish of earthenware Evelyn. Acetari

MUCK, n.
MUCK, v.
MUCKY.

Junius derives from A. {
Skinns

is in doubt. Tooke consider MUCKENDER. muck to be the past tense ar past part. of the A. S. Mic-jan, meiere, mingere, ar to mean any thing staled upon. The hay, strat &c. staled upon by cattle make the muck-heap.