MIYAJIMA 



|iU. , anil the two ingre- 

 be separated by ap- 



demeans. If, however, heat 



'ied tn tin- mixture, the iron 



and .sulphur romlmie elieinieiilly, 



ami .1 in u Mil.st.uin-. iron sulphide, 



rmed, \\liuli possesses the 



t neither ingre- 



The term mixture in pharm- 



applied to lii(iiitl medii-ines 

 \\hii-h eithei < "iitain insoluble 



aces in suspension, or are 

 n miaoued of two or more liquids, 

 with or without other matters in 



MIL 

 Miyajima. Sa< n-d island ol 



MI Hiroshima Bay, an arm of 

 the I ilium! SIM. The island, also 

 railed 1 1 <ukushima, is counted as 

 one i if tin- three most celebrated 



MI .lapan, on account of its 



y and temples : it is 5 m. by 

 i'A m.. and t 'ill inmates in Misen, 



M. .Miyajima town, pop. 

 UN HI, on the N.W. coast, is con- 

 i by steam ferry with Miya- 

 jima station in Honshu, on the 

 main line between Kobe and Shim- 

 onoseki. The temples were known 

 m the 9th century, restored in 

 t he 1 2th century, and destroyed by 

 fire and rebuilt several times since. 

 Aliout 40,000 pilgrims visit the 

 island annually. See Inland Sea. 



Miyanoshita. Inland watering- 

 I'l.i" i- of Japan, in the Hakone 

 i list, of Honshu. It is situated on a 



'. el tract in the valley of the 

 Hayakawa. 1,200 ft. alt., almost 

 shut iii by mountains. It is 12 

 hours' journey by rail from Tokyo, 

 and is frequented by Europeans 

 at Christmas and New Year. 



Miyazu. Town of Japan, in 

 Honshu. Situated on Miyazu Bay, 

 an arm of Wakasa Bay, on the N. 

 coast, almost due N. of Osaka, it 

 is a small port with trade in beans 

 from Manchuria. The neighbouring 

 pine groves of Ama-no-hashidate 

 are one of the famous sights of 

 Japan. Pop. 9,000. 



Mizar. In astronomy, a well- 

 known double star. Called alter- 

 natively Zeta Majoris, it is the 

 middle star of the Bear's tail, and 

 varies from about the 2nd to the 

 4th magnitude. The larger star 

 of the pair is itself double to 



-pie examination, though 

 single in the telescope. Its com- 

 ponents are both bright and nearly 

 equal, revolving round one another 

 in 20 days 14 hours. 



Mizpah OR MIZPEH (Heb , a 

 watch -tower). Ancient name of 

 several high -lying places in Pales- 

 tine. (1) The place, unidentified, 

 where Jacob and Laban formed a 

 compact (Gen. 31 ). (2) A region at 

 the foot of Mt. Hermon (Josh. 11), 

 probably near the Druse village of 

 Mutelle. (3) Mizpeh of Gilead, the 

 home of Jephthah. (4) A town for- 



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tified by Ana, and chosen M his 

 residence by Gedaliah, governor f 

 Jerusalem, after its capture, 686 

 B.C. It has been identified with 

 Nebi Samwil, a nit . 2.935 ft. in alt., 

 l m \\\ of Jerusalem. It owes 

 its present name (" Pro|ilu-t 

 Samuel " ) to a Moslem tradition 

 \\lin h makes it the burial-place of 

 Samuel (cf. I Sam. vii, (1, 10), and 

 its Moslem mosque, formerly a 

 Crusaders' church, contains a ceno- 

 taph which the Moslems revere as 

 the tomb of the prophet. Nebi 

 Samwil was stormed by the British 

 troops on Nov. 21, 1917. 



M.L.A. Abbrev. for Member 

 of the Legislative Assembly. 



Mlawa. Town of Poland. It is 

 in the government, and 50 m. 

 N.E., of Flock, on the Mlavka, and 



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MOABITES 



case of things or words between 

 then) and some familiar object. 

 Technical verses, in some 



Moa. Reconstructed specimen of the 

 extinct flightless bird of New Zealand 



a station on the Warsaw-Mlawa 

 railway. The chief industries are 

 weaving, tanning, brickmaking, 

 and the manufacture of vinegar, 

 oil, soap, mineral waters, and agri- 

 cultural machinery. It was cap- 

 tured by the Germans Oct. 14, 

 1914, in their invasion of Poland. 

 Pop. 14,000. Pron. Mlahva, 



M.M. Abbrev for Military 

 Medal (q.i:). 



Mnemonics (Gr. mnemonike, 

 art of memory). The art of im- 

 proving the memory, especially by 

 artificial aids and methods. 

 Nearly all such methods depend 

 upon the association of ideas (q.v. ), 

 and are chiefly based upon the 

 principles of localisation and 

 analogy. The former, topology, 

 associates what is to be learnt with 

 the picture of a building or place 

 well known to the learner ; the 

 latter establishes an analogy in the 



(int.- meaningless (as the Bar- 

 bara, Olarent, of the logicians), 

 .tm I the substitution for numbers 

 of letters of the alphabet (1=1, 



- ), which are made up into 

 words and phrases, form another 

 kind of aid. The art of memory 

 is of very ancient date, and wan 

 regularly cultivated in the Greco- 

 Roman schools The Greek poet 

 Sinionide-, 6th century B.C., em- 

 ployed the topological method. In 

 the Middle Ages Raymond Lully's 

 Great Art was similarly arranged. 



Attention is now directed rather 

 to the psychological side of the 

 question as likely to suggest means 

 for the improvement of the memory. 

 Purely mechanical systems are 

 prejudicial to more intelligent and 

 scientific methods, although they 

 may be usefully applied to lists of 

 names and dates, and even to the 

 learning of foreign words, by insert- 

 ing an intermediate link in the shape 

 of a word or words, recalling by 

 association the two extremes. See 

 Memory Training. Pron.Neemonics. 



Mnemosyne. In Greek mytho- 

 logy, a daughter of Uranus, and 

 the personification of memory. 

 By Zeus she was the mother of the 

 Muses. 



M.O. Abbrev. for Money Order 

 and Medical Officer. 



Moa. Native name for the 

 Dinornis, a genus of extinct 

 flightless birds, which formerly 

 inhabited New Zealand. About 20 

 species have been identified from 

 their remains, the largest standing 

 nearly 12 ft. high, the smallest 

 being about as large as a turkey. 

 They had apparently disappeared 

 when European colonists arrived 

 in New Zealand, but the state of 

 preservation of the eggs, feathers, 

 and bones which are found in 

 abundance in Holocene deposits, 

 suggests that the birds had not long 

 been exterminated. They were 

 unable to fly, but their long and 

 powerful legs indicate that they 

 could run with great speed. They 

 had rounded, loosely constructed 

 feathers, and their eggs were of a 

 pale green colour. 



Moab. Territory occupied in 

 ancient times by the Moa bites. It 

 is an elevated tableland E. of the 

 Dead Sea and lower Jordan valley, 

 extending eastward to the Arabian 

 desert. The river Arnon and other 

 rivers flow westward through deep 

 valleys. See Dead Sea ; Palestine. 



Moabites. ' Ancient Semitic 

 people, closely related to the He- 

 brews. According to Gen. 19, they 

 were descended from Moab iiu-es- 

 tuou?ly begotten by Lot. They 

 were frequent!}' at war with Israel 



