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 ilTire. It is 11 slow reeling <)f till' 



earth's axis, cannm"" it to sweep 

 out a ciivle in the sky, 47 in 

 diameter, in a period of 20,000 

 It was discovered by 

 lli]ip:irchus. It enables us to fix 

 tin 1 d.ite \\h"ii the constellations 

 mapped out -and named 

 (iir.oiit LMOO B.C.), that bcin<; the 

 date \vhcn the south pole occupied 

 sin- eontre of the region left blank 

 by the early observers. 



Hililio'jruiitii/. The Moon, R. A. 

 Proctor, 3rd ed. 1886; The Moon, 

 T. (i. Miner. 1895; The Moon, 

 ruMMilrrfl us a Planet, a World, 

 imd n Satellite, J. Nasinyth and 

 rpenter, 1903; The Moon, 

 W. 11. 1'irkering, 1904; Tables of 

 the Motion of the Moon, E. W. 

 Brown, 1919. 



Moon, GEORGE WASHINGTON 

 (lsi!:{-1909). British critic and 

 author. He was born in London, 

 June 15, 1823, and privately 

 educated. A man of varied attain- 

 ments, he was chiefly known for 

 his writings on English grammar 

 and style, beginning with The 

 Dean's English, a vigorous criti- 

 cism of Dean Alford's A Plea for 

 the Queen's English. Similar works 

 were The King's English, and 

 Common Errors in Speaking and 

 Writing. He also wrote religious 

 poems, edited Men arfd Women of 

 the Time, and was the patentee of 

 various scientific inventions. He 

 died March 11, 1909. 



Moon, WILTJAM (1818-94). 

 British blind inventor. Born at 

 Horsemonden, Kent, Dec. 18, 

 1818, he became partially blind as 

 a child and totally blind in 1840. 

 He then devoted himself to teach- 

 ing blind children at Brighton, 

 using Frere's system of embossed 

 type, but the difficulties of this 

 induced him to invent another 

 system, which he perfected in 1845. 

 To facilitate the publication of the 

 Bible in his type ho invented a 

 process of stereotyping which 

 much reduced the cost of pro- 

 duction. So successful was his 

 system that he extended it to 

 foreign languages. His wife, born 

 I 'liii' I, had imagined horses as 

 standing upright on two legs. Moon 

 thereupon produced his pictures 

 for the blind in relief. He died at 

 Brighton Oct. 10, 1894. 



Moonlighters. Name given to 

 perpetrators of outrages in the 

 Irish agrarian disturbances of 



Moon wort, the two 

 branches of frond 



:. Fol- 

 lowing the re- 

 jei-timi by the 

 house of Lords 

 of the Com- 

 pensation for 

 D i s t urbances 

 Mill, which 

 waa to check 

 evictions and 

 to restrain 

 landlords, a 

 scries of out- 

 rages took 

 place, usually 

 at night. 

 Murder, cattle- 

 in a i in i n g , 

 arson, and pillage were frequent, 

 and the Moonlighters instituted a 

 reign of terror which lasted until 

 Balfour's Crimes Act of 1887. See 

 Coercion Acts ; Ireland. 



Moonrakers. Name applied to 

 natives of Wiltshire. It is traced 

 to a story of some countrymen who, 

 seeing the moon's reflection in a 

 pond, tried to rake it out. But 

 another version tells that they 

 were smugglers who, surprised 

 while dragging for hidden kegs of 

 brandy, baffled the excisemen by 

 assuming this simplicity. 



Moonstone. Semi - precious 

 stone. It is a translucent, colour- 

 less felspar, mostly orthoclase, 

 which is usually cut en cabochon, 

 but also faceted. It reflects a bluish 

 milky light, hence its name. It is 

 also known as fish's eye, wolf's eye, 

 and water opal. See Gem. 



Moonstone, TirE. Novel by 

 W. Wilkie Collins (q.v.), first 

 published in 1868. Turning upon 

 the possession of a wondrous 

 diamond, the highly intricate plot, 

 which abounds in dramatic situa- 

 tions, is developed in the succes- 

 sive narratives of the various 

 parties to the drama, and consti- 

 tutes one of the most powerful 

 detective stories in the whole 

 range of literature. 



Moonta. Township of S. Aus- 

 tralia. It stands on Spencer Gulf, 

 134 m. by rly. N.N.W. of Adelaide, 

 and has carried on copper mining 

 since 1861. Pop. 3,800. 



Moonwort (Botrychium lunaria). 

 Fern of the natural order Ophio- 

 glossaceae. A native of Europe, 

 and the temperate and cold regions 

 of both hemispheres, it has a 

 small tuberous rootstock and fleshy 

 roots. It produces a single annual 

 frond which is divided, one branch 

 bearing a double row of half -moon- 

 shaped leaflets, the other branch 

 having secondary branches which 

 bear rows of leathery spore- 

 capsules, ultimately splitting to 

 release the spores. Formerly it was 

 believed to nave the magic power 

 of loosening locks, bolts, nails, etc. 



Moor. Trad of poor, unculti- 

 vated land. In the United King- 

 dom, moors are chiefly used for the 

 ((lout mi/ <>f grouse and otbct game. 

 ( '"ii-id'TaMr districts in Yorkshire, 

 lme, and other northern 

 count ieH of England are moorland, 

 as are the deer forest* of Scotland. 



Moor, Siu KHKDKRICK ROBERT 

 (b. 1853). South African states- 

 man. After working in the Kimber- 

 ley diamond mines, 1872-80, be 

 settled in Natal, and in 1886 waa 

 elected to the legislative assembly. 

 Minister for native affairs, with a 

 brief interval, from 1893-1906, he 

 was identified with all movement* 

 furthering the self-government of 

 the state, anvl in 1906 became 

 premier. Attending the 1907 

 colonial conference of premiers, in 

 1910 he held, conjointly with the 

 premiership, the portfolio of com- 

 merce and industries in the cabinet 

 of South Africa. He was knighted 

 in 1911. 



Mcore, ALBERT JOSEPH (1841- 

 1893). British painter. Born at 

 York, Sept. 4, 1841, he studied 

 under his 

 father, William 

 Moore, and at 

 the York 

 School of De- 

 sign before 

 going to the 

 R.A. Schools in 

 London in 

 1858. He went 

 direct to na- 

 ture, sketching 



A. J. Moore, 

 British painter 



in the Lake district and the N. of 

 France. He did much decorative 

 work for churches and other build- 

 ings, including mosaic panels for 

 the Central Hall in the Houses of 

 Parliament. In 1883 he painted 

 his masterpiece, Reading Aloud. 

 In 1884 he was elected A.R.W.S. 

 His chief pictures include : Elijah's 

 Sacrifice, 1864; The Garden, 1870; 

 Blossoms (Tate Gallery), 1881 ; 

 Dreamers, 1882; Summer Night, 

 1890. He died Sept. 25, 1893. 



Moore, FRANK FRANKFORT (b. 

 1855). Irish novelist and journalist. 

 Born in Limerick, May 15, 1855, 

 he practised journalism in Belfast 

 and wrote 

 adventure 

 stories for the 

 young ; also 

 some verse, 

 Flying from a 

 Shadow, 1872, 

 and several 

 plays, before 

 making a hit as 



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a novelist in 1893 with I Forbid the 

 Banns. His gift of bright narra- 



