MOOSEHEAD 



by hunters who 

 imitate the cry of 

 the cow moose. 

 N o t withstanding 

 its great size and 

 clumsy appear- 

 ance, the moose 

 travels at great 

 speed and with 

 curious noiseless- 

 ness through the 

 densest forests. 

 It is mainly 

 hunted for sport, 

 but its flesh makes 

 good venison, and 

 its hide is con- 

 verted into 

 leather. See Deer ; 

 Elk ; Ice Age. 



Moos eh cad. 

 Lake of Maine, 

 U.S.A. The most 

 extensive lake in 

 the New England 

 states, lying on 

 the borders of Piscataquis and 

 Somerset cos., it is irregularly 

 shaped, measures 35 m. by 12 m., 

 and covers an area of about 120 

 sq. m. The Kennebec issues from 

 the W. side. At an alt. of 1,000 ft. 

 it abounds in fish. 



Moose Jaw. City of Saskatche- 

 wan, Canada. It stands on Moose 

 Jaw river, 400 m. W. of Winnipeg, 

 and 398 from Calgary, and is 

 served by the C.P.R., C.N.R., and 

 G.T.P.R. It is a railway and agricul- 

 tural centre with large stockyards 

 and manufactures. Pop. 30,000. 



Moot. Literal!}' a meeting, the 

 word being akin to meet. It was 

 used among the Anglo-Saxons for 

 meetings of freemen, and so we 

 hear of folkmoots, shiremoots, and 

 the like, while Witanagemot is 

 another compound. It survives 

 here and there in English in the 

 moot hall. Law students at the Inns 

 of Court call their debates moots. 

 See Folkmoot ; Witenagemot. 



Mopla OR MAPPILLA. Maho- 

 medan community, mostly in the 

 Malabar district of the Madras 

 prov., S. India. Numbering 

 1,046,800, they nominally descend 

 from 7th century Arab immi- 

 grants who married Dravidian 

 women. They resisted with 

 fanatical violence the early Por- 

 tuguese, British, and French 

 settlers. A Mopla rifle regiment, 

 after a brief existence, was dis- 

 banded in 1907. 



In August, 1921, a serious re- 

 bellion of the Moplas broke out in 

 Malabar state. The rebels de- 

 stroyed railways and looted 

 villages. The treasury at Man- 

 jeeri was raided, and several 

 towns, including Calicut/were in- 

 vested. Over 1,000 lives were lost 

 in the fighting. See India, N.V. 



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Moose. Specimen of the Alaskan moose 



By courtesy of the American Muieum of Natural Ilitlori/ 



Mopsus. In Greek legend, the 

 name of two famous soothsa3'ers- 

 (1 ) The son of Manto, the daughter 

 of Tiresias (q.v.) and Apollo. 

 Having built the city of Mallos in 

 Cilicia, together with Amphilochus, 

 the son of Amphiaraus, a quarrel 

 arose concerning the possession of 

 it, in which both were slain. 

 Mopsus had oracles at Colophon 

 and Mallos, and Mopsuestia is 

 named after him. (2) One of the 

 Lapithae. Son of Apollo and one 

 of the nymphs, he took part in the 

 voyage of the Argonauts, for whom 

 he acted as seer. He died during 

 the journey from the bite of a snake 

 in Libya. 



Moquegua. Maritime prov. of 

 S. Peru. It is bounded S. by Tacna 

 and W. by the Paciiic. Traversed 

 by the Andes, whose slopes are 

 fertile and well populated, it pro- 

 duces copper, silver, coal, marble, 

 sulphur, etc. ; the vine is widely 

 cultivated. Its area is 5,519 sq. m. 

 Pop. 42,700. Moquegua, the capital 

 is 68 m. by rly. N.E. of the port of 

 Punta Coles on the PaciSc, which 

 is connected by rly. Pop. 5,000. 



Mora (Lat., delay). Term in 

 Scots law for delay in pursuit of a 

 legal remedy disentitling a person 

 to relief by the courts. See Laches ; 

 Limitations. 



Mora (Dimorphandra mora). 

 Forest tree of the natural order 

 Leguminosae, native of British 

 Guiana and Trinidad. It attains 

 a height of 150-200 ft. ; its leaves 

 are divided into two rows of leaflets, 

 and the small flowers are com- 

 bined in dense spikes. The large, 

 woody pods each contain a kidney- 

 shaped seed. The timber is of great 

 value to the shipbuilder, being hard, 

 tough, and close grained like oak, 

 with no tendency to splintering. 



MORANE 



Moraceae. Botanical term for 

 the mulberry family, often included 

 in Urticaceae (q.v.). See Mulberry. 



Moradabad. Dist. and town of 

 India in the Rohilkhand division, 

 United Prov. The dist. is situated 

 on the plains E. of the Ganges. The 

 chief crops are wheat and millet. 

 The town is situated on the Ram- 

 ganga, and has small manufactures 

 in brass and tin. Area, 2,285 sq. m. 

 Pop. dist., 1,263,000; town, 81,200. 



Moraine (French). Rock waste 

 accumulated on the surface of a 

 glacier or ice sheet. Lateral 

 moraines are found each side of a 

 glaciet, and are formed from the 

 detritus which comes down the 

 valley sides. The uniting of two 

 tributary glaciers produces a 

 medial moraine. Beneath the 

 glacier or ice sheet is the ground 

 moraine or moraine profonde, 

 while most of the transport 

 material is piled up into a crescent- 

 shaped terminal moraine at the 

 melting end of the ice. See Glacier. 



Morality OR MORAL PLAY. Early 

 form of the drama ; which most 

 probably developed out of the 

 earlier mystery and miracle plays. 

 It is believed to have grown 

 into popularity in the first half 

 of the 15th century. The morality 

 differed from the miracle play in 

 that it was not concerned with the 

 presenting of an established Bib- 

 lical story with named characters, 

 but was rather a play enforcing 

 a moral truth or lesson by means of 

 personified abstractions. The fact 

 that such personifications ap- 

 peared in some of the miracle 

 plays suggests that in them may 

 be found the origin of the morali- 

 ties. Everyman, which allegorises 

 man's life and death, Mankind, 

 Youth, Lusty Juventus, Nature of 

 the Four Elements, Hickscorner, 

 and Magnificence, by John Skelton, 

 are notable examples. See Drama. 



Biblioijraphy. The Medieval 

 Stage, E. K. Chambers, 1 903 ; Eng- 

 lish Miracle Plays, Moralities and 

 Interludes, A. W. Pollard, 4th ed. 

 1914; English Miracle Plays and 

 Moralities, E. H. Moore, 1907. 



Morality Play Society. Eng- 

 lish society founded June, 1911, to 

 produce original Morality, Mys- 

 tery, and Miracle Plays, and other 

 modern plays of an ideal nature. 

 Its first production was The Soul of 

 the World; by Mrs. P. Dearmer, with 

 music by Martin Shaw, Dec. 1, 1911. 



Morane. French aeroplane 

 named after its inventor. In 1910 

 Morane built a monoplane very 

 similar to the Benoit monoplane 

 of that date. Later, in conjunction 

 with Dr. Saulnier, he built Morane- 

 Saulnier monoplanes which, at 

 the outbreak of the Great War, 

 were amongst the fastest and most 

 manageable, and were used by 



