MORBIHAN 



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MORE 



Moraysuire county 

 council seal 



Forres, Rothes. 



coast i* approached. The 

 rhi.-f river* an- ill.- S|..-y Find- 

 In. in, 1,.1-M.'. ami Divie. There 

 are several small lakes; Loohin- 

 dorb U the largest ; Spyni.- 

 ' been drained, ia but a 

 fraction of its former size. Wheat, 

 oats, and potatoes are grown : 

 cattle, horses and pigs are reared, 

 while there 

 are valuable 

 fisheries. T he 

 co. is served by 

 the Highland 

 and G.N. of 8 

 Rlys. The chief 

 places are Elgin, 

 the co. tow n, 

 Lossie mouth, 

 Burghead, and 

 Grantown-on-Spey. In Aug... 1829, 

 the lower parts of the co. were 

 visited by devastating floods. To- 

 gether with Naimshire it sends one 

 member to Parliament. In Jan., 

 1920, the name of the co. was 

 formally changed from Elgin to 

 Moray. The chief antiquities in 

 the co. are ecclesiastical remains at 

 Elgin, Pluscarden, and Kinloss ; 

 ruined castles at Spynie, Lochin- 

 dorb, and New Duffus ;)and Sweno's 

 Stone at Forres. Pop.' 41,561. 



Morbihan. Dept. of France, 

 part of the former prov. of Brit- 

 tany. With an area of 2,738 sq. m. 

 it has an irregular and indented 

 seaboard on the Atlantic and is 

 contiguous with the depts. of 

 Finistere, C6tes-du-Nord, Ille-et- 

 Vilaine and Loire-Inf^rieure. Ex- 

 cept for the Montagnes Noires on 

 its N. boundary, there are few 

 hills ; the Landes de Lanvaux form 

 a barren plateau some 30 m. long, 

 running E. and W. The land- 

 locked gulf of Morbihan and Qui- 

 beron Bay, with the Vilaine es- 

 tuary, are features of the coast ; 

 Belle-lie and Groix are the chief 

 islands. The rivers include the 

 lower reaches of the Vilaine, and 

 the Blavet (canalised), Scorff, and 

 Auray ; the Canal de Brest tra 

 verses the dept. 



The generally unfertile soil ham- 

 pers agriculture, but rye, wheat, 

 potatoes, and some flax are grown. 

 Fisheries, especially of sardines, 

 are important, and industries in- 

 clude tin-working, slate quarries, 

 textile manufacture, engineering 

 and shipbuilding, fish-preserving 

 and oyster culture. The dept. 

 contains many prehistoric remains, 

 cromlechs, dolmens, etc., e.g. at 

 Carnac. Vannes is the capital, 

 other towns being Lorient, Ploernal, 

 Pontivy, Quiberon, Plouay, Auray, 

 and Hennebont. Pop. 678,400. 



Mordant. Substance used in 

 Eyeing to fix the colouring matters 

 in the fibre of textiles. Either 

 before or after using the dye the 



fabric is saturated with the m<>r- 

 il.int. \\liich acts by forming an 

 insoluble compound within the 

 fibres, rendering the colouring 

 matter permanent as regards 

 washing. There are two main 

 classes of mordants : ( 1 ) basic, used 

 where acid colouring principles are 

 concerned ; and (2) acid, em- 

 ployed for fixing basic colouring 

 matters on cotton. 



The chief basic mordants are the 

 metallic salts of aluminium (alum, 

 and aluminium tartrate and sul- 

 phate), iron (ferrous and ferric 

 sulphate, ferrous and ferric acetate 

 and ferric nitrate), tin (stannic 

 chloride), and chromium (potas- 

 sium bichromate). This class of 

 mordants is used for silk, cotton, 

 and wool, whereas acid mordants, 

 of which the chief are tannic acid 

 and sulphated oil, arc only em- 

 ployed for silk and cotton goods. 

 In using an alum mordant the 

 wool is immersed in an 8 to 10 p.c. 

 solution of alum with the addition 

 of from 2 to 5 p.c. of cream of 

 tartar to increase the acidity, and 

 the liquid is brought to the boil 

 and kept at boiling point for half 

 an hour. After cooling, the wool is 

 washed and then transferred to 

 the dye bath. Tannic acid is 

 much used for fixing coal tar 

 colours on cotton. See Dyes. 



Mordecai. Character in the 

 O.T. book of Esther. He dis- 

 covered Hainan's plot to exter 

 minate the Jews. See Esther ; 

 Haman. 



Mordent. Musical ornament or 

 grace. It consists of a brief alter- 

 nation of the principal note with 

 the note below it : 



See Musical Ornamentation, E. 

 Dannreuther. 



Mordkin, MIKAIL. Russian dan- 

 cer. Trained at the school of the 

 Marianski Theatre, St. Petersburg, 

 he made an instant success as 

 partner of Anna Pavlova (q.v. ) at 

 the Palace Theatre, London, 1910, 

 when his strong and virile style was 

 seen to advantage in such per- 

 formances as the Arrow Dance 

 and the Automne Bacchanalc of 

 Glazouno v. Mordkin appeared also 

 in Paris and the U.S.A. 



Mordred OR MOORED, SIR. 

 One of the Knights of the Round 

 Table in the Arthurian legend?. 

 In the King's absence Mordred 

 usurped the kingdom, and in the 

 laot great battle he is slain by 

 Arthur at the moment that he 



gives Arthur bit deathblow. In 

 some versions of the Legend be in 

 the lover of Queen Guinevere. See 

 Morte D' Arthur. 



Mordvin. People of Finnic 

 stock, mostly in the middle Volga 

 region of E. Russia. Numbering 

 about 1,000,000, beside* 33.882 in 

 Siberia and central Asia, they 

 comprise in the 8. the dark Mok- 

 sha, in the N. the blond Erzya. 

 Settled husbandmen and wood- 

 workers, their Finno-Ugric speech 

 is disappearing. Primitive nature- 

 worship survives under a veneer 

 of Christianity. See Finland. 



More. Fylke or co. of Norway. 

 It is situated between the Dovre- 

 fjeld and the Atlantic, and has a 

 long coast line indented by many 

 fjords, of which the Romsdal, 

 Halse, and Haro are the largest. 

 Most of the area ia part of the 

 plateau above 3,000 ft. alt. The 

 chief towns are Kristiansund, 

 Aalesund, and Molde. Fishing Is 

 the principal industry. The area 

 is 5,811 sq. m. Pop. 160,000. 



More, SIR ANTHONY (c. 1512- 

 c. 1576). Dutch portrait painter. 

 Antbonis Mor, also called Antonio 

 . Moro, was 

 I b o r at 

 ' Utrecht, was a 

 pupil of Jan 

 van Score 1, 

 . and was in- 

 * 1 1 u e n c e d by 

 | Joostvan 

 j Cleef. He was 

 "' admitted to 



Sir Anthony More, the guild of 

 Dutch painter Utrecht in 



1547, and went to Brussels in 



1548, to Rome 1550, and in 1552 

 to Spain, where he became court 

 painter to Philip II. He was in 

 England 1553-54, when he painted 

 a portrait of Queen Mary and 

 was knighted, but returned to 

 the Netherlands and was patronised 

 by the duke of Alva. He died 

 at Antwerp. His chief works are 

 Five Members of the Order of 

 S. John of Jerusalem, 1541 ; Two 

 Canons of Utrecht, 1544 ; Maxi- 

 milian of Bohemia and Mary of 

 Austria, 1652 ; Philip II and Mary 

 of Parma ; and Sir T. Gresham in 

 the Nat. Portrait Gall, London. 



More, HANNAH (1745-1833). 

 British author. Born Feb. 2, 1745. 

 at Stapleton, Gloucestershire, she 

 was the daughter of the village 

 schoolmaster. A precocious child, 

 her first considerable work was a 

 pastoral drama, The Search after 

 Happiness, 1762. Coming to 

 London in 1774, she became inti- 

 mate with Garrick, and later with 

 Johnson, Burke, and other literary 

 lights of the time. Garrick pro- 

 duced two of her tragedies, Percy, 

 1777, and The Fatal Falsehood, 



