M U L 



MU'LIER. 1. In late, a married woman. 

 2. Lawful female issue born iu wed- 

 lock. 



MULI. In Scotland, a term almost sy- 

 nonymous with cape. 



MuLLAoiTAw'Ny. In cookery, a Coro- 

 mandel dish ; from the Tamul words mu- 

 lagar, pepper, and tanee, water ; as there 

 is no meat whatever in the dish, being 

 merely a kind of decoction of pepper 



MCI/LAS. The priests of Tartary. 



MCL'LER, from niola, a mill-stone. 1. A 

 stone with (sometimes without) a handle, 

 used for grinding colours and other mat- 

 ters on a large flat stone. 2. An instru- 

 ment used by glass-grinders, being a 

 piece of wood with the piece of glass to 

 be ground cemented to one end, either 

 convex in a basin, or concave in a sphere 

 or bowl. 



MUL'LET. 1. In ichthyology. See MUGIL. 



2. In heraldry, a figure, in addition to 



the family arms, made by the .junior 

 branches of a family, as the mark of their 

 cadence. 



MUL'LION, orMAN'Nos. In architecture, 

 the upright post dividing two lights in a 

 window. 



MULTIARTI'CULATE, Lat. multus, and 

 articulus, joint. In zoology, applied to 

 the antennae of insects, &c. composed of 

 a number of joints. 



MCLTICAP'SULAR, Lat. mtilticapsularis. 

 Having many capsules : from multus, 

 many, and capsula, a capsule. 



MCLTICARIN'ATE, Lat. multus, and ca- 

 rina, keel. Applied to a shell traversed 

 by many keel-like ridges. 



MUL'TIDENTATE, Lat. multus, and dens, 

 tooth. Applied to a part armed with 

 many tooth-like processes. 



MUL'TIFID, Lat. multifidus, many-cleft: 

 from multus, many, undfindo, to divide. 



MULTIFLO'ROUS, Lat. mulliflorus, many- 

 flowered : from mullus, many, and flos, 

 flower. 



MCLTILO'CULAR, Lat. multilocularis , 

 many-celled : from multus, many, and 

 loculus, a cell. 



MCLTINO'MIAL, Lat. multus, and nomen, 

 name. In algebra, an expression con- 

 sisting of several terms connected by the 

 signs + or . Called also polynomial or 

 polynome. 



MuLTipAR'TiTE,Lat. multipartitus . Hav- 

 ing many and deep divisions : from mul- 

 tus, many, and partitus, divided. Ap- 

 plied to leaves, &c. 



MCL'TIPEDE, Lat. multipes. an animal 

 having more than four feet : from multus, 

 many, and pes, a foot. 



MUL'TIPLE. 1. Lat. multiplex, many- 

 fold: from multus, many, and plieo, to 



fold. 2. In arithmetic, a multiple is 



a number which contains another num- 

 ber a certain number of times: thus, 20 

 is a multiple of 2 or 5 ; it is also a common 



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Miple of 2 and 5 ; but the leait common 



MUL'TIPLE POINTS. In analytical geome- 

 try, when a curve intersects itself, the 

 cutting point is called a multiple point. 



MVL'TIPI.E VAU ES. In algebra, sym- 

 bols which fulfil the algebraic conditions 

 of a problem when several different 

 values are given them. 



MUL'TIPLICAND, Lat. multiplicands,) 



MULTIPLICATION, Lat. multiplicatto, 



MCLTIPLICA'TOB, Lat. multiplicator, ' 

 from multus, many, and plieo, to fold. 

 Multiplicator is an arithmetical operation 

 by which any given number, called the 

 multiplicand, is repeated any number of 

 times or parts of a time, according as the 

 multiplicator is a whole number or a 

 fraction: thus, 12 multiplied by 3 is 36: 

 the number 12 is the multiplicand, 3 is 

 the multiplicator or multiplier, and 36 is 

 the product arising from the multiplication 

 of 12 by 3. Multiplication i< called simple 

 when "the terms are abstract numbers, 

 and compound when the multiplicand is a 

 concrete number. 



MCL'TIPLYIXG GLASS. A glass whereby 

 objects appear to be increased in num- 

 ber: otherwise called a polyhedron, being 

 ground into several planes that make 

 angles with each other. 



MuLTisiL'iauji. The 26th natural order 

 of plants according to Linnaeus, fromwui- 

 tus, many, and siliqua, a pod. The helle- 

 bores are examples. 



MULTISPI'RAL. Applied to univalve 

 shells exhibiting numerous narrow coils. 



MCLTISTRI'ATE, multus ; stria, streak. 

 Marked with many streaks. 



MUL'TIVALVE, from miMus, many, and 

 talca, valves. Multivalvular : having 

 many valves : applied to mollusca which 

 have, in addition to the two principal 

 valves, small supplementary pieces of 

 shell. 2. A multivalvular shell. 



MULTO'CA. The Turkish code of laws. 



MULTUN'GULATE, multus ; ungula, hoof. 

 The hoof of animals which is divided 

 into more than two parts. 



MTL'TORE, Lat. multura, a grinding. An 

 emolument given in Scotland to the les- 

 see of a mill for grinding corn. 



MCM. A sort of ale brewed from 

 wheaten malt: much used in Germany, 

 where it is called mumme. It is chiefly 

 brewed at Brunswick. 



MU'MIA. A variety of mineral pitch, 

 soft and tough like shoemaker's wax 

 when warm, but brittle in cold weather. 

 Found in Persia. 



MIM'MT. An embalmed body: Lat. 

 mwnia, from Arab, mum, wax. Bodies 

 dried in the sun, such as are found in the 

 sands of Libya, are also called mummies, 

 althoush the name appears to be properly 

 applicable to those embalmed bodiet 

 taken from the catacombs of Egypt. 



