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with honour. This at length offered in 1625, when he 
received an invitation from Chriftiern IV. king of Den¬ 
mark, to occupy the profefforfhip of liillory and politics 
in his newly-founded univerfity of Sora, together with the 
poll of royal hiltoriographer. He willingly accepted it, and 
removed to Denmark, where he continued to fupport his 
high reputation, and obtained the efteem of the king and 
court. He fuffered much from the Hone in the latter 
years of his life, which terminated at Sora in 1639. 
Meurfius made himfelf known to the learned world by 
many publications, in which he difplayed deep refearch 
and profound erudition. The moll valuable of thefe re¬ 
lated to the language and antiquities of Greece, of which 
fome of the principal were, 1. De Populis Atticis; Atti- 
carum Le&ionum Lib. IV. Archontes A.thenienfes ; For- 
tuna Attica ; Athense Atticae ; DeFeftis Graecorum ; all 
which have been admitted into the collections of Graevius 
and Gronovius. 2. He was the firft who publifhed the 
Greek text of the three books of Ariftoxenus upon Mu- 
fic, followed by the Greek treatifes of Nichomacus and 
Alypius, with notes; at Leyden, 1616,4to. 3. Gloffarium 
Grasco-barbarum, 4to. 4. Hiftoria Danica, folio. 5. 
Athenae Batavae, 4to. All the writings of Meurfius were 
publifhed collectively in twelve volumes folio at Florence, 
' . . . . . 
An obfcene work, entitled “ Meurfii Elegantias Latini 
Sennonis,” was written, according to fome, by John Wef- 
trea, a lawyer at the Hague, according to others, by Ni¬ 
cholas Chorier, an attorney at Grenoble, and was by way 
of jeft attributed to our grave profeffor. Moreri. Fabricius 
21 ibl ■ Grceca. 
MEU'RTE, a river of France, which rifes near St. 
Diey, in the department of the Vofges ; paffes by Raon 
l’Etape, Luneville, Blainville, Rollers, Nancy, &c. and 
joins the Mofelle five miles below Nancy. 
MEU'RTE, or Meurthe, one of the ten departments 
of the north-eaft region of France, formerly Toulois, and 
the fouth part of Lorraine ; bounded on the north by 
the department of the Mofelle, on the ealt by that of 
the Lower Rhine, on the fouth by that of the Vofges, 
and on the weft by that of the Meufe; in lat.48. 40. N. 
Its length is 26 French leagues, and breadth 16; its ex¬ 
tent 310 fquare leagues; and the number of its inha¬ 
bitants 365,810. Its capital is Nancy. 
MEURTRIE'RES, f. [French.] Small loop-holes, fuf- 
Jiciently large to admit the barrel of a rifle-gun or muf- 
quet, through which foldiers may fire, under cover, againft 
an enemy. They likewife mean the cavities that are 
made in the walls of a fortified town or place. James's 
Mil. DiR. 
MEV'SAK, a town of Arabia, in the province of Hedf- 
jas : fixty miles north-eaft of Vadilkova. 
MEUSE, a river of France, which rifes near Montigny 
le Roy, at a village called Meufe, in the department of 
the Upper Marne; paffes by or near to St. Thibaut, Neuf- 
chateau, (where it is joined by the Mouzon,) Vaucoleurs, 
Dommercy, St. Mihiel, Verdun, Dun, Stenay, Mouzon, 
Sedan, Dcncherry, Mezieres, Charleville, Charlemont, 
Dinant, Namur, (where it is joined by the Sambre,) Huy, 
Liege, Vifet, Maeftricht, Maefeyk, Ruremond, Venlo, 
Grave, Loevenftein, and Megen. It foon after divides 
into two ftreams; the upper one towards the north takes 
the name of Merwe, which name it feems to preferve, as 
well as that of Meufe, till it joins the German Ocean, af¬ 
ter paffing the illands of Holland and Zealand. 
MEUSE, one of the ten departments of the north-eaft 
region of France, compofed of Verdunois and Barrois ; 
bounded on the north by the duchy of Luxemburg, on 
the eaft by the departments of the Mofelle and the Meurte, 
on the fouth by thofe of the Marne and Vofges, and on 
the weft by thofe of the Marne and the Ardennes; in lat. 
49. N. It is 33 French leagues long, and 16 broad; its 
extent 318 lquare leagues; the number of its inhabitants 
is 284,703. Its capital is Bar-fur-Ornain, 
MEW 
MEUSE (Lower), lately one of the thirteen depart¬ 
ments of the region of France called the Reunited Coun- 
try, formed of a part of Gueldres, and of the territories 
of Liege, Maeftricht, and Venloo ; bounded on the north 
by Brabant, on the eaft by the department of the Roer, 
on the fouth by that of the Ourthe, and on the weft by 
that of the Dyle, and that of the Two Nethes ; in lat. 50. 
50. N. Its territory comprehended 190 fquare leagues, 
and contained 232,662 inhabitants or, according to Haf- 
fenfratz, 216,566. Its capital is Maeftricht. This Re¬ 
united Country was again difunited in the year 1815; 
and we believe it belongs at prefent to the newly-formed 
Kingdom of the Netherlands. 
MEU'SELWITZ, a town of Saxony, in the principa¬ 
lity of Altenburg : feven miles north-weft of Altenburg. 
MEU'SNET, a town of France, in the department of 
the Indre : fix miles fouth of Ilfoudun, and eleven eaft 
of -Ghateauroux. 
MEUTANG', f. The name of a flower much efteemed 
by the Chinefe, which, on that account* they call the 
king of flowers. It is larger than our role, and imitates 
its figure, only its leaves are more expanded. As its fmell 
comes lhort of that of the role, fo in beauty the rofe is 
outdone by it. It has no thorns; and its colour is a 
mixture of w'hite with purple, but fo as to incline moft 
to white ; yet fometimes there are found reddifh and yel¬ 
low ones. The tree it grows on is not unlike our alder- 
tree, and is cultivated throughout that large empire with 
great care, being covered in the fummer-time with afhade 
to defend it from the fcorching heat of the fun. We de- 
fcribe it under this name, as we are not aware that bota¬ 
nical writers have afligned it a place in the lyftematical 
arrangement. 
MEU'VY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Upper Marne : feven miles fouth of Bourmont. 
MEUX, a village in the eaft riding of Yorkfhire, to the 
eaft of Beverley, in a very healthful fituation. After the 
Conqueft, a colony from a town of that name in Normandy, 
belonging to the earl of Albemarle and Holdernefs, fet¬ 
tled here ; and an abbey was founded by him, where the 
monks at firft earned their bread by the fweat of their 
brow, but were not long after plentifully endowed by 
the earl, &c. with lands and revenues ; and fo continued 
till the general diffolution of monafteries. 
MEUX (Le), a town of France, in the department of 
the Oife : five miles fouth-weft of Compiegne. 
MEV'Y, f. [a word formerly ufed for mavis.] The 
thrulh: 
About his fides a thoufand feaguls bred, 
The mevtj and the halcyon. W. Brown. 
MEW, f. [mue, Fr. The word mue denotes a change ; 
“ hence any calling of the coat or Ikin, as the muing of a 
hawk.” Cotgrave. Then it came to denote a cage, in 
which the hawk was kept till he had moulted ; and laftly 
a cage in general.] A cage for hawks. — The King’s Mews 
at Charing Crofs is the place where formerly the king’s 
hawks were kept. Todd's Johnfqn. —By her beddes head 
lhe made a mew. Chaucer's Squire's Talc. —A cage ; an in- 
clolure; a place where any thing is confined : 
Forth-coming from her darklome mew, 
Where fhe all day did hide her hated hew. Spenfer. 
[Maep, Sax.] A fea-fowl.—Among the firft fort we reckon 
coots, landerlings, and meawes. Carew. 
The veffel flicks, and Ihews her open’d fide, 
And on her ihatter’d mall the mews in triumph ride. 
Dry den. 
To MEW, v. a. To flrat up ; to confine ; to imprifon ; 
to indole.—It is not poflible to keep a young gentleman 
from vice by a total ignorance of it, unlels you will all his 
life mew him up in a clofet, and never let him go into com¬ 
pany. Locke. 
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