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quantity or quality, thruft forth by the part mittcnt upon 
the inferior weak parts. Wife-man's Surgery. 
MIT'TENWALD, a town of Bavaria, in the bilhopric 
of Freyfing: ten miles north-north-weft: of Innfpruck, 
and twenty-eight fouth-fouth-eaft of Weilhaim. 
MIT'TENWALDE, a town of Brandenburg, in the 
Middle Mark: twenty-two miles fouth-eaft of Potzdam, 
and twelve foutb of Berlin. Lat. 52. 15. N. Ion. 13.32.E. 
MIT'TER, a town of Auftria : three miles eaftofRotz. 
MITTERAU', a town of Aullria: five miles weft of 
St. Polten. 
MIT'TERBERG, a decayed town of Auftria: ten 
miles weft of Grein. 
MIT'TERBURG, a town of Iftria, and capital of a 
county, which contains feveral churches and a convent; 
it is defended by a caftle, fituated on a rock : thirty miles 
fouth-eaft of Triefte, and fifteen weft of St. Veit. Lat.45. 
23. N. Ion. 14. 7. E. 
MIT'TERKIRCH, a town of Auftria, on the Naam : 
fix miles fouth-weft of Grein. 
MIT'TERSILL, a town of Saltzburg, on the Salzbach : 
thirty-fix miles fouth-fouth-well of Saltzburg, and forty 
weft of Radftadt. 
MIT'TIGAL, f. A weight for filk in the Indies ; con¬ 
taining fomething more than two drams. 
MIT'TIMUS. f. [Lat. we fend.] A writ for removing 
or transferring of records from one court to another. 
A precept, or command in writing, under the hand and 
leal of a juftice of the peace, directed to the gaoler or keep¬ 
er of fome prifon, for the receiving and fafe-keeping of 
an offender charged with any crime,until he be delivered 
by due courfe of law.—He is to be committed to the coun¬ 
ty gaol by the mittimus of the juftice, or warrant under 
liis hand and feal, containing the cauleof his commitment. 
JBlackJlone. 
MIT'TON. See vol. xi. p. 707. 
MITTWE'YDA, a town of Saxony, in the circle of 
Leipfic : ten miles fouth of Leiffhick, and thirty weft of 
Drefden. Lat. 50. 58. N. ion. 12. 52. E. 
MITYLE'NE, in ancient geography, the capital city 
of the ifland of Lefbos, which received its name from 
Mitylene, the daughter of Macareus, a king of the coun¬ 
try. Now Metelin, which fee. See alfo Lesbos, vol. xii. 
p. 527-8. 
MI'TYS, ft. [from the Gr.] The gummy fubftance with 
which a prolperous hive of bees is lined. Phillips. 
MIT'ZUZ, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Niphon : 
110 miles weft-north-weft of Jedo, and 160 ealt-north-eaft 
of Meaco. * 
MI'VA, ft in pharmacy, the pulp of quinces boiled up 
with fugar; a medicine in the form of a thick fyrup. Scott. 
MIUTUR', a river of Rufiia, which riles and loles it- 
felf in the defert; its extent about fifty-fix miles fouth- 
weft and north-eaft. Lat. 46. 50. tq 47. 24. N. Ion. 65. 34. 
to 66. 24. E. 
MI'US, a finall river of Rufiia, in the country of the 
Cofacs, which runs into the lake of Azoph near Taganrog. 
To MIX, v.n. [mipcan, Sax. mifckeu, Teut. and Germ. 
miftceo, mirus , Lat.] To unite to fomething elfe.—Ephraim 
hath mixed himfelf among the people. Hof. vii. 8.—To 
unite various ingredients into one mafs.—A mixed multi¬ 
tude went up with them, and flocks and herds. Exod.xu. 38. 
Air, and ye elements, the eldeft birth 
Of nature’s womb, that in quaternion run 
Perpetual circle, multiform; and mix 
And nourilh all things. Milton's Paradife Loft. 
To form of different fubftances or kinds.—I have chofen 
an argument, rnixt of religious and civil conliderations } 
and likewife mixt between contemplative and aftive. 
Bacon's Holy War. —To join ; to mingle; to confufe : 
Brothers, you mix your fadnefs with fome fear ; 
This is the Englifh, not the Turkilh, court. Shahefpearc. 
To MIX, v.n. To be united into one mafs, not by junc¬ 
tion of furfaces, but by mutual intromifiion of parts; 
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But is there yet no other way, befides 
Thefe painful paifages, how we may come 
To death, and mix with our connatural duff ? Milton. 
MIX'BURY, a village in Oxfordlhire, to the north-eaft 
of Somerton, on the borders of Northamptonlhire. There 
is a large ditch of an old fortification near the church, 
which, from its being called Beaumont, is fuppofed to 
have been a work of the Normans. 
MIX'CO, a town of Mexico, in the province of Gua- 
timala : twenty-five miles eaft of Guatimala. 
MIX'EN, ft. [Sax. what is mixed together.] A dung¬ 
hill ; a layffal.—The funne that fhineth on the myxene. 
Chaucer's ParJ'on's Tale. —That mixen of ill-contrived for¬ 
geries, which perhaps was made before Bede’s time. Bp. 
Lloyd's Hift. of Ch. Gov. 
MIX'EN-CART, ft A dung-cart: 
I thinke the clowne, that drives the mixen-cart, 
Hath better hap then princes, fuch as I : 
No ftorm of fortune calls him downe. Mir. for Map;. 
MIX'ER, f. One who mixes ; a mingler. Cotgrave and 
Sherwood. 
MIX'IAS, ft A foreign weight containing ten thoufand 
drams troy. Phillips. 
MIX'ING,/! The aft of mingling. 
MIXTILIN'EAR, adj. [mixtus and linearis, Lat.] Con¬ 
fiding of aline, or lines, part ftraight, and part curved.— 
Thefe three triangles are different from each other; the 
rectilinear CEc being lefs than the mixtilinear CEc, 
whofe fides-are the three increments above mentioned; 
and this Hill lefs than the triangle C ET. Berkeley's Anal. 
MIX'TION, f. [from mixl] Mixture; confufion of one 
thing with another.—Others, perceiving this rule to fall 
Ihort, have pieced it out by the mixtion of vacuity among 
bodies, believing it is that which makes one rarer than 
another. Digby on Bodies. 
MIX'TLY, adv. With coalition of different parts into 
one.—Not to proceed precifely, or merely, according to 
the laws and cuftoms either of England or Scotland; but 
mixtly, according to the inftruftions by your majefty to 
be fet down, after the imitation and precedent of the coun¬ 
cil of the marches, here in England erefted, upon the 
union of Wales. Bacon on the Union. 
MIX'TURE, f. [ mixture , old Fr. mixtura, Lat.] The 
aft of mixing; the Hate of being mixed.—O happy mix¬ 
ture, wherein things contrary do lo qualify and correft the 
one the danger of the other’s excels, that neither boldnels 
can make us prefume, as well as we are kept under with 
the fenfe of our own wretchednels; nor, while we truft in 
the mercy of God through thrift Jefus, fear be able to ty¬ 
rannize over us ! Hooker. 
I, by baleful furies led, 
With monllrous mixture ftain’d my mother’s bed. Pope. 
A mafs formed by mingled ingredients.—While we live 
in this world, where good and bad men are blended toge¬ 
ther, and where there is alfo a mixture of good and evil 
wifely diftributed by God, to ferve the ends of his provi¬ 
dence. Atterbury's Sermons. —That which is added and 
mixed.—Cicero doubts whether it were poffible for a com¬ 
munity to exift, that had not a prevailing mixture of piety 
in its conftitution. Addifon's Freeholder. 
MI'YUN, a town of China, of the third rank, in Pe- 
tche-li: thirty-five miles north-north-eaft of Pekin. 
MI'ZA, a river of Bohemia, which runs into the Mol- 
daw, near Konigiall, in the circle of Beraun. 
MI'ZA. See Miez. 
MIZ'AEL, a town of Norway, in the diocefe of Dron- 
theim ; forty-four miles north-eaft ofRomfdal. 
MI'ZAR, [Heb. little.] The nameof a hill. Pfalm xlii. 
MI'ZELL, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Boleflaw : 
nine miles fouth-eaft of Jung Buntzel. 
MIZENHEAD', the louth-weft point of Ireland, in the 
county of Cork : twelve miles weft-fouth-well of Skib- 
bereen. Lat. 51.23. N, Ion. 9.43. W. 
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