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MIZENHEAD', a cape on the eaft coaft of Ireland, in 
the county of Wicklow. Lat. 5a. 5a. N. ion. 9.4. W. 
MIZ'MAZE, f. [A cant word, formed from maze by 
reduplication.] A maze; a labyrinth.—Thofe who are 
accustomed to reafon have got the true key of books, and 
the clue to lead them through the mizmaze of variety of 
opinions and authors to truth. Locke. 
MIZ'MOR, /.’ [Spanilh.] A dungeon. Phillips. 
MIZNE'PHETH, in fcripture-hiftory, the mitre ufed 
by the Jevvilh high priefts. Whenever there is mention of 
the high prieft’s mitre, the Hebrew word made ufe of to 
exprefs it is always miznephet/i; and mygbaotli is ufed to 
fignify the bonnet belonging to common priefts. The 
rabbins fay the fame thing is meant by both thefe terms ; 
and that the bonnet ufed by priefts in general was made 
of a piece of linen cloth lixteen yards long, which covered 
their heads like an helmet or a turban ; and they allow no 
other difference to be between the high prieft’s bonnet 
and that of other priefts than this; that one is flatter, 
and more in the form of a turban, whereas the other worn 
by ordinary priefts rofe fomething more in a point. It is 
to be obferved, that the Hebrew priefts never appeared in 
the temple without covering their heads. And ftill at 
this day it is reckoned an incivility in the Eaft, and a mark 
of contempt, for any man to pull off his hat or turban to 
another, or to lhow his naked head before any one. 
MIZ'PAH, [Heb. a centinel.] The name of a place ; 
the name of a city. 
MIZ'PEH, [Heb. the fame with the foregoing.] The 
name of a city in the land of Ifrael. 
MIZ'RAIM, or Misraim, [Heb. tribulations.] The 
dual name of Egypt, ufed in Scripture to denote the 
Higher and Lower Egypt. It fometimes occurs lingular, 
Muzor. 2 Kings xix. Iftiiah xix. Micah vii. 
MIZ'ZA, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
MIZ'ZEN, or Mizen, f. [ynezaen, Dut.] The mizzcn is 
a mail: in the ftern or back part of a fliip : in lome large 
flaps there are two fuch malls, that ftanding next the 
main mall is called the mai w-mizzcn, and the other near 
the poop the bonaventure-r»i>^c«: the length of a mizzen- 
maft is half that of the main malt, or the fame with that 
of the main-topmaft from the quarterdeck, and the length 
of the mizzeu-topma.A is half that. Bailey .—A commander 
at fea had his leg fradtured by the fall of lxis mizzen- top- 
maft. Wijeman's Surgery. 
To MIZ'ZLE. See To Misle. 
MIZ'ZY, f. A bog; a quagmire. Aiyfworth. 
MLA'DA, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Bolef- 
law : four miles fouth-eaft of Benatek. 
MLA'DA-BOLESLAW. See Buntzlau, vol. iii. 
MLIN'SICO, a river of Sclavonia, which runs into the 
Drave fix miles north of Veronitza. 
MLIOWNOW'Y, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 
of Kiev : forty miles fouth-weft of Czyrkafy. 
MLLA'VA, a town of the duchy of Warfaw : forty 
miles north-north-eaft of Plozk. 
MLO'DE, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Kiev: 
eight miles fouth-eaft of Bialacerkiew. 
MNA, f. [Greek.] The mina ; a pound weight, but 
different in different places. 
MNA'KEB, a town of Arabia, in the province of Ye¬ 
men : twelve miles weft of Sana. 
MNA'SIUM, f. [M vuo-iov is the name of an Egyptian 
plant in Theophraftus, eatable like Papyrus, and of a very 
fweet tafte.] In botany, a genus of the clafs liexandria, 
order monogynia, natural order of enfatas, (junci, Jujf.) 
Generic characters—Calyx : fpathe two-valved ; valves 
ovate, terminated by a linear patulous leaflet; perianthium 
one-leafed, three-parted ; fegments lanceolate, concave, 
acute, margined. Corolla: one-petalled ; tube very fliort; 
border three-parted; parts lanceolate, concave, acute. 
Stamina : filaments fix, very Ihort, inferted into the tube; 
anthene long, four-cornered, terminated by an ovate, ex¬ 
cavated, acute, leaflet. Piftillum : germ three-lobed ; 
ftyle long, llriated ; ftigmas three, rolled Ipirally.— JEJI'en- 
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tied Charafler. Calyx one-leafed, three-parted ; corolla 
one-petalled, three-parted, with a very Ihort tube ; an- 
therre four-cornered, terminated by an ovate leaflet; germ 
three-lobed ; ftigmas three, fpiral. 
Mnafium paludofum, a Angle fpecies. It is a perennial 
plant, with a fibrofe woody root; the leaves are very long, 
narrow, ftnarp, fmooth, ftriated, perfectly entire, (heathing 
at the bafe and mutually embracing each other, and are 
narrowed above the flieath. The ftalks are feveral, naked, 
two feet high, ftriated, comprefled, margined, gradually 
dilating towards the top, and fpringing from the bofoms 
of the radical leaves. The flowers are collected within 
an involucre, and are pedunculated : the peduncle is 
imbricated with fquamules beneath the bafe of the calyx. 
The corolla is yellow. Native of Guiana; growing in 
marfliy woods, as its name implies. 
MNA'SON, a man’s name. Ails. 
MNE'ME-CEPHAL'ICUM,/ The name of a famous • 
compound ballam, faid to have been purchafed from a cer¬ 
tain Englilh phyfician by Charles duke of Burgundy, at 
the price of 10,000 florins. Some, who have been very 
laviih in its praifes, have affirmed, that it has a power of 
preferving in the mind the remembrance of all things that 
are paft ; but this kind of praife feems to be extravagant 
and unfounded ; infomuch, that we think it needlefs to 
enumerate the ingredients of which this famous balfam 
confifts. We fhall therefore content ourfelves with re¬ 
ferring to Sennertus’s account of it in his PraCt.lib. i. cap. 5. 
MNE'MON, a lurname'given to Artaxerxes, on ac¬ 
count of his retentive memory. 
MNEMON'IC, or Mnemonical, adj. [from mnemo¬ 
nics.'] Affifting memory-; as mnemonic tables.—Mr. Beal’s 
offer of fending to the lociety Caleb Motley’s mnemonical 
fcrolls, together with his explication, was accepted of. 
lii/i. Royal Soc. 
MNEMON'ICA, /! Rules to help the memory. 
MNEMON'ICS, J. Gr.] The aft or art of 
memory. See the article Memory, in this volume. 
MNEMOSIL'LA, J'. in botany. See Hypecoum. 
MNEMOS'YNE, in fabulous liiftory, a daughter of 
Ccelus and Terra. She married Jupiter, by whom the had ' 
the nine Mufes. Mnemofyne dignifies Memory; and there¬ 
fore the poets have rightly called Memory the mother of 
the Mufes, becaufs it is to that mental endowment that, 
mankind are hidebted for their progrefs in fcience. 
MNES'THEUS, a Trojan, defcended from Aflaracus. 
He obtained the prize given to the bell-failing veil'd by 
ZEneas, at the funeral-games of Anchifes, in Sicily ; and 
became the progenitor of the family of the Memmii at 
Rome. 
MNETH'EL, a town of Perfia, in the province of Chu- 
fiftan : 102 miles louth of Suiter. 
MNE'VIS, in mythology, the name of a fticred bull, 
conlecrated to the fun, and worlhipped by the Egyptians 
at Heliopolis. The worlhip of Mnevis gradually difap- 
peared, when Apis became the general deity of the coun¬ 
try. From the era in which Cambyfes overthrew the mag¬ 
nificent temple of Heliopolis, we may date the downfall 
of the worlhip of Mnevis. This Mnevis was, according 
to Bryant, a compound of Men-neuas , the lunar god 
Nevas, the fame as Noas, or Noah. The name relates to 
the fame perfon who, in Crete, was llyled Minos; and 
the fame alfo who was reprefented under the emblem of 
the Men-taur or Mino-taurus. Ant. Myth. vol. ii. 
MNIA'RUM, J'. [from/anapo;, Gr. molly.] In botany, 
a genus of the clafs monandria, order digynia,. Generic 
charadlers—Calyx; involucre four-leaved, two-flowered; 
leaflets ovate, acute ; the two lowelt united ; perianthium 
one-leafed, four-cleft. Corolla : none. Stamina : fila¬ 
ment one, (two, Soland.) capillary, eredl, fcarcely longer 
than the calyx, and inferted into the bale of it; anthera 
roundilh, grooved. Piftillum: germ inferior, oval, fcarce¬ 
ly angular, hard, longer than the calyx ; ftyles two, fili¬ 
form, gradually divaricating, the length of the caiyx ; 
lligmas limple. Pericarpium : none. Seed : one, oblong, 
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