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MOCKA'DOES, /. in commerce, a kind of woolteii 
V^rn ; weaver’s thrumbs. Scott. 
MOCK'AGE, f. Mockery. Not now in ufe. —A mere 
mockage, a counterfeit charm, to no purpofe. Burton's 
Amt. of Mel. . . Cc 
MOCK'ELN, a lake of Sweden, in the province of Sma- 
land : twenty-five miles fouth-weft of Wexio. _ 
MOCK'ENGRUND, a river of Saxony, which unites 
v?ith the Hennerfbach to form the Seydewitz. 
MOCK'ENDORF, a town of Bavaria: five miles eaft- 
irorth-eaft of Bamberg. 
MOCK'ER,/. One who mocks; afcorner; afcofter; 
a derider.— Let them have a care how they intrude upon 
fo °-reat and holy an ordinance, in which God is fo feldom 
mocked but it is to the mocker's confufion. South.—A 
deceiver; an elufory impoftor. 
MOCK'ERN, a town of the duchy of Magdeburg: fix- 
teen miles eaft of Magdeburg. . 
MOCK'ERY, J. Derifion; fcorft; fportive infult.— 
Grace at meals is now generally fo performed as to look 
■more like a mockery upon devotion, than any fblemn ap¬ 
plication of the mmd unto God. Law. 
The forlorn maiden* whom your eyes have feen 
The laughing-flock of fortune’s moclwries, 
Am only daughter of a king and queen. Spenfer. 
Ridicule; contemptuous merriment.—A new method they 
have of turning things that are ferious into mockery ; an 
art of contradiction by way of fcorn, wherewith we 
were long fithence forewarned. Hooker. —Sport; fubject 
of laughter—Of the holy place they made a mockery. 
2. Macc. viii. 17. 
What cannot be preferv’d when fortune takes, 
Patience her injury a mockery makes. Shakefp. Othello, 
Vanity of attempt; delufory labour j vain effort; 
It is as the air, invulnerable; 
And our vain blows malicious mockery. Sh-akefpeare. 
Imitation; counterfeit appearance; vain fliow.—Like 
rufty mail in monumental mockery. Skakejpcare. 
What though no friends in fable weeds appear. 
Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year. 
And bear about the mockery of woe 
To midnight dances. Pope's Mifcellasd.es w 
MOCK'JACK BA'Y, a bay of America, on the coaft 
of Virginia, in the Cliefapeak. Lat. 37. 24. N. Ion. 76. 
2.3. W.° 
MOCK'ING, J. Scorn; derifion; infult.—Therefore 
have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a 
mocking to all countries. Ezek. xxii. 4.—Others had trial 
of cruel mockings and fcourgings. Hcb. xi. 36. 
MOCK'ING-BIRD, f. An American bird, which imi¬ 
tates the notes of other birds ; the Turdus polyglottus. 
MOCK'ING-STOCK, f. A but for merriment. 
MOCK'INGLY, aclv. In contempt; petulantly; with 
infult; by mocking. Huloet. 
MOC'LIN, a town of Spain, in the province of Gre¬ 
nada: twenty-two miles fouth of Loda. 
MO'CO,/ A fmall filver coin in the Weft Indies, 
'■which in lome places is a quarter of the dollar, and in 
others an eighth. 
MO'COA, a town of South America, in the province 
of Popayan-. feventy miles fouth-eail of Popayan, and 
ninety miles eall-morth-eaft of Pafto. 
MO'COA, a town of Mexico, in the province of Cu¬ 
liacan, on the St. Sebaftian river: ninety miles north-weft 
of Culiacan. 
MOCODA'ME, a fmall ifland near the fouth-eaft coaft 
of Nova Scotia. Lat. 4.54. N. Ion. 61.20. W. 
MOCOMO'CO, a town of the illand of Sumatra, on the 
fouth-weft coaft: thirty miles fouth-well of Indrapoura. 
Lat. 2-25. S. ion. 101. 12. E. 
MOCOMO'CO, or Little Oroonoko, a river of South 
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Amend, wflich runs into the Atlantic a little fouth of 
Oroonoko. 
MOCO'NE, a river of Naples, which runs into the 
Crate four miles north of Bifignano. 
MOCORPTO, a town of Mexico, in the province of 
Culiacan : feventy-two miles north-weft of Culiacan. 
MOCORI'TO, a town of New Mexico, in the province 
of Cinaloa: forty-five miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Cinaloa. 
MO'COS, feveral fmall iflands in the Indian Sea, near 
the coaft of Siam. Lat. 13. 50. N. Ion. 97. 52. E. 
MODAGHI'RY, a town of Hindooftan, in Myfore; 
thirteen miles north of Vencatighery. 
MO'DAIN, Ma'dain, or Maday'en, a town of the 
Arabian Irak, by the fide of the Tigris, on the fite of the 
ancient Ctefiphon. Herbelot fays, the Perfians aferibe its 
foundation to Sapor, and its enlargement to Chofroes, 
who built here a palace, drought to be the moft magnifi¬ 
cent work in all the eaft. In 637, this place was taken 
and facked by Said, Omar’s lieutenant. The riches found 
were immenfe ; and among other things were the throne, 
the crown, the royal ftandard, and carpet, of the ancient 
Perfian kings. It is twenty miles fouth of Bagdad. 
MO'DAL, adj. [module, Fr. modalis, Lat.] Relating to 
the form or mode, not the eflence.—When we fpeak of 
faculties of the foul, we affert not with the fchools theip 
real diftiu&ion from it, but only a modal diverfity. Gian . 
mile's Scepfis. 
MODAL'ITT, f. Accidental difference; modal acci- 
dent.—The motions of die mouth, by which the voice iS 
diferiminated,. are the natural elements of fpeech; and 
the application of them in their feveral compofitions, or 
words made of them, to fignify things, or the modalities 
of diings, and fo to ferve for communication of notions* 
is artificial. Holder .—See alfo the article Metaphysics* 
p. 239 of this volume. 
MQDA'NE, late a town of France, in the departmenC 
of Mont Blanc, fifteen miles eaft of St. Jean de Maurienne* 
containing 925 inhabitants. There are mines of iron and 
eppper near it. 
MOD'BURY, a market-town and borough in the county 
of Devon. The town confills chiefly of four llreets, run¬ 
ning in die direction of the cardinal points, and crofting 
each other at right angles. It is a borough by preferip- 
tion, but has loll its right of fending members to parlia¬ 
ment, having petitioned to be exempted from that burthen , 
as it was then confidered, in the reign of Edward I. The 
plea of exemption was the poverty of the inhabitantsi 
who were unable to pay their reprefentatives, as was cuf- 
tomary at that early period. Modbury is now governed 
by a portreeve (ufually ftyled mayor), two conftables, and 
feveral other officers, who are elected annually at a court- 
leet held at Michaelmas. AH perfon9 who poflefs any 
freehold widiin the borough are liable to be chofen; being 
confidered in the light of freemen or free burgefles. Even 
fo late as the commencement of the laft century, it ap¬ 
pears from die records, that the borough-court here took 
cognizance of all debts under forty fhilliugs; and in the 
reign of Charles I. the fame records fliow that the inlia-' 
bitants poflefled the authority of enrolling deeds in tire 
rolls of the borough. The chief lupport of the town is 
its woollen-trade, which was formerly much more confi - 
derable than at prefent. A great quantity of yarn wa 9 
likewife fpun here and in the neighbourhood about fifty, 
years ago, at which time a weekly market was held, dil» 
tinftly to facilitate the fale of that article. This market 
has long been difeontinued; but, to preferve the right, the 
bell Hill rings for the yarn-market at twelve o'clock. A 
plufh and hat manufactory have alfo been, eitabliftied of 
Late years. The petty feflicms for the hundred are held, 
here. Thurlday is the market-day for provifions, and' 
there is a fair on the 2 3d of April. 
The church of Modbury is a very fpacious and hand* 
fome building, lurmounted by a lofty lpire of later erec¬ 
tion than the reft of the edifice, On.tke fgiyjgaijjs. ftande 4 
