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wherein you have particularly fpecified the ingenious per¬ 
formances of the lion-tippers, the dancing-mailers, and 
the tumblers. Spectator, N° 33s. 
MOHR, a town of Germany, in the county of Hoya: 
five miles well of Hoya. 
MOHRAU', a town of Silefia, in the principality of 
Neifle, near a river of the fame name : twenty-eight miles 
fouth of Neiffe. 
MOHRAU', a river of Silefia, which rifes near Bork- 
endorf, in the principality of Niefle, and runs into the 
Billau near the town of Mohrau. 
MO'HRENDORF, a town of Germany, in the princi¬ 
pality of Culmbach -. three miles north of Erlang. 
MO'HRIA, f. [named by D’\ Swartz after his friend 
Dr. D. M. //. Mohr, of Kiel, the coadjutor of profellbr 
Weber in feveral excellent botanical publications, parti¬ 
cularly refpefting the clafs Cryptogamia.] In botany, a 
genus of the clafs cryptogamia, order filices, or ferns. 
Mohria thurifraga, or incenfe-fern, the only fpecies 
delcribed, appears to be our Adiantum caffrorum, vol. i. 
p. 1 1 5. 
MO'HRIN, a town of Brandenburg, in the New Mark: 
twenty miles north of Cullrin, and eighteen fouth-well 
. of Baerwalde. Lat. 5a. 54. N. Ion. 14.. 31. E. 
MOHRUN'GEN, a town of Prulfia, in the province of 
Oberland, fituated on a lake of the fame name, which al- 
moll furrounds it. As this little town lies in the road 
to Poland, it is much frequented by Itrangers. In the 
year 1697, it was entirely detlroyed by fire ; but has fince 
been rebuilt to greater advantage. The old caftle was 
formerly a convent, belonging to the Teutonic order, and 
together with the town mull have fullered greatly in the 
many wars in which thofe knights were concerned. In 
3410, it was taken by the Poles; and, in 1461, it was 
retaken by the Teutonic knights; but, in 1520, it was 
burnt by the former. It is fifty-five miles fouth-fouth- 
well of Koniglberg, and fifty-lix foutli-eall of Dantzic. 
Lat. 53. 51. N. Ion. 19. 51. E. 
MOHULBUC'TILUM, a river of Pennfylvania, which 
runs into the river Allegany in lat. 40. 58. N. Ion. 79. 28.W, 
MOHU'N, a town of Hindoollan, in the circar of Kitch- 
wara: ten miles fouth of Budawar. 
MOHU'N, a town of Hindoollan, in Oude: fixteen 
miles north-eall of Cawnpour. 
MOKUNGUR', a town of Hindoollan, in the circar of 
Gohud : eighteen miles fouth-well of Narwa. 
MOHU'R, /’. A coin in the Ealt Indies. Gold mohurs, 
fometimes called gold rupees, are llruck at the mint of 
.Calcutta, as well as Sicca rupees, called filver rupees; 
fifteen of the latter are, by regulation, to pafs for one of 
the former. The value of the gold mohurs has under¬ 
gone coniiderable variations at different periods. At 
prefent the weight of the mohur is 13-28 mafia, or 190-894 
grains, and its finenefs 23!^ carats, containing 189-462 
grains of fine gold; and it is, therefore, worth il. 13s. 6£d. 
Iterling. 
MOHURBUN'GE, a province of Hindoollan, fouth- 
well of Bengal. 
MOHIL'NA, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Minlk: thirty-fix miles fouth-fouth-weil of Minlk. 
MOI'A, a town of Naples, in Principato Citra: eigh¬ 
teen miles fouth-fouth-well of Cangiano. 
MOJA'BRA, a town of Africa, in Tripoli: ten miles 
eall of Augela. 
MOJAI'SKE, a dillri6l-town of Rulfia, comprehended 
within the government of Mofcow, in the high road be¬ 
tween Mofcow and Smolenlko ; 70 miles from the former, 
and 216 from the latter. 
MOJ AN', an iiland in the Baltic, belonging to Sweden. 
Lat. 39. 22. N. Ion. 18.45. E. 
MOJA'RA, a town of South America, in the province 
of Tucuman: eighteen miles north of St. Salvador de 
jugui. 
MOIDE'NA, a town of Bengal; tw-enty miles fouth of 
Kilhenagur. 
M O I 
To MOI'DER, v. a. To puzzle; to perplex. So ufed 
in the north ol England. Dr. Johnfon merely gives, on 
the authority of Ainfworth, the participle moidered, which 
is properly, he fays, moddered or mudded, and means 
crazed. By moddered, which however is not an Englilh 
word, we may fuppofe an allulion to the Teut. moddelen , 
modden, to toil in the mud. In fome parts of England, 
as in Gloucellerlhire and Shroplhire, the w-ord is moiiher, 
or moyther: and means to confound; to tire out; to 
dillract. Todd. 
MOIDIEU', a towm of France, in the department of 
the Here: fix miles eall of Vienne. 
MOIDO'RE, J'. [ moeda cl'oro, Portuguefe; moneta de 
auro, Latin ; coins of gold.] A Portugal coin, rated at 
one pound feven fhillings. 
MOIESUR', a river of Arabia, which runs into the 
fea at Oman. 
MOI'F.TY, f. [ moitie , Fr.] Half; one of tw-o equal 
parts.—This company being divided into two equal moie¬ 
ties, the one before, the other fince, the coming of Chrilt; 
that part which, fince the coming of Chrilt, partly hath 
embraced, and partly ihall embrace, the Chriltian religion, 
we term as by a more proper name, the Church of Chrilt. 
Hooker. —The militia was fettled, a moiety of which lliould 
be nominated by the king, and the other moiety by the 
parliament. Clarendon. 
The death of Antony 
Is not a fingle doom ; in that name lay 
A moiety of the world. Shahejpeeire. 
Touch’d with human gentlenefs and love, 
Forgive a moiety of the principal. Shaliejpeare. 
MOIGOL'SCHAR, a cape of Rufiia, on the north-well 
coall of Nova Zembla. Lat. 72. 40. N. Ion. 52. 14. E. 
MOI'KA, a river of Rulfia, which runs from the right 
of the Fontanka, not far below its departure from the 
Neva, and runs almoll parallel with it, into w’hich it falls 
to the left of the Great Neva, clofe above its mouth. 
To MOIL, v. a. [ mouiller , Fr. or from the Sax. mal, 
a fpot.] To dawb with dirt; to defile.—All they which 
were left were moiled with dirt and mire by reafon of the 
deepnels of the rotten w'ay. Knolles. 
Then roufe thyfelf, O Earth, out of thy foyle. 
In which thou wallowed: like to filthy lwyne. 
And dolt thy mind in dirty pleafures moyle. Spenfer. 
To weary; [from moyle, a mule.] 
No more tug one another thus, nor ?ko/Z yourfelves; receive 
Prize equal. Chapman's Iliad. 
To MOIL, v. 71. To labour in the mire.— Moil not too 
much under-ground, for the hope of mines is very un¬ 
certain. Bacon's Efjays.— To toil; to drudge; to labour 
hard like a mule.—The name of the laborious William 
Noy, attorney-general to Charles the Firft, was anagram- 
matifed, I moyl in law. Howell. —They toil and moil for 
the intereft of their mailers, that in requital break their 
hearts. L' Eftrange. 
With thee ’twas Marian’s dear delight 
To moil all day, and merry make at night. Gay's Pajl. 
MOIL, /! [mal, Sax.] A fpot. Upton. 
MOIL, Moile, or Moyle,/ - A mule ; an animal ge¬ 
nerated between the horfe and the afs.—Ordinary hul- 
bandmen lliould quit breeding of horfes, and betake 
themfelves to moyles ; a beall which will fare hardly, live 
very long, draw indifferently well, carry great burthens, 
and hath alfoapace fwift and eafy enough. Carew. —The 
following examples allude to a cullom, at one time 
adopted by cardinals, of riding upon mules.—I fee he 
never was borne to ride upon a moyl. B. Jonfon's every 
Man out of his Humour. 
Let him make 
Vallance for his bed on’t, or demy foot-cloth 
For his moll reverend moile. Wehjler's White Devil. 
MOI'LAH, 
