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London; and died in the year 1760. He is known chiefly 
by “A Treatife on Miracles,” which was written in an- 
fwer to Chubb, and which, on many accounts, was 
thought well of by the late learned Mr. Hugh Farmer. 
Subjoined to the treatife on miracles is a poltcript, in¬ 
tended to vindicate the authority of the ancient fathers, 
in anfwer to what had been advanced by Dr. Middleton 
in his Free Enquiry. Le Moine publifhed alio A Sermon 
in Defence of Sacred Hillory, in Anfwer to Lord Boling- 
broke ; and Some other Sermons. He alfo tranllated into 
the French language Bilhop Giblon’s Paftoral Letters; 
the Trial of the Witnefles of the Refurrefition of Jefus ; 
and Difcourfes on the Ufe and Intent of Prophecy, by 
Bilhop Sherlock. Thefe tranllations are accompanied 
with curious and interelling dilfertations by the trans¬ 
lator. Gen. Biog. 
MOINEAU', f. in fortification, is a flat baltion, raifed 
before a curtain when it is too long, and the bullions of 
the angles too remote to be able to defend one another. 
Sometimes themoineau is joined to the curtain, and Some¬ 
times it is divided from it by a moat. Here m.ufqueteers 
are placed, to fire each way. 
MOINGT, a town of France, in the department of the 
Rhone and Loire : two miles South of Montbrifon, and 
fix north-welt of Sury le Comtal. 
MOI'NHO DIE'GO, a town of Portugal in Eftrama- 
dura : ten miles South-South-eaft of Santarem, and thirty 
north-ealt of Lilbon. 
MO'JOS, a town of South-America, and capital of a 
province in the viceroyalty of Buenos Ayres : fourteen 
miles north of St. Salvador de Jujui, and 150 South of 
Potofi. 
MOI'RA, a poll-town of the county of Down, Ireland, ' 
chiefly inhabited by perfons concerned in the linen-ma- 
nufadture, for which the neighbouring country is pecu¬ 
liarly favourable. White limellone is abundant in the 
neighbourhood. Moira gives the title of earl to the mar¬ 
quis of Haftings, of the Rawdon family. It is fixty-nine 
miles north from Dublin. 
MOI'RA’s SOUND, or Moira’s Strait, an inlet on 
the ealt coaft of the Prince of Wales’s Archipelago, in the 
Duke of Clarence’s Strait. Lat. 54. 58. N. Ion. of the en¬ 
trance, 228. 22. E. 
MOI'RANS, a town of France, in the department of 
the Ifere : thirty-three miles eail-fouth-eaft of Vienne, and 
fifteen north-north-eaft of St. Marcellin. Lat. 45. 19. N. 
Ion. 5.43. E. 
MOI'RAX, a town of France, in the department of the 
Lot and Garonne : three miles South of Agen. 
MOI'SDON, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lower Loire : fix miles South of Chateaubriant. 
MOI'SI, a river of Canada, which runs into the river 
St. Lawrence in lat. 50. 15. N. Ion. 65. 40. W. 
MOISLAI'NS, a town of France, in the department of 
the Somme : three miles north of Peronne. 
MOJ.'SON, f. [from the Fr. moijfmi, liar veil.] Ripenefs. 
Chaucer. 
MOISSAC', a town of France, in the department of 
the Lot, on the Tarn, near its conflux with the Garonne : 
nine miles South of Lauzerte, and thirteen north-welt of 
Montaubin. Lat. 44. 6. N. Ion. 1.10. E. 
MOIST, adj. [niofte, moite, Fr.] Wet, not dry ; wet, 
not liquid ; wet in a Small degree.—Many who live well 
in a dry air, fall into all the difeafes that depend upon a 
relaxation in a moiji one. Arbuthnot. 
The hills to their Supply 
Vapour, and exhalation dulk and moiji, 
Sent up amain. Milton, 
Juicy; Succulent. AinJ'worth. 
To MOIST, or Moi'sten, v.u. To make damp; to 
make wet to a Small degree; to damp.—The grounde doth 
raoyfte it. lip. Fi/her's Sermons. —After he had turned his 
face to the windowe, and dried his moijled chekes, he Spake 
to them in this forte. Cavendijh's Life of Wolfey.- —A pipe 
M O K 
a little moiftened on the infide, So as there be no drops left, 
maketh a more Solemn Sound than if the pipe were dry. 
Bacon's Nat. HiJ't. 
Write till your ink be dry; and with your tears 
Moift it again ; and frame fome feeling line. Shakefpeare. 
MOI'STENER, f. The perfon or thing that mqiltens. 
Sherwood. 
MOI'STFUL, adj. Full of moifture.—Her moyftful tem¬ 
ples bound with wreaths of quivering reeds. Drayton's 
Polyolbion. 
MOI'STNESS, f. DampneSs; wetnefs in a Small degree. 
—The Small particles of brick or llone the leaft moijlitefs 
would join together. Addfon's Guardian. 
MOI'STURE, /! State of being moilt; moderate wetnefs. 
—Set Such plants as require much moifture, upon Sandy 
dry grounds. Bacon's Nat. Hi ft. 
While drynefs moifture, coldnefs heat, refills, 
All that we have, and that we are, lubfilts. Denham. 
Small quantity of liquid : 
All my body’s moifture 
Scarce Serves to quench my furnace-burning heat. Shahefp. 
MOI'STY, adj. Drizzling : 1 
For moiftio blalts not half So mirthful be, 
As Sweet Aurora brings in Spring-time faire. 
Mirror for Magift. 
MOITORE'T de BLAINVIL'LE (Anthony), a French 
architedl and geometrician, was the Son of a notary at Pi- 
change, a village four leagues from Dijon, where he was 
born about the year 1650. His genius led him to the lludy 
of geometry and architecture ; in which Sciences he be¬ 
came an expert proficient, and Settled in bufinefs at Rouen. 
Here he acquired considerable reputation by his (kill as an 
artiSt, and by his ufeful and popular elementary writings. 
He was appointed Surveyor and gauger-royal of the baili¬ 
wick and vifcounty of Rouen ; under which office the 
public breweries of that city were included by a commif- 
iion from the king. He died at Rouen in 1710, when 
about Sixty years of age. He was the author of, 1. A 
Treatife on Gauging in general, with Inltrudtions for 
Meafuring MaSon’s Work, &c. which underwent different 
impreflions during the author’s life-time, and, after his 
death, was publifhed with improvements at Rouen, in 
1714, under the care of M. Hacquet, with the title of 
Blainville’s New Elements of Geometry. 2. A Treatife 
on the extenfive Commerce of France, for the Informa¬ 
tion of Tradefmen, 1698, 8vo. which after his death was 
reprinted, in 1728, with confiderable additions, in 2 vols. 
3. An Abridgment of the Art of Levelling. 4. An 
Abridgment of Spherics, with Tables of the Declination 
and right Afcenfion of the Sun, &c. 1700, 8vo. which was 
repeatedly printed, and in an enlarged form by M. Hac¬ 
quet in 1714. All thefe works were favourably received 
by the public, and became very popular. 
MOI'VRE (Abraham de). See Demoivre, vol. v. 
MO'KA, a town of Hindooltan, in Golconda: twenty- 
eight miles South of Adoni. 
MOKA'MO, a town of Hindooltan, in Bahar: forty 
miles north-ealt of Ramgur. 
MOKANRU'RIE, one of the Kurule illands, in the 
North Pacific Ocean. Lat. 50. 20. N. Ion. 155. 34. E. 
MOKATTAN', a town of Egypt, near Cairo. 
MOKE'IA ibn A'MER, a town of Arabia, in the pro¬ 
vince of Yemen : twenty-two miles north-north-eall of 
Chamir. 
MOKERAMPOU'R, a town of Bengal: twelve miles 
from Midnapour. 
MOKES of a net. The mellies. Ainjworth. 
MOKESS'ET, a town of the Arabian Irak, on the Ti¬ 
gris : fifty miles north-welt of Korna, and 116 north-welt 
of Ballora. 
MOKEY'A, f. A name given by the Arabs to thofe 
coffee-houfes which Hand in the open country, and are 
3 intended^ 
