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the twelfth century, a Walachian colony came from 
Tranfilvania, and fettled in this country. Their leader, 
named Bogdan, eftablifhed their civil and eccleiiaftjcal go¬ 
vernment; and, for the fupport of the latter, obtained an 
archbifhop and other ecclefiaftics from the patriarch of 
Conftantinople. He was the firft prince of Moldavia, and 
laid the foundation of the principal towns, for which rea- 
fon the country was called from him Bogdania. This 
country has a prince or waywode of its own, who is all'o 
ftyled liofpodar, and is a vaflal of the Ottoman Porte, to 
which he is obliged to pay an annual tribute. 
Moldavia is~ divided into Upper and Lower. Upper 
Moldavia reaches almoil to Jafly, being bounded towards 
the eaft by the river Dniefter, to the north partly by that 
Itream and partly by Poland, and weltward by Tranfilvania. 
Lower Moldavia borders to the weft upon the mountains 
of Tranfilvania ; its fouthern boundary is the Danube ; 
to the fouth-eaft it is bounded by Beffarabia, and to the 
eaft by the Dniefter. Jafly is the capital. 
MOLDA'VIAN, adj. Belonging to Moldavia, brought 
from Moldavia. 
MOLDA'VIAN, f. A native of Moldavia. 
MOLDAV'ICA, J\ in botany. See Dracocephalum. 
MOLDAVJT'ZA, a town of European Turkey, in 
Moldavia : forty miles weft of Suczava. 
MOL'DEBACH, a river of Saxony, which runs into 
the Unftrutt three miles north-eaft of Weiflenfee. 
MO'LDWARP. See Mouldwarp. 
MOLE, f. A little beaft that works under ground.— 
See Talpa. — Bloles ha.\e perfect eyes, and holes for them 
through the Ikin, not much bigger than a pin’s head. Ray 
on Creation. 
Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; 
Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave. Pope. 
MOLE, f. [from mal, Sax. a fpot.] A natural fpot or 
dilcolouratlon of the body.—To nourilh hair upon the 
moles of the face, is the perpetuation of a very antient 
cuftom. Brown's Vulgar Err ours. —Such in painting are 
the warts and moles, which, adding a likenefs to the face, 
are not therefore to be omitted. Dryden. —The peculiari¬ 
ties in Homer are marks and moles, by which every com¬ 
mon eye diftinguilhes him. Pope. 
MOLE, J'. [mole, Fr. molen, Teut. mola, Lat.] A mif- 
Ihapen mafs of hard flefli, fometimes generated in the 
wombs of women, inftead of a foetus ; called alio a fa/je 
conception. It is, however,-a very rare production ; what 
is called a mole by women being generally found on exa¬ 
mination to be nothing more than coagulated blood. The 
following appears to approach neareft to what the ancients 
conceived to be a mole. A woman, about twenty-feven 
years of age, was delivered of a female feetus, and its pla¬ 
centa, in which nothing uncommon was obferved ; and, 
although the uterus remained of an unufual lize, yet, the 
pains not re-commencing, there was no fufpicion enter¬ 
tained but that its bulk was occafioned by coagulated 
blood. On the third day the pains became violent, and 
this monfter was born. It lhape was fpherical, but fome- 
what flattened. It meafured in its largeft diameter eight 
inches, and weighed about eighteen ounces. It received 
its nourilhment by an umbilical cord, to which was at¬ 
tached a portion of membranes; and, although no pla¬ 
centa was found, it is probable it had a fmall one, and 
that it was inclofed in its own involucrum. It was com¬ 
plete^ covered with a cuticula; and, a little above the part 
where the navel-ftring terminated, there was a hairy fcalp 
covering a bony prominence, fomewhat refembling the 
arch of the cranium. On difleftion it was found to be 
plentifully fupplied with blood-velTels, proceeding from 
the navel-ftring, and branching through every part of it. 
It had a fmall brain, and nerves palling from thence through 
the foramina of the bones; but no relemblance of any 
thoracic or abdominal vifeera. The reft of its bulk was 
made up of fat. This was inferred, with the plate of the 
external appearance of the objeft, in the feventy-firft vo¬ 
lume of the Philofophical Tranfa&ions. 
Vol. XV. No. 1071. 
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MOLE, f. [from moles, Lat. mole, Fr.] A mound ; a 
dyke.—The great quantities of ftones dug out of the 
rock could not eafily conceal themfelves, had they not 
been confumed in the moles and buildings of Naples. Ad- 
difon on Italy. 
Bid the broad arch the dangerous flood contain, 
The mole projefted break the roaring main. Pope. 
Mole, among the Romans, was alfo ufed for a kind of 
maufoleum, built in manner of a round tower on a fquare 
bafe, infulate, encompafled with columns, and covered 
with a dome. The mole of the emperor Adrian, now the 
caille of St. Angelo, was the greateft and moft ftately of all 
the moles. It was crowned with a brazen pine-apple, where¬ 
in was a golden urn containing the alhes of the emperor. 
To MOLE, v. n. To clear the ground from mole-hills. 
Yorkfliire. Pcgge. 
MOLE, a river of England, which rifes on the borders 
of Suflex, and, crofting the county of Surry from fouth to 
north, runs into the Thames oppofite Hampton Court. 
This river is laid to hide itfelf under-ground in its courfe ; 
but, according to the judicious continuator of Camden, 
in reality the Swallows, a traft of foft low ground, for 
near two miles, in very dry feafons ablorb the wafte-water 
in caverns, on the fides of the banks, but not fo as to pre¬ 
vent a conftant ftream from taking its courfe in an open 
channel above-ground, winding round in the valleys from 
Dorking to Leatherhead, except in a very dry fummer, 
though not of that breadth and current as when it crofi.es 
the road at Mickleham, beyond which, at Burford-bridge, 
its channel is fometimes dry in fuch feafons. In deeds of 
the time of Henry VIII. it is called Emley-river, and 
gives name to the hundred. 
MO'LE-CAST, f. Hillock call up by a mole.—111 
Spring let the mole-cajls be fpread, becaufe they hinder 
the mowers. Mortimer's Huff. 
MO'LE-CATCHER, J\ One whofe employment is to 
catch moles; 
Get moule-catcher cunningly moule for to kill, 
And harrow and eaft abroad every hill. Puffer's Huff. 
MOLE-CRICK'ET. See Gryllus gryllotalpa. 
MO'LE-HILL, f. Hillock thrown up by the mole work¬ 
ing under ground. It is ufed proverbially in hyperboles, 
or companions from fomething fmall.—A churchwarden, 
to exprefs St. Martin’s in the Fields, caufed to be engraved 
a martin fitting upon a mole-hill between two trees. Pea~ 
chain on Blazoning. —Our politician, having baffled con¬ 
fluence, rauft not be nonplufed with inferior obligations ; 
and, having leapt over fuch mountains, lie down before a 
mole-hill. South's Sermons. 
Strange ignorance, that the lame man who knows 
How far yon mount above this mole-hill (hows. 
Should not perceive a difference as great 
Between fmall incomes and a vaft eftate ! Dryden's Juv. 
MOLE St. NICH'OLAS. See Cape St. Nicholas. 
MO'LE-PLOUGH, f. An inftrument lately invented 
for draining land. 
MO'LE-TR ACK,_/i Courfe of the mole under-ground, 
—The pot-trap is a deep earthen veflel fet in the ground, 
with the brim even with the bottom of the mok-trachs. 
Mortimer. 
MO'LE-TRAP, f. A trap contrived for the purpofe of 
taking and deftroying moles. 
MO'LECH. See Moloch. 
MO'LECOP, or Mow'cop, a village in Staffordfhire, 
on the borders of Chelhire, towards Congleton; where 
grindftones are dug. 
MO'LECULE, j'. [molecula, Lat.] A fmall mafs or 
portion of any body.—I could never fee the difference 
between the antiquated fyftem of atoms, and Bufton’s or¬ 
ganic molecules. Paley's Nat. Theology. 
MO'LEDIN, a river of Carinthia, which runs into the 
Geil near Mauten. 
MOLEE'AH, a town of Bengal: fifty-four miles weft- 
north-weft of Midnapour. 
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