MOL 
and others, Venus. Laftly, others take Moloch to be the 
Sun, or the King of Heaven. Moloch was likewifie called 
Mi/com ; as appears from what is laid of Solomon, that he 
went after Alhtaroth the abomination of the Zidonians, 
and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. 
MOLOCH'I, a town of Naples, in Calabria Ultra : 
tkreewniles north-eaft of Oppido. 
MOLODI'VE, a town of the ifland of Ceylon, fituated 
on a tongue*of land feparated by a narrow channel from 
the enlf coaft: forty-fix miles north of Trincomalee. 
MOLO'GA, a river of Ruflia, which rifes near Bezetzk, 
in the government of Tver, and runs into the Volga, near 
Mologa, in the government of jaroflavl. 
MOLO'GA, a town of Ruflia, in the government of * 
Jaroflavl, at the union of the river Mologa with the Volga : 
iixty miles north-welt of Jaroflavl. Lat. 58. N. Ion. 38. 
22. E. 
MOLOGNA'IA, a river of Ruflia, which runs into a 
lake fituated near Malitopol, in the province of Tauris. 
MOLOR'CUS, an old (hepherd near Cleons, who re¬ 
ceived Hercules with great hofpitality. The hero, to 
repay the kindnefs he received, deltroyed the Nemasan 
lion, which laid walte the neighbouring country; and 
therefore, the Nemaean games, inftituted on this occafion, 
are to be underltood by the words Lucas Molorchi. There 
were two feliivals inftituted in his honour called Molorchecc. 
MO'LOS, a town Arabia, in the province of Yemen : 
fixteen. miles north-north-eaft of Jerim. 
MOLOSS'E, or Molossus, /. A metrical foot, con¬ 
futing of three long fyllables.—There is the fmaller alcaic 
verfe with a molojj'e interpofed, in that noble place in the 
Revelation, which confilts offtrong'and harmonious mea- 
fures. Blackwell'sSacr. duff. — Molojfus, in the Greek and 
Latin poetry, is a foot coniifting of three long fyllables, 
as qudiri, contabant, virtntem. It takes its name either 
from a dance in ufe among the people called Molofli, or 
Epirotse ; or from the temple of Jupiter Moloflus, where 
odes were fung in which this foot had a great (hare ; or 
elfe becaufe the march of the Molofli, when they went to 
the combat, was compofed of thefe feet, or had their ca¬ 
dence. The fame foot was alfo called among the an¬ 
cients, Vertumnus, exienfipes, hippius, dy caniits. Chambers. 
MOLOS'SUS, a fon of Pyrrhus and Andromache. He 
reigned in Epirus after the death of Helenus ; and part of 
his dominions received the name of Moloflia from him. 
This country had the bay of Ambracia on the fouth, and 
the country of the Perrhsebeans on the ealt. The dogs 
of the place were famous, and received the name of Mo- 
lofjl among the Romans. Dodona was the capital of the 
country according to fome writers : others, however, rec¬ 
kon it as the chief city of Thefprotia. 
MOLR AUZEPOL'LAM, a town of Hindooftan, in the 
Carnatic : ten miles north-weft of Madras. 
MOLSCHLE'BEN, a town of Germany, in the princi¬ 
pality of Gotha : five miles north-eaft of Gotha. 
MOL'SEN, or Hohen Molsen, a town of Saxony, in 
Thuringia: twenty-eight miles north-eaft of Weimar, 
and fourteen fouth-weft of Leipfic. Lat. 51. 10. N. Ion. 
12. 5. E. 
MOL'SHEIM, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lower Rhine : ten miles weft-fouth-weft ofStralburg, 
and nineteen weft-fouth-weft of Haguenau. Lat. 4S. 32.N. 
Ion. 7. 34. E. 
MOLT, pret. of to melt. Olfolete: 
The furies flung their fnakie whips away, 
And molt in tears at his enchanting lay. P. Fletcher. 
MO'LTABLE, aelj. Fufible. JSotinnfe. Hvloet. 
MOLTCHAN'A PIAT'SKIA, a town of Ruflia, in 
the government of Tobolflc, on the Oby .• eighty miles 
fouth-fouth-eaft of Narim. 
MOLTCHANOV'KA, a town of Ruflia, in the go¬ 
vernment of Tobollk, on the Oby: ninety-two miles 
fouth-fouth-eaft of Narim. 
Vql. XV. No. 1071. 
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MO'LTEN, part. paff'. of to melt. —In a fmall furnace 
made of a temperate heat; let the heat be fuch as may 
keep the metal molten, and no more. Bacon. 
Love’s myftick form the artizans of Greece 
In wounded ltone or molten gold exprels. Prior. 
MOLTIFA'O, a town of Corfica: fifteen miles north 
of Corte. 
MO'LTING. See Moulting. 
MO'LTON. See Southmolton. 
MOLTU'RA, /.' in old records, the toll or duty for¬ 
merly paid by vaflals to their lord for grinding corn at 
his mill. 
MOLUCCA BA'LM. See Molucella. 
MOLUC'CA BE'AN. See Guilandina. 
MOLUC'CA I'SLANDS, iflands in the Eaftern Indian 
Sea, firft difeovered by the Portuguefe in 1511. Thele 
valuable iflands were formerly (aid to confift of no more 
than five, viz. Ternate, Timor, or Motir, Tydor, Machian, 
and Bachian ; but Amboyna, Bourro, Ceram, GiLolo, and 
feveral others, are now included in the name of Moluccas. 
The five former are not out of fight of each other, and 
lie all of them within the compafs of feventy-five miles. 
They are famous for producing feveral forts of valuable 
fpices, but efpecially nutmegs and clove?, and are under 
the dominion of three kings. Their coaits are rendered 
very dangerous by fands and (helves. They were former¬ 
ly lubjeft to the Chinefe ; fell next under the Javanefe : 
were, in procefs of time, fubdued by the Malayans ; and 
the Mahometans had begun to fettle on them, and convert 
the inhabitants to their religion, but a very little before 
they were difeovered by the Portuguefe. Theirchief riches 
confift in cloves ; they have alfo almonds, and coarle to¬ 
bacco. During their wars with the Portuguefe, they 
burnt all their clove-trees, retired to the mountains and 
deferts, and forbade felling any thing to that nation, on 
pain of death; a prohibition which reduced them to great 
extremity. Though they burnt the cloves out of delpair, 
their allies fo enriched the foil, that it produced cloves in 
greater abundance than ever, in a few years. Many of 
thefe iflands had their particular kings, but all fubjedt to 
the king of Ternate ; and they ferved under him to re¬ 
venge the death of king Aerio, who was treacheroufly 
murdered under the Portuguefe. This great king’s name 
wasCachil Babu, Aerio’s third fon. He allowed the Dutch 
to trade here; in 1599, entered into a drift friendlhip with, 
them ; and they aflifted him to (hake oft’ the yoke of the 
Spaniards and Portuguefe. 
MOLUC'CA NUT'S. See Guilandina. 
MOLUCCEL'LA, J\ [from the Molucca Iflanfls, of 
which one of thefe plants is a native.] Molucca Balm ; 
in botany, a genus of the clafs didynamia, order gymnof- 
permia, natural order of verticillatae, (labiatae, Ju[f.) Ge¬ 
neric characters.—Calyx : perianthium one-leafed, very 
large, turbinate, gradually finiftiing in a very wide, bell- 
ihaped, tooth-fpiny, incurved, permanent border. Co¬ 
rolla : one-petalled, ringent, lets than the calyx; tube 
and throat ftiort ; upper lip upright, concave, entire ; 
lower lip trifid; the middle fegment more produced, 
emarginate. Stamina : filaments four, under the upper 
lip, of which two are (hotter; antherse Ample. Pittillum : 
germ four-parted ; ftyle the lize and fituation of the fta- 
mens ; ftigma bifid. Pericarpium : none; fruit turbinate, 
truncate, in the bottom of the open caly>f. Seeds: four, 
convex on one fide, angular on the other, at top wide and 
truncate.— E(]ential Character. Calyx bell-fliaped, widen¬ 
ing, broader than the corolla, fpiny. There are fix fpecies. 
1. Moluccella laevis, or fmootli Molucca balm calyxes 
beil-ihaped, commonly five-toothed ; toothlets equal. 
Root annual. Stem three feet high, fpreading out into 
many branches, which are lmooth, and come out by pairs. 
Leaves roundifh, deeply notched on both edges, oppofite, 
on long petioles, lmooth, light green on both lides. , At 
the bafe of the petioles the flowers come out in whorls.; 
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