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from each other: hence both the cables will retain the 
ihip in her Ration with equal effort again ft the aftion of 
the wind and lea. 
MOO'RINGS, J'. In fea-Ianguage, are ufually an alTem- 
blage of anchors, chains, and bridles, laid athwart the 
bottom of a river or haven, to ride the Ihipping contained 
therein. The anchors employed on this occafion have 
rarely more than one fluke, which is funk, in the water 
near low-water mark. Two anchors, being fixed in this 
manner in the oppofite fide of the river, are furnifhed 
with a chain extending acrofs from one to the other. In 
the middle of the chain is a large fquare link, whole 
lower end terminates in a fwivel, which turns round in 
the chain as about an axis, whenever the Ihip veers about 
with the change of the tide. To this fwivel-link are 
attached the bridles, which are Ihort pieces of cable, well 
ferved, whole upper ends are drawn into the Ihip at the 
mooring-ports, and afterwards fattened to the malts or 
cable-bolts. A great number of moorings of this fort 
are fixed in the harbours adjacent to the king’s dock¬ 
yards, as Deptford, Chatham, Portlmouth, Plymouth, &c. 
MOOTING POINT, a cape on the fouth coaft of 
the ifland of St. Chriftoplier: two miles louth-eall of 
Bafleterre. 
MOO'RISH, adj. Fenny; marih.y; watery.—In the 
great level near Thorny, leveral oaks and firs have lain 
there till covered by the inundation of the frelh and fait 
waters, and moorijh earth exaggerated upon them. Hale. 
No, Caefar; they be pathlefs moorijh minds. 
That, being once made rotten with the dung 
Of damned riches, ever after fink 
Beneath the Heps of any villainy. B. Jonfon's Poelafter. 
Along the moorijh fens 
(Sighs the fad genius of the coming ftorm. Thomfon. 
Belonging to the Moors; denoting Moors.—The weight 
of Moorijh wealth. Congreve .—Some tournament in the 
times of Moorijh chivalry. Swinburne. 
MOORKY'A, a town of Hindoollan, in the circar of 
Gangpour: ten miles north-eaft of Gangpour. 
MOO'RLEY, a town of Bengal, capital of the circar 
of Jeflore: fifty-five miles north-eaft of Calcutta, and 
feventy-four fouth-weft of Dacca. Lat. 23. io. N. Ion. 
90. 21. E. 
MOORPUN'KAY, f. A c u rl o lift y - conft r u ft e d boat, 
ufed in Bengal. Thefe boats are very long and narrow, 
fometimes extending to upwards of a hundred feet in 
length, and not more than eight feet in breadth; they 
are always paddled, fometimes by forty men, and are 
fteered by a large paddle from the ftern, which riles either 
in the ftiape of a peacock, a fnake, or fome other animal; 
the paddlers are direfted by a man who ftands up, and 
fometimes makes ule of a branch of a plant to regulate 
their motions, ufing much gefticulation, and telling a 
ftory to excite either laughter or exertion. In one part 
of the ftern is a canopy fupported by pillars, in which are 
feated the owner and his friends, who partake of the re- 
freftiing breezes of the evening. Thefe boats are very 
expensive, owing to the beautiful decorations of painted 
and gilt ornaments, which are highly varniflied, and ex¬ 
hibit a confiderable degree of tafte. 
MOORSHEDAB AD', a city of Hindoollan, in Bengal, 
fituated on the weftern arm of the Ganges, which is here 
very low in the dry feafon, about twelve miles from it, 
and about 120 miles above Calcutta. It was the capital 
of the Bengal provinces, until the eftablifhment of the 
Britifh power; ar.d -even long after, it was the feat of the 
colleftor-general of the revenues; being a more centrical 
fituation than Calcutta. This city was founded by Jaffier 
Khan, then called Minjkcd Culi, who removed the feat 
of government thither from Dacca, and gave his own 
name to the new metropolis. It is very large, but ill 
built; and its plan is fo very irregular, that it is difficult 
to eftimate the quantity of ground upon which it Hands. 
It is a modem city, and does not contain any magnificent 
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buildings, either public or private; nor was it ever for¬ 
tified, except by an occafional rampart thrown up round 
it, on the intrufions of the Mahrattas, in 1742. It. is 
now decaying, efpecially fince the removal of the board 
of revenue to Calcutta, in 1771. Lat. 24. 11. N. Ion. 88. 
26. E. 
MO.ORSOO'N, a town of Hindoollan, in Orifla: five 
miles north-eaft of Boad. 
MOORU'DE, a town of Hindoollan, in Dowlatabad s 
ten miles weft of Carmulla. 
MOO'RY ,adj. Marftiy; fenny; watery.-— In Eflex mmry 
land is thought the 1110ft proper. Mortimer. 
The dull the fields and paftures covers, 
As when thick mills arife from moory vales. Fairfax. . 
MOORZAN', a town of Africa, in the kingdom of 
Bambarra : feventy-five miles north-eaft of Sego. 
MOORZE'ELE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lys, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift 
of Courtray. The place contains 3650, and the canton. 
13,114, inhabitants. 
MOOSE, f. The large American deer; the biggeft of 
the fpecies of deer. See Corvus alces.—Are you llill of 
opinion that the American mooje and European elk are 
the fame creature ? White's Selborne. 
MOOSE-HEAD LA'KE, a lake of Maflachufetts, in 
the north-eaft; part of the province of Maine.- 
MOOSE HIL'LOCK, a chain of mountains in New 
Hampfhire, whofe funimits are generally covered with 
Blow. 
MOOSE I'SLAND, afmall ifland on the coaft of Maine, 
at the mouth of the Schoodiack. 
MOOSE LA'KE, a lake of North America. Lat. 52. 
40. N. Ion. 93. o. W. 
MOOSE RIV'ER, a river of Canada, which runs into 
James’s Bay, in Hudfon’s Bay, in lat. 51. 16. N. Ion. 80. 
56. W. There is a fort at the mouth of this river. 
MOOSE RIV'ER, a Ihort ftream in Grafton county, 
New Hampfhire, running north-eallerly from the White 
Mountains into Amarifcoggin-river. 
MOOSERA'I, a town of Hindoollan, in Bahar: five 
miles north-well of Bahar. 
MOOSHE'DA, a fmall circar of Bengal, bounded on 
the north by Dinagepour, on the eaft by Janguirpour, on 
the fouth by Bettooria, and on the well by Pooftole. 
MOOSS, a town of Germany, in the principality of 
Culmbach : five miles north-well of Hof 
MOO'SSEE, or Moosseedoo', a town of Africa, and 
capital of Gotto : 310 miles fouth-weft of Tombuftoo. 
Lat. 15.8. N. Ion. 0.16. E. 
MOOT, a town of Hindoollan, in the circar of Go- 
hud: eighteen miles fouth-weft of Kooch. 
MOOT, a town of Nubia: thirty-five miles fouth of 
Chiggae. 
To MOOT, v. a. [from mot, ^eraot, Sax. meeting, to¬ 
gether; or perhaps, as it is a law-term, from mot, Fr. 
Dr. Johvfon. —It is certainly from the Sax. moT, gemot, 
a meeting together; motian, to treat of, as well as to 
meet together; the Gothic nations, as Dr. Jamiefon ob- 
ferves, being accuftomed to meet for the purpofe of dij- 
cufmg public concerns. CgwcI, in his Law Diftionary, 
gives the Saxon etymon, but takes no notice of the 
needlels French. Toddi] To plead a mock caufe; to Hate 
a point of law by way of exercife, as was commonly done 
in the inns of court at appointed times.—I meane the 
pleading ufed in courte and chancery called motes, where 
fyrft a cafe is appointed to be mated by certein young 
men, conteining fome doubtful controverfle. SirT. Elyot's 
Gov. —A bad habit to moot cafes on the fuppofed ruin of 
the conftitution. Burke on the Dijcontcnts in 1770.—See 
Mooting. 
To MOOT, v.n. To argue or plead upon a fuppofed 
caule in law.—There is a difference between tnoothig 
and pleading; between fencing and fighting. B. Jonfon's. 
Difcoveries. 
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