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Pericarpium : drupe roundifh, clothed on the outfide 
with a vehicular pulp. Seed : nut rather ovate, rugged, 
of two cells ; kernels ovate and flattilh.— Ejfential C/ia- 
radter. Male ; calyx the fcale of a catkin ; corolla none ; 
anther fefljle. Female ; calyx and corolla as in the male; 
lligmas two, feilile ; drupe with a rugged nut of two 
cells. 
Morelia rubra, the only fpecies. It is a native of fields 
and thickets in Cochinchina, and cultivated in China, 
where it becomes much larger. We know nothing of 
this plant, but from Loureiro, who fays (Cochinch. 548.) 
that it is a tree about eight feet in height, with a tor¬ 
tuous brown Hem, and fpreading branches. Leaves on 
ftalks, oblong, a little pointed, moftly entire, occafion- 
ally interruptedly ferrated, ffnooth, fcattered. Flowers 
in lateral Ihort catkins. Drupe red, acid, about eight 
lines in diameter, pulpy on the outfide after the manner 
of a mulberry, with a furrowed nut like a peach. Its 
flavour and colour are like the acid red cherry, being 
grateful to the tafte, and wholefome. This fruit is eaten 
by the Chinefe in its crude ftate; but the Europeans 
make it into tarts and cakes. In Cochinchina, when 
half-ripe, it compofes a fauce for filh ; and, when ripe, 
a wine is extra&ed from it, which is by no means to be 
defpifed. 
MO'REM, a town of Spain, lately ceded from Portugal: 
two miles north-weft of Olivenqa. 
MOREM AL'LA, a town of Bengal: thirty miles fouth- 
caft of Moorlhedabad. 
MORE'NA, in ancient geography, a diftriCt or divifion 
of Myfia, in the Hither Afia. A part of which was oc¬ 
cupied by Cleon, formerly at the head of a band of rob¬ 
bers, but afterwards prieft of Jupiter Abrettenus, and 
enriched with pofleftions, firft by Antony, and then by 
C as far. 
MORE'NA BA'Y, a bay on the coaft of Chili. Here 
is a convenient harbour, in which Ihips might be careen¬ 
ed, but it is very narrow. In a north-weft wind the bay 
is not fafe. Lat. 23.45. S. 
MOREN'D, in Gloucefterfhire, is a hamlet in Man- 
gotsfield parifh; here is a fmall camp, at a place called 
Bury, with a deep fofs and high agger thrown up, as 
fuppofed, by the Romans under Oftorius. 
MO'RENESS, /! [from more.'] Greatnefs. Obsolete. 
■—Morenefs of Clirift’s vicars is not meafured by worldly 
morenefs. Wicliffe. 
MOREN'GC, a town of Italy : ten miles fouth-fouth- 
eaft of Bergamo. 
MOREO'VER, ado. Beyond what has been mentioned; 
befides ; likewife; alio ; over and above.— Moreover he 
hath left you all his walks. Shaliefpcare. 
He did hold me dear 
Above this world ; adding thereto, moreover, 
That he would wed me?, orelfediemy lover. ShaJteJjteare. 
MORE'RI (Louis), known as the firft author of the 
Hiftorical Dictionary which goes under his name, was 
born in 1643, at Bargemont,- a little town of Provence. 
He was brought up to literature, and ftudied rhetoric 
and philofophy at the Jefuits’ college at Aix, and theo¬ 
logy at Lyons. At the age of eighteen he publiflied a 
collection of French poetry ; and he afterwards employed 
himfelf in tranflation and compilation. He took holy 
orders, preached on controverfial topics at Lyons during 
five years, and was created a doCtor of theology. He 
then formed the plan of a new hiftorical dictionary, for 
which his principal qualifications were a knowledge of 
modern books, and an acquaintance with the Italian and 
Spanifh languages. His Diflionaire Hi/tbrique firft ap¬ 
peared, at Lyons in 1674, in one volume, folio. It was 
dedicated to M. de Longjumeau, bilhop of Apt, with 
whom he pa fled a year in quality of chaplain. He ac¬ 
companied that prelate to Paris in 1675; and in that ca¬ 
pital became known to the aflembly of clergy, and to the 
principal men of letters. The revilion and augmentation 
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of his dictionary was the great objeCt of his ftudies, to 
which he applied with an afliduity that radically injured 
his conftitution ; and he died in 1680, at the early age 
of thirty-feven. He had prepared a fecond edition of his 
dictionary, which appeared in 16S1, in two volumes, folio. 
Although this was but a flender fund for a work which 
propofed to give a general account of every thing necef- 
lary for the illuftration of hiftory, as chronology, geo¬ 
graphy, genealogy, biography, mythology, &c. its favour¬ 
able reception by the public caufed it to be regarded as 
a ftandard work, and to be continued under the fame 
name and form, through numerous fucceflive editions, 
each of which added to the former mafs of matter. One 
of the moll important improvements it received was from 
the celebrated John le Clerc, who publiflied an edition 
of it at Amfterdam in 1691, in four volumes, folio. Such 
was its credit, that the foundation of Bayle’s Dictionary 
was profelfedly the correction of that of Moreri. New 
editions and fupplements were publiflied from time to 
time; till at length, in 1759, the twentieth edition ap¬ 
peared at Paris, in ten thick volumes, folio. It is to this 
edition that the prelent work is indebted for much in¬ 
formation in various biographical articles. Under the 
article Moreri, in the edition juft referred to, we have an 
hiftorical account of the progrefs of the Hiftorical Dic¬ 
tionary from the commencement, and the writer con¬ 
cludes by faying, “ The great number of editions that 
have been publiflied of Moreri’s Dictionary, clemonftrates 
the great utility of this important work. Other nations 
have envied France the execution of fo vaft a projeCt; and 
many perlons have given, in their own language, elabo¬ 
rate works on the fame plan. Thus we have feen a Mo¬ 
reri in Englifli; another in Germany, printed at Bafle ; 
another printed in the Spanilh language at Paris: and at 
this prelent time (1759) there are four Jefuits, of whom 
two live at Turin, and two at Florence, preparing a. 
tranflation into the Italian, to be printed at Nice, in 12 
vols. folio.” 
MO'RES, a town of the ifland of Sardinia: twenty- 
three miles eaft of Alghieri. 
MO'RES (Edward Rowe), an Englifli antiquary, was 
born in 1730, at Tunftall, in Kent, and educated at 
Merchant-taylors’ fchool, from whence he removed to 
Queen’s-college, Oxford, where he publiflied an ancient 
fragment, entitled “ Nomina et Infignia Gentilitia Nobi- 
l.ium Equitumque fub Edvardo primo Rege Militantium,” 
4to. In 1752, he was chofen a fellow of the Society of 
Antiquaries ; and he projected the Equitable Society for 
inlurance of lives and lurvivorfliip by annuities. He was 
the author of, 2. The Hiftory and Antiquities of Tunftall 
in Kent; and, 3. A Difiertation on Founders and Foun- 
deries. He died in 177S. Prcf to Hiji, of Tunftall. 
MO'RESBY, a village of England, in the county of 
Cumberland, with a harbour in the Irifli Sea, two miles 
north of Whitehaven. In this neighbourhood many re¬ 
mains of antiquity have been dug up, fuch as altars and 
ftones with inferiptions on them; and feveral caverns 
found, called PiCts’ Holes. Here is fuppofed to have 
been a Roman fortification. This, being the utmoft li¬ 
mits of the Roman empire in this part, appears, by heaps 
of rubbifti all along, to have been fortified wherever there 
was eafy landing, for the Scots from Ireland greatly 
infefted tliefe parts. Camden, fpeaking of Morefby, fays, 
there are many remains of antiquity about it, in the 
vaults and foundations of buildings; and feveral pieces 
of ftone dug up with inferiptions: upon one of which 
was LVCIVS SftEVERINVS ORDINATVS; upon ano¬ 
ther COH. VII.—Parton is a port near Morefby, alfo on 
the north fide of Whitehaven, improved by aCt of parlia¬ 
ment, fo as to' be capable of receiving fmall fltips for 
carrying coals, &c. to Ireland. Wilkes's Briti/h Directory, 
vol. iv. 
MORES'CO, Mores'k, or Mores'oue, adj. [ morefque , 
Fr. from maurus, Lat.] Done after the manner of the 
Moors; a term applied to a kind of antique carving, and 
3 painting; 
