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MAA'DEN BOGA'ZI, a pafs in the mountains of 
Armenia : fixty miles north of Diarbekir. 
MAA'DEN al NO'CRA, a town of Arabia, in the 
province of Hedsjas : 140 miles eaft of Hagiaz. 
MAA'DEN UZZUMU'RUD, (i. e. the Aline of Eme¬ 
ralds.) A mountain of Egypt, on the coalt of the Red 
Sea ; ninety miles fouth of Cofeir. 
MAAGRUN'NI, two iflandson the eaft fide of the gulf 
of Bothnia. Lat. 65.25. N. Ion. 24. 56. E. 
MAALCHOAB'BIN, [Hebrew.] The name of a place, 
MAALMO'RIE, a cape of Scotland, on the fouth-ealt 
part of the ifland of Ha. Lat. 55.45. N. Ion. 6. 4. W. 
MAA'LUM, a town of Bengal : eight miles eaft of Toree. 
MA'AN, a town of Afia, in Palaftine : nineteen miles 
fouth-eaft of Jerufalem. 
MAA'N (John), a French ecclefiaftical hiftorian of me¬ 
rit in the feventeenth century, was a native of Tours, who, 
having been educated for the clerical profeflion, and ad¬ 
mitted doctor by the faculty of the Sorbonne, became ca¬ 
non and precentor of the church of Tours. To the fer- 
vice of this church he z.ealoufly devoted his talents and 
learning, not only in theaftiduous difcharge of the duties 
of his appointments, but by an induftrious enquiry into its 
hiftory, from the earlieft date. The refult of his labours 
was a work on which very high commendations are be- 
ftowed by his countrymen, who reprefent it to be replete 
with erudition and curious refearches, and to refleft equal 
honour on the church of Tours and its author. It ex¬ 
tends from the year 251 to 1655 ; and was printed in the au¬ 
thor’s houfe at Tours in 1667, under the title of “ Sandla 
et Metropolitana Ecclefia Turonenfis, facrorum Pontificum 
Juorum ornata Virtutibus, ct fanftifiimus Conciliorum In- 
ftitutis decorator;” folio. Moreri. 
MAA'NA, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Ka- 
jaaga, the refidence of the king, bordering on a branch of 
the river Senegal, and within a ihort diltance of the ruins 
of Fort St. Jofeph. 
MAANIN'GA, a town of Sweden, in the government 
of Kuopio : twenty miles north-north,weft of Kuopio. 
MA'AR, a fmall ifland in the Eaftern Indian Sea, near 
the fouth coaft of the ifland of Ceram. Lat. 3. 30. S. Ion, 
33. 25.E. 
MAARAHA'I, a harbour on the weft coaft of the 
ifland of Ulietea, in the South Pacific Ocean. Lat. 16. 53. S. 
Ion. 151. 27. W. 
MAA'RATH, [Hebrew.] The name of a city. 
MA'ARI.ICH. See Mikalidi. 
MAAR'RA, a town of Aliatic Turkey, in the govern¬ 
ment of Aleppo ; the refidence of an Aga: forty-five 
miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Aleppo. 
MA'AS (Dirk), a painter, born at Haerlem in 1656. 
He at firlt painted ftill life; after that he ftudied with and 
imitated Berchem ; but is belt known by pictures of bat¬ 
tles, proceflions, and cavalcades of horfes, fomewhat in the 
ftyie of Vander Meulen, though not wrought fo free as 
the works of that artift. 
There were two other painters of this name, Arnold van 
Maas, a difciple of Teniers, who died young ; and Nicho¬ 
las Maas, who was born at Dort in 1632, and was educated 
in the fchool of Rembrandt. He p radii fed portrait-paint¬ 
ing with confiderabie fuccefs. He lived to the age of lixty- 
cne, and died in 1693. 
MAASEI'AH, or Maasa'j, fon of Adiel a Levite. 
3 Cfiron. xv. 18.—Son of Adaiah, one to whom the high 
prielt Jehoiadah difcovered his defign of fetting Joafl) on 
the throne of Judah. 2 Chron. xxiii. 1.—Son of Ahaz, 
king of Ifrael, alfaflinated by Zichri. 2 Chron. xxviii. 7. 
MAASEY'CK, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lower Meufe, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftridt of Ruremonde. The place contains 2205, and 
the canton 14,704, inhabitants. 
MAA'SIN, a town on the weft coaft of the ifland of 
Leyta. Lat. 10. 12. N. Ion. 124. 49. E. 
MA'AT , f. A f uperficial meafure of land in Holland, 
containing 500 fquare ruthes, of which 600 are equal to a 
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morgen or acre. A Angle fquare ruthe contains 169 fquare 
feet, each foot being = 121 fquare inches = 1241 Engliflj 
inches. 
MA'AT (John). See Blankof, vol. iii. p. 92, 
AlA'ATH, [Hebrew.] A naan’s name. Luke iii. ' 
MAAT'TAN, a town of Hindooftan in Bahar, thirty- 
four miles north-north-eaft of Durbunga. 
MA'AZ, [Heb.] A man’s name. 
MA'BA , f. [the vernacular name.] In botany, a ge¬ 
nus of the clafs dioecia, order triandria. The generic 
characters are—I. Male. Calyx : perianth femitrifid ; di- 
vifions acute, villofe. Corolla: one-petalled, tubular, 
villofe on the outfide ; tube cylindric, longer than the 
calyx j border trifid; divifions ovate, thickifli, upright. 
Stamina : filaments three, filiform, fliorter than the calyx 3 
antherae eredt, ovate. Piftillum : rudiment globular, fub- 
feflile in the centre of the flower. II. Female. Calyx ; 
perianth inferior permanent, as in the males. Pericar- 
pium: drupe fuperior, ovate, oblong, two-celled; cells 
two-feeded. Seeds : nuts two, oblong, three-fided, 
fomewhat convex at the back, with two plane fides, 
— EJj'ential CharaEler. Male. Calyx trifid. Female. Co¬ 
rolla trifid. Drupe fuperior, two-celled. 
Maba elliptica. This is a very fmooth tree, with the 
twigs and young leaves hairy. Leaves alternate, on very 
ftiort petioles, elliptic, veined, very fmooth. Peduncles 
axillary, Ihort, often three-flowered ; flowers fmall, and 
Angular in having the outfide of the calyx and corolla 
more villofe than any of the plant. Native of the 
Friendly Iflands of the South Seas, particularly Tonga- 
taboo. 
There is another fpecies or variety, which Forfter calls 
Maba major, becaufe the drupe or fruit is three times the 
fize of the other, having tree-fided kernels in the cells, 
which are tough and.infipid ; they are however eaten by 
the inhabitants, and were brought for fale to our people. 
In all the Friendly Iflands they plant the tree about their 
houfes. 
MABANOW'KA, a town of Poland, in Volhynia s 
twelve miles fouth of Berdiczow. 
MAB'BY, J. in Barbadoes, a kind of potatoe-wine, 
Boyle. 
MA'BEL,/. [amabilis, Lat. lovely.] The name of a- 
Woman. 
_ MABE'A, f. [the vernacular name amongft the Ca- 
ribs is piriri mabe. ] In botany, a genus of the clafs mo- 
noecia, order polyandria, natural order of tricoccae, (eu~ 
phorbiae, Juff.) The generic characters are—I. Male,. 
Calyx: perianth one-leafed, five-toothed, acute. Corolla: 
none. Stamina : filaments nine to twelve, inferted into 
the bottom of the calyx ; antherse roundifh. II. Female,. 
Calyx : perianth one-leafed, upright, five-toothed, acute. 
Piftillum : germ oblong, fubtrigonal, longer than the ca¬ 
lyx; ftyle long (rather three ityles glued together, JuJf.) 
ftigmas three, filiform, revolute, or twifted Ipirally. Pe- 
ricarpium: capfule covered with a thick bark, roundifli, 
tricoccous, three-celled ; cells bivalve, burfting elaftically. 
Seeds: lolitary, roundilh.— EJfential CharaCler. Male. Ca¬ 
lyx one-leafed, five-toothed ; coroila none; filaments nine 
to twelve, inferted into the bottom of the calyx. Female. 
Stigmas three, revolute ; capfule covered with a thick 
bark, three-celled, three-feeded. 
Species. 1. Mabea piriri: leaves ovate-oblong, acumi¬ 
nated, This is a fhrub, of which the trunk is fix feet 
high ; and about fix inches in diameter: from the trunk 
rife leveral twiggy branches to a great height, which 
lpread and catcli upon the neighbouring trees. The 
leaves are alternate, fmooth, green above, white below; 
the footltalk fliort, and furnilhed with two long and 
ftraight ftipules, which are deciduous. The flowers are 
borne in great numbers on the tops of the branches, 
ranged in a long panicle ; the male flowers on the upper 
part of the panicle, the female on the lower; and are fix 
or eight in number. All the parts of this flirub yield a 
milky juice. Thfc Creoles and Negroes ufe the fmaller 
branches 
