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hour, its violence gradually returning. When the dream 
is mod boifterous, and its fury heightened by a dorm, it 
is dangerous to come within a Norway mile of it; boats, 
(hips, and yachts, having been carried away, by not guard¬ 
ing againd it before they were within its reach. It like- 
wife happens frequently, that whales come too near the 
dream, and are overpowered by its violence ; and then it 
is impodible to defcribe their bowlings and bellowings in 
their fruitlefs druggies to difengage themfelves. A bear 
once attempting to fwim from Lofoden to Mofkoe, with 
a defign of preying upon the (lieep at padurein the idand, 
afforded the like fpeftacle to the people; the dream caught 
him, and bore him down, whilft he roared terribly, fo as 
to be heard on-(hore. Large docks of firs and pine-trees, 
after being abforbed by the current, rife again, broken 
and torn to fuch a degree as if bridles grew on them. 
This plainly (hows the bottom to confid of craggy rocks, 
among which they are whirled to and fro. This dream is 
regulated by the flux and reflux of the fea ; it being con- 
ftantly high and low water every fix hours. In the year 
164.5, early in the morning of Sexagefima Sunday, it raged 
with fuch noife and impetuofity, that on the ifland of 
Mofkoe the very flones of the houfes fell to the ground.” 
MAsMACTE'RI A, f. in antiquity, one of the feffivals 
indituted in honour of Jupiter. 
MASMACTE'RION, f. [Greek.] The fourth month 
of the Athenian year. It contained twenty-nine days, 
and anfwered to the latter part of our September and be¬ 
ginning of Oftober. It took its name from the feftival 
Memaiteria, facred to Jupiter, kept at this time. 
MAsN'ADES, a name of the Bacchantes, or priedeffes 
of Bacchus. The word is derived from pcuvopou, to be 
furious, becaufe in the celebration of the fedivals their 
geflures and aftions were thofe of mad women. Ovid. 
Fxji. iv. 4.5S. 
MAsN'ALUS, a mountain of Arcadia, (acred to the 
god Pan, and greatly frequented by fhepherds. It re¬ 
ceived its name from Msnalus, a fon of Lycaon. It was 
covered with pine-trees, whofe echo and (hade have been 
celebrated by all the ancient poets. 
MiE'NCHIA,/ in botany. See Mcenchia. 
MiE'NCLOCHOG, a village in Pembrokeftiire, South 
Wales ; with a fair on the aid of May. 
MAEN'NL (Jacob), a niezzotinto-engraver of confider- 
able ability, was born at Vienna in the year 1695, and died 
in the fame city at an advanced age. He was employed 
by C. Lauch, infpeftor of the imperial gallery at Vienna, 
to fcrape that celebrated colleftion in mezzotinto ; and had 
executed thirty-one of the plates, when the death of both 
the engraver and employer prevented the completion of 
their project. Of thefe thirty-one prints, only eleven 
were ever made public. Antoine Joleph Prenner, after 
the death of Lauch and Msnnl, undertook, in concert 
with Stampavt, Altamonti, Schmutzer, and others, to re¬ 
commence the work from the imperial gallery 5 and after 
a confiderable lapfe of time produced, “ Theatrum Artis 
piftoris, quo tabulae depifts quae in Csfarea Vindobo- 
nenfi Pinacotheca fervantur,” &c. in four folio parts, or 
volumes, of which part one was publilhed in 1718, part 
two in 1719, part three in 1731, and part four in 1733. 
Thefe four parts contain a hundred and fixty prints, which 
are furrounded by borders in a bad tafte ; and the work 
altogether is but of mediocral charafter. 
MiE'NUS, a river of Germany, now called the Mayne, 
falling into the Rhine at Mayence. 
MiEO'NIA, a country of Afia Minor, the fame as Lydia. 
It is to be obferved, that only part of Lydia was known 
by the name of Msonia, that is, the neighbourhood of 
Mount Tmolus,and the country watered by the Paftolus. 
The reft on the fea-coaft was called Lydia. Strabo .—The 
Etrurians, as being defeended from a Lydian colony, are 
often called Maonida-, and even the lake Thrafymenus, in 
.jheir country, is called Maonius Lacus. Sil. Ital. 
MAtON'IDAi, a name given to the Mufes, becaufe 
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Homer, their greateft and worthieft favourite, was fup- 
pofed to be a native of Masonia. 
MASON'IDES, a furname of Homer, becaufe, according 
to the opinion of fome writers, he was born in Masonia ; 
or becaufe his father’s name was Mason. Ovid. 
MAsO'NIS, an epithet applied to Omphale, as queen 
of Lydia, or Masonia. The epithet is alfo applied to 
Arachne, as a native of Lydia. Ovid. • 
MJEO'TJE, a Scythian people who inhabited the banks 
of the Palus Maeotis, and who gave their name to this 
lake. 
MAsQ'TIS PA'LUS, a large lake, or part of the fea 
between Europe and Afia, at the north of the Euxine, to 
which it communicates by the Cimmerian Bofphorus; 
now called the Sea of Azof. It was worftripped as a deity 
by the Maffagetas. It extends about 390 miles from 
fouth-weft to north-eaft, and is about 600 miles in cir¬ 
cumference. The Amazons are called Maotides, as living 
in the neighbourhood. Strabo. 
M.ARE, adv. It is derived from the Sax. meji, famous, 
great, noted : fo ALlmere is all famous; JEthtlmere, famous 
for nobility. Gibfon's Camden. 
MAE'RHUET, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Smaland : thirty-one miles north-weft of Calrnar. 
MAER'NA, a town of the county of Tyrol: twenty- 
three miles weft-fouth-weft of Trent, and eighty weft of 
Riva. 
MAER'SE, a town of Holland, in the department of 
Utrecht: five miles north-weft of Utrecht. 
MAs'RUA, f. [fo called by For(kall from its Arabic 
name Meru ; it is one of his genera, adopted Juflieu, Vahl, 
and Willdenow.] In botany, a genus of the clafs poly- 
andria, order monogynia, natural order plants incerts 
fedis, Jujf. The generic charafters are—Calyx : peri- 
anthium of one leaf, tubular, coriaceous, four-cleft; tube 
fquare, (hort, broader upwards ; fegments of the limb ob¬ 
long, obtufe, reflexed, a little longer than the tube. Co¬ 
rolla : none. Neftary at the mouth of the tube of the 
calyx, entire or divided, (horter than the calyx, conniv¬ 
ing, covering the (talk of the germen. Stamina: filaments 
numerous, at the bafe of the germen, thread-fhaped, twice 
as long as the calyx ; anthers oblong, incumbent. Pif- 
tillum : germen cylindrical, (horter than the filaments, 
fmootb, on a thread-lhaped fquare (bulk, the length of the 
tube, (welling upwards ; ftyle none ; (tigma obtufe. Pe- 
ricarpium and feeds: unknown.— EJfential CharaEler. Ca¬ 
lyx four-cleft, with the neftary in its tube ; corolla nones, 
(tigma feffile. 
This genus is clofely akin to Grewia, as Vahl obferves; 
but differs fufficiently from that in having a four-cleft ca¬ 
lyx, a neftary crowning the mouth of the tube, and a fef¬ 
file (tigma. 
Species. 1. Msrua uniflora: (talks fingle-flowered; 
neftary many-cleft. This (lirub is furni(hed with round,, 
fpreading, very fmooth, branches, and a purplilh bark. 
Leaves alternate, on footftalks, fcattered, often many from 
the fame bud, oval, entire, pointed, thick. Flowers axil¬ 
lary, each placed on a folitary thread-lhaped (talk, twice 
as long as the leaves. Neftary divided into many thread- 
lhaped (egments. Native of Arabia Felix. 
3. Msrua racemofa : flowers racemofe ; neftary undi¬ 
vided. Branches round and fmooth. Leaves on foot¬ 
ftalks, remote, pendent, oval, pointed, retufe, entire,, 
fmooth, half an inch long; footftalk (horter than the leaf. 
Ciufters of flowers terminal, drooping. This is alfo a na¬ 
tive of Arabia Felix. 
MA'ES (Godfrey). Amidft thofe who praftifed the art 
of painting in the Flemifli fchool, after the aftonilhing 
powers of Rubens were developed, this artift held a con¬ 
fiderable rank. He was born at Antwerp in 1660 ; and 
having received early inftruftions from his father, im¬ 
proved and perfefted himfelf by ftudying and copying the 
fine piftures placed in the great churches and cabinets of 
his native city. His works, when he began to praftife 
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