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MALIG'NANT, adj. Malign •; envious; unpropitious; 
malicious; mifchievous ; intending or affecting ill.—They 
have feen all other notions belides their own reprefented 
in a falfe and malignant light; whereupon they judge and 
condemn at once. Watts's Improvement of the. Mind. 
Not friended by his wilh to your high honour. 
His will is molt malignant, and it Itretches 
Beyond you to your friends. Skakefpeare. 
Hoftile to life.—They hold, that the caufe of the gout is 
a malignant vapour that falls upon the joint; that the fwell- 
ing is a kindnefs in nature, that calls down humours to 
damp the malignity of the vapours, and thereby afluage 
the pain. Temple. 
Let thelearn’d begin 
Th’ enquiry, where difeafe could enter in ; 
How thofe malignant atoms forc’d their w ay, 
What in the fauitlefs frame they found to make their prey ? 
Dry den. 
MALIG'NANT,/. A man of ill intention, malevo¬ 
lently difpofed.—Occafion was taken, by feveral malig- 
nants, fecretly to undermine his great authority in the 
church of Chrift. Hooker. —It was a word ufed of the de¬ 
fenders of the church and monarchy by‘the rebel leCtaries 
in the civil wars. Johnfon. 
MALIG'NANTLY, adv. With ill intention ; mali- 
cioufly; mifchievoufly : 
Now arriving 
At place of potency, and fway o’ th’ ftate. 
If he (hould ftill malignantly remain 
Fait foe to the plebeians, your voices might 
Be curfes to yourlelves. Shakefpcare's Corzolanus. 
MALI'GNER, /. One who regards another with ill 
■will.—I thought it neceffary to juftify my character in 
point of cleanlinefs, which my maligners call in queftion. 
Swift. —Sarcaltical cenfurer.—Such as thefe are philofo- 
phy’s maligners who pronounce the molt generous con¬ 
templations, needlefs unprofitable fubtleties. Glanville. 
MALI'GNING. f. The att of regarding with envy. 
MALIG'NITY, f. Malice; malicioufnefs ; 
Deeds are done which man might charge aright 
On (tubborn fate, or undifcerning might, 
Had not their guilt the lawdefs foldiers known, _ 
And made the whole malignity their own. Ticket. 
Contrariety to life; deftruftive tendency.—No redrefs 
could be obtained with any vigour proportionable to the 
malignity of that far-fpread difeafe. King Charles.— -Evil- 
nefs of nature.—This {hows the high malignity of fraud, 
that in the natural courfe of it tends to the deltruftion of 
common life, by deftroying truft and mutual confidence. 
South. . , . r 
MALI'GNLY, adv. Envioufly; with ill will 3 mif¬ 
chievoufly : 
Left you think I railly more than teach. 
Or praife malignly arts I cannot reach ; 
Let me for once prefume t’inftruct the times. Pope. 
MALIJA'I, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lower Alps, on the Bleonne: nine miles fouth-weit 
of Digne. 
MALIKER'Y, a town, of Hindooftan, in My fore : 
eighteen miles north of Seringapatam. 
MALIKUL', a lake of Ruflia. Lat. 48. 20. N, Ion, 
60. 14.. N. . . 
MALIL'LA, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Smaland ; forty-five miles north-north-well of Calmar.. 
MALPNES, or Mech'lin, called a city of France, in 
the department of the Two Nethes, formerly (and per¬ 
haps now) capital of a province of the Netherlands, which 
included a fmall territory, and about nine towns and vil¬ 
lages. It was the fee of an archbifliop, and contains fix 
uarifli-churches. The magistracy is compofed of an ef- 
cout, two burgo-mafters, twelve echevins, two gover¬ 
nors of the police, two treafurers, two penfioners, two fe- 
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cretaries, and two greffiers; it has feventeen companies of 
trades, the chief of which have a feat and a voice in the 
large council. The inhabitants carry on confiderable 
manufactures in bed-quilts, thread, and particularly in 
lace, which is celebrated all over Europe. In the arfend ‘1 
is a loundery for cannon, and other inftruments of war. 
On the 7th of Auguft, 1546, a terrible accident happened 
at Malines; the lightning fet fire to the magazine, con¬ 
taining 2000 quintals of gunpowder, which blew up and 
deftroyed 300 houfes, killed 200 perfons, and maimed 600 
others. The report was fo great, that it was diftinftiy 
lieard at Bruflels and Antwerp, the inhabitants of which 
cities confidered it as an earthquake. In the year 1580, 
a party of Englifh and Flemings, under the conduit of fir 
John Norris, after having burned the fauxbourgs, entered 
into the city, pillaged, and fet fire to it in many places. 
In the year 1792, Malines admitted the French under ge¬ 
neral Labourdonnaye without a conteft. The number of 
inhabitants is eftimated at 16,000. It is twelve miles north 
of Bruflels, and twelve fouth of Antwerp. Lat. 51. N. 
Ion. 4. 32. E. 
MALINHEAD', a cape of Ireland, and rr.oft northerly 
point of land in the ifland : twenty miles north of Lon¬ 
donderry. Lat. 55.23.N. Ion. 7. 15. W. 
MALIN'KA, a river of Silefia, which runs into the 
Viftula in the principality of Tefchin. 
MALINOV', an ifland in the mouth of the Volga, at 
its entrance into the Cafpian Sea. Lat. 45. 8. N. 
MA'LIO, or St. An'gelo. See Cape Malio, vol. iii. 
MALIS'TA, one of the fmall Weltern Iflands, near 
the weft coalt of Lewis. Lat. 58. N. Ion. 7. 4. E. 
MAL'IT, a town the north coalt of the ifland of Ti¬ 
mor. Lat. 8. 24. S. Ion. 125. 55. E. 
MALIVAGON'GA, a large river of Ceylon, in the 
country of Candy, which rifes at the foot of Adam’s Peak, 
a high mountain fouth-weft of Candy, and, taking a north- 
ealt direction, nearly furrounds the capital, and at length 
falls into the fea at Trincomalee. 
MALIU'TO, a town of Naples, in Calabria Citra: twelve 
miles north-weft of Bifignano. 
MAL'KA, a river of Ruflia, which rifes in the moun¬ 
tains of Georgia, paffes by Ekaterinograd, and runs into 
the Cafpian Sea thirty-fix miles north-eaft of Kizliar. 
MAL'KAR, a town of Hindooftan, in the country of 
Golconda: fifty-four miles weft of Hydrabad, and twenty- 
two fouth-eaft of Calberga. Lat. 17.17. N. Ion. 77. 73. E. 
MAL'KIN,/. [from mal, of Mary, and Ain, the dimi¬ 
nutive termination.] A kind of mop made of clouts for 
fweeping ovens; thence a frightful figure of clouts drefitd 
up; thence a dirty wench. Hanmer. 
The kitchen malkin pins 
Her richeft lockrarn ’bout her reechy neck, 
Clamb’ring the walls to eye him. Shakefpcare's Coriolanus. 
M AL'KIN (Thomas Williams), a child of extraordinary 
premature talents, died July 31,1802, at the age of fix years 
and nine months. His knowledge of the Englifh language 
was correft aqd copious; and his expreflion, whether 
jn fpeaking or writing, remarkable as well as for fertility 
as feieCtion. In the Latin he had proceeded fo far, as to 
read with eafe the more popular parts of Cicero’s works. 
He had made fome progrefs in French; and was fo tho¬ 
rough a proficient in geography, as not only to be able, 
when queftioned, to particularife the fituation of the prin¬ 
cipal countries, cities, rivers, See. but to draw maps from 
memory, with a neatnefs and accuracy which would 
fearcely be credited but by thofe who are in pofleffion of 
the fpecimens. Without any profefiional affiftance, he 
had acquired confiderable execution in the art of draw¬ 
ing; and fome of his copies from Raphael’s heads, though 
wanting the precilion of an academy-ftudent, evinced a 
fellow-feeling with the ftyle and fentiment of the origi¬ 
nals, which leemed likely, had he purfued it, to have 
ranked him with the more eminent profeflors of the art. 
But the mult ftriking feature in his character was a 
ftrength 
