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long, and a pike with the fame, hanging by a girdle with 
a hook ; meaning probably, by this defcription, that the 
handle of the mall fhould be of this length, the end armed 
with a pike or fpike; and this implement, we may ima¬ 
gine, was worn at the back, hung by a hook fixed in the 
centre of its handle, with a loop, or fume other contri¬ 
vance, to keep it nearly perpendicular. Father Daniel has 
engraved one of thefe mallets, which, in form, exaftly re- 
fembles the prefent wooden inftrument of that name, ex¬ 
cept that its handle is fomewhat longer. This weapon 
feems to have been of French extraction ; for we find, that 
in the reign of Charles VI. on occafion of a riot, the po¬ 
pulace forced open the arfenal, and armed thernfelves 
chiefly with mallets, whence they were fly led Maiilotins. 
Malls were tremendous weapons in the hands of ltrong 
aCtive men, fuch as are defcribed to have wielded them 
in the following verfes : 
Two Scotch earls of an ancient race, 
One Crawford called, the other Montrofs, 
Who led twelve thoufand Scotchmen flrong, 
Who manfully met with their foes 
With leaden malls and lances long. 
Then on the Englifh part with fpeed 
The bills ftept forth, and bows went back ; 
The Moori.'h pikes and malls of lead 
Did deal there many a dreadful thwack. Gro/e's Mil. Ant. 
MALL, f. A (troke ; a blow. Not in vfe: 
Give that rev’rend head a inail 
Or two or three againlt a wall. Hudibras. 
A walk where they formerly played with malls and balls. 
Moll is, in Ifiandic, an area or walk fpread with fliells: 
This the beau monde ftiall from the mall furvey. 
And hail with mulic its propitious ray. Pope. 
To MALL, v. a. The beat or (trike with a mall. 
MAL'LA, a town of Africa, in the country of Wool¬ 
ly : fifteen miles eaft of Medina. 
MALLABAU'QUEN, a lake of Chili: fixty miles 
north-eaft of Valdivia. 
MALLAHOLLA, / in botany. See Olax. 
MALLAMA', a town of South America, in Popayan : 
thirty miles fouth-welt of Pafto. 
MALLAMTOD'DALI,A in botany. See Celtis and 
Muntingia. 
MAL'LANCY CHO'KY, a town of Aflam : fifty miles 
ealt of Rangamatty. 
MALLAPIL'LY, a town of Hindooflan, in Myfore : 
twelve miles north of Vencatighery. 
MAL'LARDjy. [ malart , Fr.] The male of the wild 
duck, Anas bofchas, vol. i. p. 520. —The birds that are 
mod eafy to be drawn are mallard, (hoveller, and goofe. 
Peackam on Drawing. 
Antony claps on his fea-wings like a doating mallard, 
Leaving the fight in height. Shaktfp. Ant. and Cleop. 
MALLAWAL'LE, a fmall ifland, in the Eaflern In¬ 
dian Sea: north of Borneo: lat. 7. 2. N. Ion. 117. 29. E. 
MALLEABIL'ITY, /. [from malleable.'] Quality of 
enduring the hammer; quality of fpreading under the 
hammer.—Suppofing the nominal effence of gold to he a 
body of fuch a peculiar colour and weight, with mallea¬ 
bility and fufibility, the real eflence is that conflitution on 
which thefe qualities and their union depend. Locke. 
MAL'LEABLE, adj. [from malleus, Lat. a hammer.] 
Capable of being fpread by beating; this is a quality pof- 
fefled in the molt eminent degree by gold, it being more 
duCtile than any other metal; and is oppofite to friabi¬ 
lity or brittlenels. Quincy .—If the body is compaft, and 
bends or yields inward to predion without any Hiding of 
its parts, it is hard and elaftic, returning to its figure with 
a force rifing from the mutual attraction of its parts ; if 
the parts Hide upon one another, the body is malleable or 
foft. Newton’s Optics, 
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The beaten foldier proves molt manful. 
That like his fword endures the anvil ; 
And juftly’s held more formidable. 
The more his valour’s malleable. ,Hudibras. 
MAL'LEABLENESS, f. Quality of enduring the ham¬ 
mer; malleability; duCtility.—The bodies of molt ufe that 
are [ought for out of the earth are the metals, which are 
diftinguifhed from other bodies by their weight, fufibi¬ 
lity, and malleablenefs. Locke. 
MALLE AM', a town of Hindooflan, in the Carnatic: 
twenty-four miles fo.uth-fouth-weft of Tritchinopoli. 
To MAL'LEATE, v.a. To hammer; to forge or fliape 
by the hammer.—He fir(t found out the art of melting 
and malleating metals, and making them ufeful for tools, 
Derham. 
MAL'LEATING,/ The ad: of hammering. 
MAL'LEMANS (Claude), an able French philofopher 
and mathematician, was defcended from an ancient and 
noble family, and born at Beaune in Burgundy about the 
year 1646. He came to Paris when he was very young, 
and appears to have purfued his academic (Indies in that 
city. In 1764 he entered among the priefts of the Con¬ 
gregation of the Oratory ; and, after a (hurt flay in their 
community, attached himfelf to the univerfity of Paris. 
Here he filled the chair of profefior of philofophy at the 
college du Plefiis, for thirty-four years, with conliderable 
reputation ; and had the honour of being felefted to give 
leifons in this fcience to the duchefs of Burgundy. Fall¬ 
ing into poverty in his old age, he retired to the commu¬ 
nity of the priefts of St. Francis de Sales, where he died 
in 1723, about the age of feventy-feven. He was an able 
man, poflefled an inventive genius, but was a zealous ad¬ 
vocate for the philofophy of Des Cartes. He invented “a 
machine for making all fort of dials ;” and was the author 
of, A Phyfical Treatife on the World, a new Syftem, 
1679, j2tno. 2. A new Syftem of the Loadftone, 1674, 
3. An attempt to folve the famous Problem of the Qua¬ 
drature of the Circle, 1683 ; and feveral pieces in defence 
of the fame, and on other fcientific fubjefts, inferted in 
the Journaux des Savans for 1674, 1698, 1699, 1705, and 
1716. From the volume for 1699, we find, that the fame 
idle queftion about the commencement of the century oc¬ 
cupied the attention of the French literati in that year, 
which was gravely debated on this fide of the channel 
a hundred years afterwards ; and that our author was 
among the contributors on that fubjeft. He alfo pub- 
liflied, 4. An Anfwer to a fatirical piece of criticifm, 
entitled, the Apotheofis of the Dictionary of the French 
Academy, 1696, i2ino. Morcri. 
MAL'LEMANS (John), brother of the preceding, was 
born at Beaune in the year 1649. He commenced his ca¬ 
reer in the army, and became a captain. Afterwards he 
embraced the ecclefialtical life; and, in 1702, obtained a 
canonry of the royal and collegiate church of St. Oppor¬ 
tune in Paris. Before and after that time, he made fre¬ 
quent excurfions to England, Holland, Flanders, Germa¬ 
ny, and other countries. Once, as we learn from him- 
felf, he took a journey to Mons, for the foie purpofe of 
examining the firft edition of the tranllation of the New 
Teftament, which is commonly called the New Teita- 
ment of Mons. He was a man of learning, and not defti- 
tute of critical acumen; but he entertained the molt An¬ 
gular and wild opinions, which are abundantly fcattered 
through all his produftions; and he poflefled the higheffc 
opinion of his own underftanding and acquirements, 
together with a fovereign contempt for thole of other 
men. Differing greatly from his brother, he confidered 
Des Cartes as a poor philofopher, and thjt Auguftine 
knew little of divinity, particularly on the fubjeft of grace. 
The latter notion we do not produce as a deciiive evi¬ 
dence of the obliquity of his judgment. He died in the 
year 1740, at the great age of ninety-one. In 1716, he 
publilhed A French Tranllation of Virgil, in 3 vols. nmo. 
the (tyle of which is inflated prole, deformed by inelegan- 
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