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MASE'BE, a town of Sweden, in Weft Gothland : fif¬ 
ty-four iniles eaft-fouth-eaft of Gotheborg. 
MAS'ELSKOI, a town of Rufina, in the government of 
Archangel: twenty iniles fouth of Kola. 
M A'SENBURG, a town of the duchy of Styria: tivo 
miles fduth of Leoben. 
MASE'NO, a village of the Valteline, celebrated for its 
baths: eight miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Chiavenna. 
MASE'NO, a river which rifes in the Alps, and runs 
into the Adda four miles eaft of Morbegno. 
MAS'ERA, a town of Arabia, in the province of Oman, 
on the coafi: feventy miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Kalhat. 
Lat. 22, N. - 
MASERA'TA, a town of the duchy of Piacenza : 
eighteen miles fouth of Piacenza. 
MA'SEYCK. See Maeseyck. . 
M ASH,/i [majche, Dut.] The fpace betweemthe threads 
of a net, commonly written vujli .—To defend againft the 
flings of bees, have a net knit with fo ftnall ma/Jies, that 
a bee cannot get through. Mortimer ,—Any thing mingled 
or beaten together into an undifiinguifhed or confufed 
body ; [from mij'ckcn, Dut. to mix, of mafcher , Fr.] A mix¬ 
ture for a horfe.-—Put half a peck of ground malt into a 
pail, then put to it as much fcalding wafer as will wet it 
well; ftir it about for half an hour till the water is very 
fweet, and give it to the horfe lukewarm: this viajli is to 
be given to a horfe after he has taken a purge, to make it 
work the better ; or in the tame of great ficknefs, or after 
hard labour. Farrier’s DiEiionary. 
To MASH, v. a, \majcher, Fr.] To beat into a confufed 
mafs.—To break the claw of a lobfter, clap it between 
the fides of the dining-room door: thus you can do it 
■without ma/hing the meat. Swift’s Advice to Servants —To 
mix malt and water together in brewing. 
MASH'AL, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
MASH'AM, a market-town in the 'North Riding of 
Yorkfhire. It is fituated on the river Ure, at the diftance 
of nine miles from Rippon, and 224. from London. In 
the church, which is a handfome ftrufture with a fine 
fpive, is a monument for fir Marmaduke Wyvill; and in 
the church-yard the lower half of a crofs, adorned with 
compartments of men and animals in relief. Leland men¬ 
tions this town as “ Mafleham, a pratye quick market- 
town and a fair church. Several of the Scropes of Ma- 
fliatn were buried in York Minfter. Wiville dwillith a 
litle above Mafham on the further ripe of Ure.” A weekly 
market is held in this town on Tuefdays, and three fairs 
annually. 
In tlie vicinity of Mafham flood Jervaux abbey, founded 
in 1145, for Ciftertians : at the diifolution, the fcite was 
granted to the earl of Lennox. From the fragments of 
ruins which are fcattered over a great extent of ground, 
the outward walls appear to have been a mile in circum¬ 
ference.—At Swinton, near Mafham, is the feat of the 
Danby family.-—At Clifton, a fhort diftance from the town, 
are the remains of a large building of ancient architec¬ 
ture, which was formerly the manfion of the lords Scroop 
of Mafham. 
MASKANGUR', a town of Candahar, in the province 
of Cabul, on the river Sewad : forty-eight miles north of 
Attcck, and 130 eaft-fouth-eaft of Cabul. Lat. 33. 54. N. 
Ion, 71. 7. E. 
MASH'UK, a town of the Arabian Irak : five miles 
north-weft of Samira. 
MASH'ING, f. The aft of beating into a confufed 
mafs ; of mixing the water and malt for brewing. 
MASH'ING-TTJB, J. The tub in which water and 
malt is mixed for brewing,—What was put in the firft 
majhing-tub draw off, as alfo that liquor in the fecond 
mafhing-tub. Mcrtim.er's Hvjbandry. 
MASHMAN'NAH, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
MASIA'DY, a town of Samogitia : thirty-fix miles 
north-north-weft of Medniki. 
MAS']AN, a river of Perfia, which runs into the Sihon 
in the province of Chorafan. 
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MAS'IDE, a town of Spain, in the province of Galicia: 
twelve miles north-weft of Orenfe. 
MAS'IDE, a final 1 ifland in the Eaftern Indian Sea. 
Lat. 7. 25. S. lor.. 130 35. E. 
MASI'GNE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Sarte: five miles fouth of Le Mans, and three eaft- 
north-eaft of La Fleche. 
MA'SIN, a town of France, in the department of the 
Dora: five miles fouth-eaft of Ivre-a. 
MASI'NA, a kingdom of Africa, north of Bambara, 
fituated on north bank of the Niger, and to the fouth- 
well of Tombuftou, inhabited -by Fmilabs, who pay an an¬ 
nual tribute to the king of Bambara. Lat. 14. 30. to. 16. N. 
Ion. o. 3. to 3 o. W. 
MASINAC', a town of Egypt: fourteen miles northi- 
eaft of Habafeh. 
MASIN'GA, a town o£ Cacongo. Lat. 5. 10. S. Ion. 
12. 8. E. 
MASINIS'SA. See Massinissa. 
MAS 1 VAN', or Merzifon, a town of Afiatic Turkey, 
in the government of Sivas: ninety miles north-weft of" 
Sivas, and 120 eaft of Angura. 
MA'SIUS (Andrew), a native of Brabant, and an emi¬ 
nent oriental fcholar in the fixteenth century, was born in 
a fmall village near Bruflels, but in what year we are not 
informed. He purfued his academical ftudies at the uni- 
verfity of Louvaine, where he gained the firft honours in 
the philofophical clafs in 1533, at which time he is fpoken 
of as (till a boy. Afterwards he applied to the ftudy of 
civil and canon law, of which he was made adoftor, and 
was nominated counfellor to the duke of Cleves. He was 
an extraordinary linguift, being intimately acquainted not 
only with the Italian, French, Spanifh, and other Euro¬ 
pean languages, but alfo with the Latin, Greek, Hebrew, 
and Syriac. He was made privy-counfellor to John a Vueza, 
bifiiop of Conftance and Lunden ; and maintained a ccr- 
refpondence, in Latin and Hebrew, with Sebaftian Mum- 
fter, who fays, that his letters in both thefe languages were 
written with a degree of correftnefs and purity, which he 
could not have excelled had they been his mother-tongues. 
By order of Philip II. king of Spain, he was fent to Ant¬ 
werp, and affociated with Arias Montanus, Fabricius, &c. 
in publifliing the Bible Royal, or Antwerp Polyglot. 
Mafius had been poilefTor of the celebrated Syriac mamt- 
fcript of the feventh century, afterwards the property of 
Daniel Erneft Jablonfki, which is the only manufcript 
known that prefents us with the edition given by Origen 
of the Book of Jofhua, and the following books of the 
Old Teftament, which was tranflated word for word from 
a Greek copy corrected by Eufebius. He died in the ter¬ 
ritory of Cleves in the year 1573. His works confilt of, 
1. Grammatica Syriaca, 1571, folio. 2. Syrorum Pecu- 
lium, or an explanation of peculiar words which occur 
frequently in Syriac writers, 3. Lexicon Grascum, et 
Grsecae Linguae Inltitutiones, 4. Commentarius de P;r^ 
radifo, tranftated from the Syriac of Mofes Bar Cephas, a 
w/iter who lived before the leventh century, 1569, 3 vo. 
5. B. Bafilii Aenovpyta,, 1569, 8vo. 6. Molis Mardeni, 
Jacobitse, &c. apud Greg. XIII. P.M. Legati, Profeftiones 
Fidei Duae, tranflated from the Syriac, 1569, Svo. After 
his death were publiflied, 7. Exphcatio in Hiftoriam Jo- 
fuas, 1574, folio. 8. Difputatio de Ccena Domini, in op- 
pofltion to the Calvinilts, 1575, 4to. Gen. Biog. 
MASK, or Masque, A [French.] A cover to difguife 
the face j a vifor.—Could we fuppofe that a majk re pre¬ 
sented never fo naturally the general humour of a charac¬ 
ter, it can never fuit with the variety of pallions- that are 
incident to every Angle perfon in the whole courle of a 
play. Addifon on Italy. 
Since (lie did neglect her looking-giafs, 
And throw her lun-expelling majk away ; 
The air hath ftarv’d the rofes in her cheeks, 
And pitch’d the lily tinfture of her face. Shal-efpeare. 
Poppaea, wife of Nero, is faid to be ths firft inventor 
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