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MASTIFF, adj. Wide, large, as if belonging to a 
in aft iff: 
When rank Therfites opes his majlijf jaws, 
We (hall hear mufic, wit, and oracle. Shakefpeare. 
MASTIGADOU'R, or Slabbering-bit, f. in the 
manege, is a fnaffle of iron, all fmootb, and of a piece, 
guarded with pater norters, and compofed of three halves 
of great rings, made into demi-ovals of unequal bignefs, 
the lefler being inclofed within the greateft, which ought 
to be about half a foot high. A martigadour is mounted 
with a headltall and two reins. A borfe, by champing 
upon the martigadour, keeps his mouth frefli and moift. 
To put a horfe to the martigadour, is to fet his croup 
to the manger, and his head between two pillars in the- 
(fable. Horfes that ufe to hang out their tongues can¬ 
not do it when the martigadour is on ; for that keeps 
their tongue fo much in fubjeilion, that they cannot put 
it out. 
MAS'TIGON, a river of North America, which runs 
into lake Michigan. 
M ASTIGOPH'ORI,/. [Greek.] In antiquity, certain 
officers among the Greeks appointed to preferve the peace, 
and correft fuch as were diforderly.at the Olympic games. 
MAS'TIH, a town of Perfia, in the province of Ker¬ 
man : 14.0 miles eaft-north-eaft of Sirgian, and 4.10 eaft- 
fourh-eaft of Ifpahan. Lat. 29.16. N. Ion. 59. 40. E. 
MAST'LESS, adj. Bearing no mart : 
Her finning hair, uncomb’d, was loofely fpread, 
A crown of majllefs oak adorn’d her head. Dryden. 
MAS'TLIN,y. [from mejler , Fr. to mingle; or rather 
corrupted from mt/cellane.'] Mixed corn ; as, wheat and 
rye ; 
The (other for one lofe hath twaine 
Of maJHin, of rie and of wheat. TuJJer's llujb. 
A mixed metal.—Nor brafs, nor copper, nor majllin, nor 
mineral. Brewer's Lingua. 
MAS'TLIN, adj. Shining, glittering. Chaucer. 
M ASTODON'TON. See Mammoth, p. 241,2. 
MAS'TRAKE,/. [from mafruca.'] A furred garment 
worn-by the Scythians. Cole. 
MAS'TRE (La), a town of France, in the department 
of the Ardeche : fifteen miles north of Privas, and twelve 
fouth-w'eft of Tournon. 
MASTRU'CA,y; [Latin.] A furred garment; the 
inaftrake. Phillips. 
MASTU'RA, a town of Arabia Petrea, on the bor¬ 
ders of the Red Sea : ninety-two miles fouth-weft of Me¬ 
dina. Lat. 23. 5. N. 
MASVAU'X, a town of France, in the department of 
the Upper Rhine : nine miles north of Befort, and twenty- 
two fouth-fouth-weft of Colmars. 
MASU'CO, or Masacon, a town of Portugal, in the 
province of Tras os Montes: eighteen miles eaft-north- 
eaft of Efpadacinta, and twenty-feven fouth-fouth-weft 
of Miranda de Duero. 
MASU'LA, a town of Perfia, in the province of Ghi- 
lan : forty miles north-north-welt of Aftara. 
MASULIPATAM', a city and feaport of Hindooftan, 
in the circar of Condap'illy, fituated at the mouth of the 
Kiftnah ; anciently called Mafolia. It is a place of con- 
fiderable trade for chintzes and painted linens ; but the 
air is efteemed uriwholefome. This town is fixty-five 
miles fouth-fouth-weft of Rajamundry, and 150 fouth- 
eaft of Hvdrabad. Lat. 10. 10. N. Ion. 81. 1 5. E. 
MASU'RA, f. in old records, a decayed houfe; a 
wall; the ruins of a building; a certain quantity of 
land. 
MASURIE'I-I, a town of the Arabian Irak, on the 
Euphratesfifty miles weft of Korna. 
MAS'ZOW, a town of Hungary : fix miles weft of Ro- 
fenburg. 
MAT, a contraction for Matthew, 
MAT, f. [cnear’ce, Sax. matte, Germ, matta, Lat.] 
A texture of fedge, flags, or rufhes.—The women and 
children in the weft of Cornwall make mats of a fmall and 
fine kind of bents there growing, which ferve to cover 
floors and walls. Carew's Survey of Cornwall. 
In the worft inn’s word room, with met half hung. 
The floors of piarter, and the walls of dung. Pope. 
To MAT, v. a. To cover with mats.—Keep the doors 
and windows of your confervatories well matted and 
guarded from the piercing air. Evelyn's Kalendar. —To 
twirt together ; to join like a mat.—The fpleen confifteth 
of mufcular fibres, all matted, as in the fkin, but in more 
open work. Grezo's Cofmology. 
He look’d a lion with a gloomy flare, 
And o’er his eye-brows hung his matted hair. Dryden. 
MAT'-FELON, /. in botany. See Mater-filon, 
MAT'-GRASS. See Nardus. 
MAT'-WEED. See Lyceum. 
MA'TA, a feaport town of Spain, in the province of 
Valencia: twenty-two miles Couth-fouth-weft of Alicant. 
MA'TA, a lake of Spain, in the province of Valencia, 
near the fea-fide. The quantity of fait collected here is 
immenfe, and is the property of the king, coding little 
more than the labour of heaping it, being in a manner 
produced naturally. The high bank which feparates the 
Cea from the Mata, appears natural ; the lake is bounded 
on the land-fule by mountains, and is formed by the tor¬ 
rents of rain-.water that gu(h down in winter, which, eva¬ 
porating gradually by the heat of the Cun, added to the 
nature of the foil, become a mafs of fait, Co plentiful, 
that fome years the exports have amounted to near 100,000 
tons weight, chiefly for Holland and the Baltic ; confi- 
derable quantities a!Co are in demand for curing of fifli, 
particularly for Newfoundland and New England. The 
coll is about eleven (hillings per ton, on board ; and the 
king, in order to encourage the export, lets the price al¬ 
ways remain the fame. 
MA'TA, a river of Africa, which erodes the country 
of Sabia, and runs into the Eaftern Indian Sea in lat. 
19.30.S. • 
MATABOO'N, a fmall ifland in the Sooloo Archipe¬ 
lago. Lat. 3. 2. N. Ion. 120. 11. E. 
MATACA', or Matan'ca, a bay*on the north eoaft 
of the ifland of Cuba, where the Dutch fleet defeated the 
Spaniffi fleet in the year 1627: thirty-fix miles from the 
Havanna. 
MAT'ACHIN,/. [French.] An old dance.—Who 
ever faw a matachin-<ha.nce to imitate fighting ? This was 
a fight that did imitate the viatachin ; for, they being but 
three that fought, every one had two adv.erfaries linking 
him, who (truck the third. Sidney. 
MATACO'LA. See Batacola, vol. ii. 
M ATADO'RES,/. [matador, Span, a murderer.] A 
banditti, who formed themfelves into armed bodies about 
the year 1714, in Catalonia. Their object was to deftroy 
every citizen that would not acknowledge the title of the 
archduke of Auftria to the crown of Spain. James's Military 
Did. —The three principal cards in the games of ombre 
and quadrille, which are always the two black aces, and 
the deuce in fpades and clubs, and the feven in hearts and 
diamonds: 
Now move to war her fable matadores, 
In (how like leaders of the fwarthy Mo'ors. Pope. 
MATAFUN'DA. See Artillery, vol. ii. p.231. 
MATAGA'RA, a town of Africa, in Sungulmefla. 
MATAGO'DA, a lmall ifland'in the Pacific Ocean, 
near the coalt of Chili. Lat. 31. S. 
MATAGOR'DA, a fort of Spain, which covers the 
harbour of Cadiz. 
MATAGU'A, a town of the ifland of Cuba: ninety- 
two miles fouth-eaft of Havannah. 
MATA'IA, a province of South America, towards the 
river 
