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MAULL'E, a town of France, in the department of 
the Seine and Oife : nine miles welt of St. Germain, and 
eight fouth-ea(t of Mantes. 
MAULPOCJ'R, a town of Hindooftan, in Lahore: ten 
miles north of Rahoon. 
MAULSUR'DA, a town of Bengal : fifty-five miles 
fouth-fouth-weft of Doefa. 
MAU'MONT, a town of France, in the department of 
the Ccrreze : ten miles eaft of Tulle. 
MAUMUSSON', a channel or narrow fea, between the 
itle of Oleron and the continent of France. 
, MAUNCO'RE, a town of Hindooftan, in Bengal: 
twenty tniles north-weft of Burdwan. 
MAUNCH, _/l [manche , Fr.] The figure of an ancient 
ccat-fieeve, borne in many elcutcheons. See the article 
Heraldry, vol. ix. Plate VI. fig. io8. 
MAUND, f [inanb, Sax. tr,ancle , Fr.] A hand-bafket. 
In our old writers it fignifies a kind of great bafket or 
hamper, containing eight bales, or two fats ; it is com¬ 
monly a quantity of eight bales of unbound books, each 
bale having one thoufand pounds weight. 
Maltnd is alfo the denomination of a weight in the Eaft 
Judies. In Bengal heavy goods are vveighed by the maund 
of 40 Peers, each Peer being divided into 16 chittacks. 
The maund oP the Englifh faElary in Bengal weighs 74-Ibs. 
10 oz. lofdr. avoirdupois; Po that the Peer is ilb. 13 oz. 
i3|dr. and the chittack 1 oz. i3§dr. The Bengal bazar - 
maund is 10 per cent, heavier than the maund of the fac¬ 
tory. Grain is fold by the khahoon of 16 foallee, which 
is equal to 40 maunds. At Madras goods are fold by the 
candy of 20 maunds, and the maund is divided into 8 vis, 
320 pollams, or 3200 pagodas. The candy of Madras is 
5oolb. avoirdupois. At Bombay the commercial weight 
is the candy of 20 maunds ; the maund being fubdivided 
into 40 Peers, and the feer into 30 pice. The candy is 
56o!b. the maund 281b. and the leer ii^-oz. avoirdupois. 
Goods are likewife fold by the Surat maund, and the 
pucca, or Bengal maund ; fo that, in every contract, the 
.particular maund, or candy, fhould be mentioned. A 
bag of rice weighs 6 maunds, or i68lb. avoirdupois, and 
a candy is equal to 25 Winchefter bufhels nearly. At 
Calicut, on the Malabar coaft, the candy weight contains 
20 maunds, and the maund 100 pools or paloons. The 
maund ufed here by the Englifh weighs 301b. and the 
candy 6oo!b. But the common weights are thole of Ma¬ 
labar, the maund weighing 241b. 20Z. and the candy 482^. 
avoirdupois. At Carwar, on the Malabar coa^ft, the maund 
is 2olb. avoirdupois, and is divided into 40 leers or 1000 
pice ; and the candy is 20 maunds. At Cochin the maund 
is 271b. 2^oz. avoirdupois, and the candy 20 maunds, or 
5431b. 8 oz. avoirdupois. At Goa the maund contains 24 
rattles, or z^lb. avoirdupois, fo that the candy of 20 
■maunds is equal to 4951b. avoirdupois. Corn and rice 
are fold by the candy ot 20 maunds, which are equal to 
14 Englilh bufhels nearly. At Mangalore, the mana or 
maund, by which goods are fold in the. market, contains 
46 Peers, or 281b. 2^oz. avoirdupois; the maund, by which 
the merchants buy and fell, weighs 16 rupees more, that 
is 281b. 4ioz. avoirdupois. At Mafulipatam, the maund 
weighs 24§lb. avoirdupois nearly. At Pondicherry, the 
-maund is 251b. 340Z. 5^dr. avoirdupois. The cutcha, or 
Surat maund, is 371b. 5 oz. 5^dr. avoirdupois; and the 
pucca-maund is double the former. At Surat, the maund 
for weighing heavy goods is 40 Peers, and the feer 30 pice ; 
20 Surat maunds, or 10 pucca, or Bengal-fadtory maunds, 
make 7461b. 10oz. lodr. avoirdupois. But thefe weights 
•vary. At Tranquebar, the maund weighs 74— 1 b. avoir¬ 
dupois. Kelly's Cambijl. vol. i. 
MAU'NDA, a town of Bengal: thirty miles north-welt 
ef Nattore. 
MAUNDAR', a town of Hindooftan, in Bengal : ten 
miles welt of Midnapour. 
MAU'NDER,yi [from maund.~\ A beggar.—My noble 
Springlove, the great commander of the maunders. Broome's 
Jovial Crew. 
M A U 
To MAU'NDER, v.n. [inaudire, Fr.] To grumble; to 
murmur. Obfoletc .—He made me many vifits, maundering as 
i.‘ I had done him a difcourtefy in leaving fuch an opening, 
WJonah's Surgery. 
MAU'NDERER, f. A murmurer; a grumbler, 
MAU'NDY-THUR'SDAY, theThurfday before Eafter; 
the day before Good Friday. It is called in Latin dies 
mandate, “the day ot the command,” being the day on 
which our Lord wafhed the feet of his difciples, as re¬ 
corded in the fecond lelfon. This practice was long kept 
up in the monalteries. After the ceremony, liberal dona¬ 
tions were made to the poor, of clothing and of fiver 
money, and refrefhment was given them to mitigate the 
feverity ot the faft : hence fome derive it from the French 
mande , the bafket in which the gifts were brought. On 
the 15th of April, 1731, (Maundy Thurfday,) the areh- 
biftiop of York w'Slhed the feet of a certain number of 
poor perfons. James II. was thelaft king who performed 
this in perlon. A relic of this cullom is preferved Itill in 
the donations difpenfed at St. James’s on this day. The 
following is an account of the ceremony on Maundy 
Thurfday, 1814. “On this day the annual royal dona¬ 
tions were diltiibuted at Whitehall Chapel. In the morn¬ 
ing, Dr. Carey the fub-almoner, and Mr. Hanby the fe- 
cretary to the lord high almoner, Mr. Noft, and others, be¬ 
longing to the lord-chamberlain’s office, attended by a 
party of the yeomen of the guard, diltributed to feventy- 
five poor women, and feventy-five poor men, being as 
many as the king is years old, a quantity of falt-filh, con¬ 
fiding of falmoir, cod, and herrings, pieces of very fine 
beef, five loaves of bread, and fome ale to drink the king’s 
health. At three o’clock they aflembled again, the men 
on one fide the chapel, and the women on the other. A 
proceffion entered, of thofe engaged in the ceremony, con¬ 
fiding of a party of yeomen of the guard, one of them car¬ 
rying a large gold dilh on his head, containing 150 bags, 
with feventy-five filver pennies in each, for the poor peo¬ 
ple, which was placed in the royal clofet. They were 
followed by the fub-almoner in his robes, with a faffi of 
fine linen over his ftioulder and crofting his waift. Ha 
was followed by two boys, two girls, the fecretary, and 
another gentleman, ;vith fimilar ladies, &c. &c. all carry¬ 
ing large nofegays. The church evening-fervice was then 
performed; at the conclufion of which the filver pennies 
were diltributed, and woollen cloth, linen, llioesand dock¬ 
ings, to the men and women ; and, according to ancient 
cudom, a cup of wine to drink the king’s health.” 
At Rome, Maundy Thurfday is a day of great parade. 
The altar of the Capella Paolina is illuminated with more 
than four thoufand wax tapers ; and the pope and cardinals 
come thither in proceffion, bringing the facrament along 
with them, and leaving it there. Next follows the augutt 
ceremony of the benediction, and afterwards the pope 
waffies the feet of fome pilgrims, and ferves them at dinner. 
At Mofcovv a grand ceremony takes place on this day 
at noon, when the archbilhop wafhes the feet of the apof- 
tles : “ The priefts appeared in their mod gorgeous ap¬ 
parel. Twelve monks, defigr.ed to reprefent the twelve 
apoltles, were placed (in the cathedral) in a femicircle be¬ 
fore the archbilhop. The archbilhop, performing all and 
much more than is related ot our Saviour in the thirteenth 
chapter of St. John, takes off his robes, girds up his loins 
with a towel, and proceeds to vvalh the feet of them all 
until he comes to the representative of Peter, who rifes; 
and the fame interlocution.takes place between him and 
the archbilhop, which is faid to have taken place between 
ourSaviourand thatapoftle.” Clarke'sIiujfia. Time'sTclefcope 
for 1815. 
MAUNDYGAU'T, a town of Hindooftan, in the fu- 
bnh of Delhi: twenty-feven miles ealt-north-eaft of Se- 
cundara. 
MAUNSE'E, a town of Auftria, near a lake : fixteen 
miles foutli-weft of Voglabruck. 
MAUNSE'E, or Mons'ee, a lake of Auftria: fixteen 
miles foutli-weft of Voglabruck. 
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