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MOS'TAR, a feapoit town of European Turkey, in 
Dalmatia, on the Narent 5 the harbour was the work of 
the Romans : fixty miles north of Ragufa, and fixty eaft 
of Spalatro. Lat. 44. N. Ion. 18. o. E. 
MOSTIGAN'NIM. See Mustigannim. 
MOS'TIL, an ifland of Ruffia, in the Penzinlkoe Sea. 
Lat. 60. 2i. N. Ion. 155. 14. E. 
MO'STLY, adv. For the greateft part.—This image of 
God, namely, natural reafon, if totally or mojily defaced, 
the right of government doth ceafe. Bacon. 
MOS'TOLOS, a town of Spain, in New Caftile : eight 
miles weft-foutli-weft of Madrid. 
MO'STRA, f. in mulic books, a dire£l; the mark at 
the end of the lines, Ihowing with what note the next 
begins. 
MO'STWHAT, adv. For the moft part. Obfolcte ,— 
God’s promifes being the ground of hope, and thofe pro- 
mifes being but feldom abfolute, moftwhat conditionate, 
the Chriltian grace of hope mull be proportioned and at- 
temperate to the promife ; if it exceed that temper and 
proportion, it becomes a tympany of hope. Hammond. 
MOS'TY, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Novogrodek : forty miles weft of Novogrodek. 
MO'SUL, a large and handfome city of Afiatic Turkey, 
in the province of Diarbekir, fuppofed to be the ancient 
Nineveh, fituated in a plain on the weft bank of the Tigris, 
which is here deep and rapid, and crofted by a bridge of 
boats; furrounded with walls and ditches, and defended 
by a caftle. This city contains good buildings, exclu¬ 
sively of the baths and mofques, and which are' all built 
of hewn ftone. The air is healthy in fpring, hot in fum- 
mer, feverifh in autumn, and unpleafantly-cold in winter. 
The town is very populous, comprehending men of all re¬ 
ligions ; but the Curds form a majority of the inhabitants. 
The bazar, or market, is large and well fupplied; and moft 
of the articles, except clothing, are at a moderate price. 
Here are various manufactories, in fome of which they 
excel the Europeans : their faddles, and trappings for 
horfes, in particular, are very elegant : they alfo make 
carpets of filk, with flowers wrought in them, which feem 
to vie with the belt of our manufactures: they are alfo 
very dexterous in making edgings and trimmings of various 
kinds. Their manufactories in iron and copper too are 
very numerous. The fpace within the walls is not en¬ 
tirely occupied with houfes, many places being covered 
with ruins, which extend to a great dillance on the banks 
of the river, and which prove that this place has formerly 
been much more extenfive and populous than it is at pre- 
fent. Merchandife from India is brought hither by way 
of Baffora, and European goods by the way of Aleppo. 
Lat. 36. 20. N. Ion. 42. 8. E. Jack/hit's Journey from India. 
MOSUN'DAH, a town of Bengal : eighteen miles 
north-north-weft of Calcutta. 
MOSZ'BACH, a town of Saxony, in the circle of Neu- 
ftadt: four miles fouth-fouth-weft of Auma. 
MOSZEI'SK, a town of Auftrian Poland, in Galicia : 
fifteen miles eaft of Lemberg. 
MOSZLICK'ZKO, a town of Auftrian Poland in Ga¬ 
licia : thirty-two miles weft of Lemberg. 
MOSZ'NO, a town of Ruffian Poland, in the palati¬ 
nate of Kiev : eighty-five miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Kiev, 
and fifty-eight fouth-eaft of Bialacerkiev. 
MOSZO'W, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
JBraclaw: feventy miles eaft of Braclaw. 
MOT', f. [French.] A word. Obfolete. — I thought 
good to give you this little mot of advice. Hoivel, vol. ii. 
■—A note which the huntfman winds on his horn. Ajh .— 
A motto: a fentence added to a device.—With his big 
title, an Italian mot. Bp. Halt's Satires. —Exprefling, by 
thofe feveral mots connexed, that, with thofe arms of 
counfel and ftrength, the Genius was able to extinguilh 
the king’s enemies. B. Jonfon's K. James's Entertainment. 
Fabius’ perpetual golden coat, 
Which might have “ Temper idem” for a mot, Marjlon, 
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MOT', or Mod, f. in the Phoenician cofmogony, de¬ 
noted either a flime, or rather an aqueous mixture, which 
was the feminal principle of all creatures, and the gene¬ 
ration of the univerfe. 
MO'TA (La), a town of Spain, in New Caftile: thirty- 
five miles fouth of Huete. 
MO'TA (La), a town of Spain, in the province of 
Leon : twenty miles weft-fouth-weft of Valladolid. 
MO'TABLE, adj. [inotabilis, Lat.] Moving ; continu¬ 
ally moving. 
MOTACIL'LA, f. the Wagtail and Warbler; a 
very extenfive genus of birds of the order pafleres, in¬ 
cluding the nightingale, robin, wren, hedge-fparrow, 
whinchat, ftonechat, pettyehaps, &c. to the amount (in¬ 
cluding Vaillant’s new difcoveries in Africa) of more than 
two hundred fpecies. Generic characters—Bill lubulate, 
ftraight; the mandibles nearly equal; noftrils fuboval; 
tongue lacerate at the end; twelve feathers in the tail. 
Of the wagtails, it is obferved that their movements 
are extremely alert, and that their tails are perpendicu¬ 
larly long, which they perpetually jerk up and down. 
Their progreffive motion is by running rather than fpring- 
ing. They rarely perch on trees. Their flight is waving, 
and accompanied with a tittering found, and their food 
confifts of flies and other fmall inlefts, in purfuit of which 
they will often purfue the hufbandman with his plough, 
and the movements of flocks of Iheep. The ivarblers are 
compofed of a great variety of birds, differing in many 
ftriking particularities of habit as well as in fize. They 
are found in almoft all parts of the world, perch on trees, 
move by leaping, and rarely utter any founds during 
their flight. They are more numerous than any genus of 
birds, and abound principally in the warm latitudes of 
the globe, where infefts, their food, are found in never- 
failing fupplies. 
1. Motacilla lufcina, the nightingale: rufous-afh; be¬ 
neath white-afh; tail-feathers rufous brown; bracelets 
cinereous. This enchanting bird has been alike appre¬ 
ciated in all countries, where the melody of its fong has 
been heard. In Greek, it has been ftyled by pre-emi¬ 
nence ari^a>, from oteiHu, to ling. Its Latin appellation 
lufcinia, is of uncertain derivation; that of philomela is 
rather poetic, and fignifies “ a lover of fong:” the Eng- 
lilh name is formed from the Saxon word jalan, to ling. 
Every perlon, whole ear is not infenfible to melody, mult 
at the name of the nightingale, recal the charms of thofe 
delightful evenings in fpring, when the air is ftill and 
ferene, and all nature Teems to liften to the fongfter of the 
grove. Other birds, the larks, the canaries, the linnets, 
the goldfinches, the blackbirds, the mocking-birds, excel 
in the feveral parts which they perform: but the nightin¬ 
gale combines the whole, and joins fweetnefs of tone with 
variety and extent of execution. His notes alTume each 
diverfity of character, and receive every change of mo¬ 
dulation ; not a part is repeated without variation; and 
the attention is kept perpetually awake, and charmed by 
the endlefs flexibility of ftrains. The leader of the ver¬ 
nal chorus begins the prelude with a low and timid voice, 
and he prepares for the hymn to nature by aflaying his 
powers and attuning his organs. “ I always obferve, ,v 
fays the Hon. Daines Barrington, “ that my nightingale 
begins foftly, like the ancient orators; referving its breath 
to fwell certain notes, which by this means had a moft 
aftonilhing efteft, and which eludes all verbal defcrip- 
tio'n.” It is by degrees that the found opens and fwells; 
it burfts with loud and vivid flalhes; it flows with frnooth 
volubility, and ffiakes with rapid and violent articula¬ 
tions; the foft breathings of love and joy are poured 
from his inmoft foul, and every heart beats unifon, and 
melts with delicious languor. But, left this continual 
richnefs might fatiate the ear, the ftrains are at times re¬ 
lieved by paufes, which bellow dignity and elevation. 
The mild filence of evening heightens the general effeft; 
and not a rival interrupts the folemn fcene. To the moft 
charming of theie loud and high-fwelling notes, the bird- 
catchers 
