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the addition of “ Epiftolae quinque Medicinales, ab eodem 
Audtore confcriptse,” which are all dated from London 
in the years 1582, 3, and 4. Thefe epiftles contain a 
farther defence of the chemical dodfrines, fome keen re¬ 
marks on the fanciful reafonings of the Galenifts, and 
many fenfible obfervations againft abfolute fubmiffion to 
the authority of great names. The laft of thefe letters 
treats of the benefits of foreign travel to a phyfician, and 
defcribes Padua as the beft medical fchool. His liberality, 
as well as his learning, was evinced in the publication of 
another work, “ Nofomantica Hippocratica, five Hippo- 
cratis Prognoftica cunfta, ex omnibus ipfius fcriptis, 
methodice digefta, Libri ix.” Franc. 1588 : for the writ¬ 
ings of the father of phylic were treated with contempt 
by Paracelfus, and the majority of the chemical fedf. The 
laft medical work of Moufet’s is entitled “ Health’s Im¬ 
provement ; or, Rules comprifing and difcoveting the 
Nature, Method, and Manner, of preparing all forts of 
Food ufed in this Nation.” A corrected and enlarged 
edition of this book was printed by Chriftopher Benne't 
at London, 1655,410. It is a curious and entertaining 
performance, on account of the information which it 
contains refpedting the diet ufed in this country at that 
time. Moufet, however, was mod: particularly diftin- 
guiflied as a naturalift ; and he enlarged and finiffied, 
with great labour and expenfe, a work entitled “ Infec- 
torum, five minimorum Animalium Theatrum ; olirn ab 
Edw. Wottono, Conrado Gefnero, Thomaque Pennio, 
inchoatum.” It was left in manufcript, and publilhed 
in London, in 1634, by fir Theodore Mayerne, who com¬ 
plains of the difficulty he found in getting a printer to 
undertake it. An Englifh tranflation of it was publilhed 
in 1658. Though not free from the imperfections of an 
infant fcience, this was really a refpeftable and valuable 
work ; and Haller does not fcruple to place the author 
above all other entomologifts previous to Swammerdam. 
Ailiin's Biog. 
MOU'GDEN. See Chen-yang, vol. iv. p. 403. 
MOU'GH, or Mought, / [Sax. mo^e.] A moth.— 
Your clothis ben eten of moughtis. Widiffers St. James. — 
Ne movgli after bite it. P. Ploughman. 
MOUGHT. Ufed for might. Obfolete. Dr. John fan. 
—It is the pret. of the old verb moive, now converted into 
may. Todd. 
Godfrido this both heard, and faw, and knew. 
Yet nould with death them chaftife, though he mought. 
Fairfax. 
MOU'GINS, a town of France, in the department of 
the Var : five miles fouth-eall of Grade. 
MOUGO'N, a town of France, in the department of 
the Two Serves: eleven miles fouth-fouth-weft of St. 
Maixent, and eight eaft-fouth-eaft of Niort. 
MOUHU'N, a town of Hindooftan, in Lahore : ten 
miles fouth of Koofhaub. 
MO'VING, / Motive ; impulfe.—Reprefent the firft 
movings of the heart towards any forbidden objedl, as un¬ 
lawful in themfelves, and defiruftive in their conlequence. 
South. 
MO'VING, part. adj. Pathetic; touching; adapted 
to alfedt the paffions: 
Great Jupiter 
The moving prayer of ALacus did grant. 
And into men and women turn’d the ant. Blackmore. 
MO'VINGLY, adj. Pathetically; in fuch a manner as 
to feize the paffions.—The choice and flower of all things 
profitable in other books, the Pfalms do both more briefly 
and more movingly exprefs, by reafon of that poetical 
form wherewith they are written. Hooker. 
His air, his voice, his looks, and honed; foul, 
Speak all fo movingly in his behalf, 
I dare not truft mylelf to hear him talk. Addifon's Cato, 
MO'VINGNESS, / Power to aftedt the paffions.— 
There is a ftrange movingnefs, and, if the epithet be not 
M O U 
too bold, a kind of heavenly magick, to be found in fome 
paflages of the Scripture, which is to be found no where 
elfe. Boyle's Style of II. Script. 
MOUILLERON', a town of France, in the department 
of the Vendee : fix miles north-weft of Chataigneraye. 
MOU'KI, a town of Arabia, in the province of Hedsjas: 
fixty miles fouth-weft of Mecca. 
MOUL, a cape of Scotland, on the eaft coaft of the ifland 
of Shetland. Lat. 60. 24. N. Ion. 1. 10. W. 
MOUL-ELAVOU', / in botany. See Bombax. 
MOUL HEAD', a cape of Scotland, on the north coaft 
of the ifland of Papa Weftra. Lat. 59.13. N. Ion. 2. 45. W. 
MOUL HEAD', a cape on the eaft coaft of the ifland 
of Pomona. Lat. 58. 52. N. Ion. 2. 34. W. 
MOULAMKENG', a mountain of Thibet. Lat. 30. 
46. N. Ion. 99. 56. E. 
MOULAPUD'DY, a town of Hindooftan, in the pro¬ 
vince of Dindigul: feven miles north-eaft of Dindigul. 
MOULA'R, a town of Hindooftan, in the Carnatic: ten 
miles north of Tiagar. 
MOULA'R (Le), a town of France, in the department 
of the Po : three miles foutli-weft of Sufa. 
MO'ULD, J\ [from mouiller, Fr. to wet or moiften; 
mouille , anglicifed, becoming mouilled, mouill'd, mould. 
H. Tooke.—Skinner had propofed a fimilar derivation; 
Juflnefs, he fays, being the occafion of mould. Menage 
derives mouiller from the Lat. molliare, to foften.] A kind 
of concretion on the top or outfide of things kept motion- 
lefs and damp ; now difeovered by microicopes to be per¬ 
fect plants. See the article Mucor. —All moulds are 
inceptions of putrefadtion, as the moulds of pies and flefh, 
which moulds turn into worms. Mofs is a kind of mould 
of the earth and trees, but may be better forted as a rudi¬ 
ment of germination. Another fpecial affinity is between 
plants and mould, or putrefadtion ; for all putrefadtion, 
if it diflolve not in arefadtion, will, in the end, iffue into 
plants. Bacon's Nat. Hift. 
MO'ULD,/ [Saxon.] Earth; foil; ground in which 
any thing grows.—The black earth, every where obvious 
on the furface of the ground, we call mould. Woodward. 
—For the different fpecies of mould, fee the generic title 
Humus, vol. x. p. 463.—Thofe moulds that are of a bright 
chefnut or hazelly cblour are accounted the beft; next to 
that, the dark grey and ruflet moulds are accounted beft; 
the light and dark afti-colour are reckoned the worft, fuch 
as are ufually found on common or heathy ground : the 
clear tawny is by no means to be approved, but that of a 
yellowifli colour is reckoned the worft of all; this is com¬ 
monly found in wild and wafte parts of the country, and 
for the moft part produces nothing but gofs, furze, and 
fern. All good lands after rain, or breaking-up by the 
fpade, will emit a good fmell; that being always the belt 
that is neither too undtuous or too lean, but fuch as yrid 
eafily diflolve ; of a juft confiftence between fand and clay. 
Miller. 
Though worms devour me, though I turn to mould, 
Yet in my flefli I ffiall his face behold. Sandys. 
Matter cf which any thing is made : 
Nature form’d me of her fofteft mould. 
Enfeebled all my foul with tender paffions. 
And funk me even below my weaker fex. Addifon's Cato. 
MO'ULD, / [molde, Span, moule, Fr.] The matrix in 
which any thing is call; in which any thing receives its 
form.-—If the liturgies of all the ancient churches be com¬ 
pared, it may be perceived they had all one original mould. 
Hooker.—We may hope for new heavens and a new earth, 
more pure and perfedt than the former; as if this was a 
refiner’s fire, to pfirge out the drofs and coarfe parts, and 
then call the mafs again into a new and better mould. 
Burnet. 
The liquid ore he drain’d 
Into fit moulds prepar’d ; from which he form’d 
Firft his own tools : then what might elfe be wrought 
Fulile, or gray’# in metal. Milton. 
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