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thefe ufeful animals ffiould be' well drefied, and not have 
too much work; for every creature is affedled wit*? weak- 
nefs at this period. 
MO'ULTING, adj. Under the influence of the moult: 
The widow’d turtle hangs her moulting wings. 
And to the woods in mournful murmurs lings. Garth. 
MO'ULTONBOROUGH, a town of New' Hampfhire, 
now called New' Hampton. 
MOULTRIEVIL'LE, a town of South Carolina, on 
Sullivan’s Head. 
7 n MOU'NCH, Maunch, orMoucii, v.a. [This word 
is retained in Scotland, and denotes the obtunded adtion 
of toothlefs gums on a hard cruft, or any thing eatable: 
it feems to be a corruption of the French word manger, to 
eat, or macher, to chew.] To chew; to mafticate.—Some 
of them would mouche their meate alone. Chaucer's Tv. 
and Or. 
A failor’s wife had chefnuts in her lap, 
And mouncht, and mouncht, and mouncht. Shahefpeare. 
MOU'ND, f. [munbran, Sax. to defend.] Anything 
raifed to fortify or defend : ufually a bank of earth and 
ltone.—The ftate of Milan is like a vaft garden furrounded 
by a noble mound of rocks and mountains. Addijbn. 
No cold Ihall hinder me with horns and hounds 
To thrid the thickets, or to leap the mounds. Dryden. 
To MOU'ND, v. a. To fortify with a mound : 
We will fweep the curled vallies 
Brulh the banks that mound our alleys; 
We will muller nature’s dainties. Drayton. 
MOU'ND, /. [ monde , Fr.] In heraldry, a ball or globe 
with a crofs upon it, fuch as our kings are ufually drawn 
with, holding it in their left hand, as they do the feeptre 
in the right. See London, vol. xiii. p. 442. 
MOU'NEE, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
HifTar: twenty miles north-welt of Hiffar. 
MOUNESNESS', a cape on the fouth-eaft coaft of the 
jfland of Unit, one of the Shetland Iflands. Lat. 61. 3. N. 
Ion. 1. 2. W. 
MOU'NSEY (John Meftenger, M. D.), anEnglifh phy¬ 
sician of fome eminence, but of the early part of whofe 
long life very little is known, w r as born in the year 1692. 
In 1742 we find him at Abo in Finland, the head-quar¬ 
ters of the Ruffian army, with the title of phyfician to the 
army of the czarina ; whence he tranfmitted to the Royal 
Society “ An Abftraft of the Remarkable Cafe and Cure 
of a Woman, from whom a Fetus was extradled, that had 
been lodged 13 Years in one of the Fallopian Tubes;” 
which is printed in the Phil. Tranf. for 1747, 8. vol. lxv. 
After his return from abroad. Dr. Mounfey was elefted 
phyfician to Chelfea Hofpital; which fituation he enjoyed 
for a number of years, to the great difappointment of fe- 
veral other phyiicians, to whom the reverfion of that 
place had been promifed. Dr. M. was a very eccentric 
character; and, although the few written documents, 
which he has left on medical or other fubjedts, poflefs 
no remarkable excellence; yet we are told that in his con- 
verfation he difeovered great ftrength of underftanding, 
joined to an exquifite degree of humour. He died in 
Dec. 1788, at the advanced age of ninety-fix. In the 
morning on which he died, he faid to his attendant, “ I 
filial! certainly lofe the game.” Being afked what game ? 
he replied, “ The game of too, which I have played for 
very earneftly many years; but I ffiall now lofe it, for I 
expedt to die in a few hours:” and his prediction proved 
true. By his will he directed that his body fiiould not 
fufter any funeral ceremony, but undergo riifiedtjon 5 
after which, the “ remainder of his carcafe (to ufe his own 
expreffion) may be put into a hole, or crammed into a box 
with holes, and thrown into the Thames,” at the plea- 
lure of the furgeon. The furgeon to whom he affign- 
ed this charge was Mr. Forfter, of Union-court, Broad- 
ftreet. In purfuance of the dodlor’s lingular will, Mr. F. 
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gave a difeourfe, in the theatre of Guy’s Hofpital, to the 
medical ftudents and a confiderable number of intelligent- 
vifitors, on the difiection of the body. He introduced 
the fubjeft by a fketch of the mental powers of Dr. M. ob- 
ferving, that his underftanding was very comprehenfive, 
that his genius and wit ranked him high in the literacy 
world, that his company was courted by men of the firlt 
charadter for talents and diftindlion, and that he retained 
the ftrength of his judgment, and the livelinefs of hi:, 
fancy', to the very advanced period at which his life ended. 
He vindicated the dodtor from all afteftation, vanity, or 
whim, in having ordered his body for difledtion, and pro¬ 
hibited all funeral ceremony, ftating, that whatever of fin- 
gularity might appear in his will was refolvable merely 
into a zeal for knowledge, and a defire of benefiting man¬ 
kind, as he conceived that a diftedtion of his body would 
lead to the illullration of much ufeful truth. He men¬ 
tioned alfo the philofophic contempt in which the dodtor 
held all funeral pomp, and every fpecies of unneceffary 
form. Mr. F. then advertedto the morbid parts which he 
had prepared for demonftration, describing the appearance 
of {he thorax and the abdomen, with their vifeera. The 
molt remarkable circumftance he mentioned was, “that all 
the cartilages between the vertebrae were abforbed, conft- 
quently the lpine was one entire bone:” hence the extreme 
difficulty the clodlor experienced, for many y'ears, in riling 
from the horizontal pofttion. After the whole of the de¬ 
monftration he faid, that, having made his report of thefe 
morbid affedtions to Dr. Heberden, according to the will, 
he fiiould depofit all the parts with thefe fingular appear¬ 
ances in the mufeutn of Mr. Cline, as that able anatomift: 
would doubtlefs, in his ledtures, be able to render them 
fubfervient to the promotion of public utility. Gent. Mag. 
1788, p. 1183. 
MOU'NT, J\ [munt;, Sax. mont, Fr. 7110ns, Lat.] A 
mountain; a hill.—The words mount and mountain are 
fynonymous; but the former is lcarcely ever tiled in prole, 
unlefs when accompanied with fome proper name ; as 
mount ./Etna, mount Gibel, mount Lebanon, mount Sinai, 
mount Atlas, mount Parnaffus, See. Chambers.- —Jacob of¬ 
fered facrifice upon the mount. Gen. xxxi. 54. 
Behold yon mountain’s hoary height, 
Made higher with new mounts of liiovv. Dryden. 
An artificial hill raifed in a garden or other place.— He 
might fee what jnoimts they had in Ihort time call:, and 
whata number there was of warlike foldiers. Knolles. —A 
public treafure ; a bank. Now obsolete. —Thele examples 
confirmed me in a refolution to fpend my time wholly in 
writing; and to put forth that poor talent God hath given 
me, not to particular exchanges, but to banks or inounts 
of perpetuity, which will not break. Bacon. 
To MOU'NT, v. n. [monter, Fr.] To rife on high.—• 
Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her 
neft on high ? Job, iii. 27. 
The fire of trees and houfes moimts on high, 
And meets half-way new fires that lhow’r from Ik}'. Cowley; 
To tower; to be built up to great elevation.—Though his 
excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach 
unto the clouds, yet he ffiall perilh. Job, xx. 6 .—To get on 
horfeback.—He was reaaie to his fteede to mount. Spenjcr, ■ 
—[For amount .] To attain in value : 
Bring then thefe bleffings to aftridt account, 
Make fair dedudtions, lee to what they mount. Pope. 
To MOU'NT, v.a. To raife aloft; to lift on high.—The 
air is fo thin, that a bird has therein no feeling of her 
wings, or any refiftance of air to mount herfelf by. Raleigh. 
What power is it which 7nounts my love fo high. 
That makes me lee, and cannot feed mine eye ? Shahefp. 
To afeend ; to climb : 
Shall we niount again the rural throne, 
And rule the country kingdoms once our own. Dryden. 
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