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title which he bore was treacherously holding him in a 
conversation which he could form no fufpicion from, the 
afl'affin Hill, being at his back, firft gave him a defperate 
blow on the head with his left hand, and immediately af¬ 
terwards, before Mountfort had time to draw and ftand 
on his defence, he, with the fword he held ready in his 
right, ran him through the body. This laft.circumllance 
Mr. Mountfort declared, as a dying man, to Mr. Bancroft, 
the 1 'urgeon who attended him. Hill immediately made 
his efcape ; but lord Mohun was feized, and Hood his trial; 
but, as it did not appear that he immediately aflilled Hill 
in perpetrating this afi'afiination, and that, although lord 
Mohun had joined with the captain in his threats of re¬ 
venge, yet the a£lual mention of murder could not be 
proved, his lordfhip was acquitted by his peers. He after¬ 
wards, however, himfelf loft his life in a duel with the 
duke of Hamilton, in which it has been hinted that fome 
of the fame kind of treachery, of which he had been an 
abettor in the above-mentioned affair, was putin practice 
againft himfelf. Mr. Mountfort’s death happened in 
Norfolk-ftreet, in the Strand, in the winter of 1691. His 
body was interred in the church-yard of St. Clement 
Danes. He left behind him fix dramatic pieces, the titles 
of which may be feen in the Biographia Dramatica, from 
which this article is taken. 
MOU'NTING, f. Alcent.—From this the beholder 
defcending many lleps, was afterwards conveyed again 
by feveral mountings to various entertainments of his 
Icent and fight. Wotton on Architecture. —The ornaments 
that raife and let off a work; as, the mounting of a fnuff- 
box, of a fan, &c.—Preparation for a warlike expedition 
or purfuit: 
There was mounting ’mongft Graemes of the Netherby 
clan; 
Forfters, Fenwicks, and Mufgraves, they rode and they 
ran. Scott's Marmion. 
MOU'NTINGLY, adv. By afcent: 
I leap'd for joy, 
So mountingly, I touch’d the liars, methought. Majfuiger. 
MOUNTMEL'LICK, a town of Ireland, in Queen's 
County, fituated on a fmall river, which foon after runs 
into the Barrow : five miles north of Maryborough, and 
forty-two well-fouth-weft of Dublin. 
MOUNTR ATH 1 , a town of Ireland, in Queen’s County. 
Iron forges and furnaces have been long eredted in the 
neighbourhood of this town, but from the fcarcity of 
charcoal have not been in regular ufe ; the woollen ma¬ 
nufacture is carried on, and forms the principal trade. It 
is Jix miles well-fouth-weft of Maryborough, and twenty- 
three north of Kilkenny. 
MOU'NTY, f. [montec, Fr.] The rife of a hawk.— 
The fport which Balilius would fliew toZelmane, was the 
■mounty at a heron, which, getting up on his waggling 
wings with pain, as though the air next to the earth were 
not fit to fly through, now diminilhed the fight of himfelf. 
Sidney. 
MOUR, a town of Nubia, fo called from a fpring of 
bitter water: 180 miles weft of Syene. 
MOUR, a town of Hindooftan, in Dowlatabad : ten 
miles weft of Beder.—A town of Hindooftan, in Oude : 
fix miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Manickpour. 
MOU'RA, a town of Portugal, in Alentejo. It con¬ 
tains two parilh-churches, an hofpital, feveral convents, 
and about 4000 inhabitants/ It is thirty-feven miles 
fouth-fouth-eaft of Evora, and eighty-two eaft-fouth-eaft 
of Lilbon. Lat. 38. 7. N. Ion. 7. 21. W. 
MOU'RA, a town of Africa, on the Gold Coaft : five 
miles norfh-ealt of Cape Coaft Caftle. 
MOURA'O, a town of Portugal, in the province of 
Alentejo, on the Guadiana. It is defended by a caftle, 
and contains about 1400 inhabitants : ninety miles eaft- 
fouth-eaft of Lilbon, and twenty-eight eaft of Evora. Lat. 
58. 20. N. Ion. 7. 8. W. 
MOURE'RA, f. in botany. See Lacis. 
M O U 
MOU'RGUES (Michael), a celebrated French philo- 
fopher and mathematician, born in fome part of the pro¬ 
vince of Auvergne, about the year 1643. He taught 
rhetoric and the mathematics in different houfes belong¬ 
ing to his order, and afterwards filled for many years the 
chair of profeffor-royal in thofe fciences at the univerfify 
of Touloufe, with very great fuccefs and reputation. He 
died at that city in the year 1713, about the age of fe- 
venty, a facrifice to his exertions in the caufe of humanity 
and religion, during a peftilential diforder which then ra¬ 
vaged Touloufe. To profound erudition he united the 
moll polilhed and amiable manners, which made his ac¬ 
quaintance much fought for by men of letters; and his 
piety and probity rendered him no lefs dear to all good 
men, than refpedlable to libertines themfeives, to vvhofe 
reformation his labours were zealoufly dire died. So fer¬ 
tile was his pen, that almoft every year he produced fome 
piece of poetry, and a treatife on a moral or fcientific fub- 
jedt. The belt known and elleemed of his productions 
are, 1. New Elements of Geometry, according to a parti¬ 
cular Method, comprifed in lefs than fifty Propoiitions, 
izmo. 2. A Parallel between Chriftian Morality and that 
of the ancient Philofophers, defigned to Ihow the Supe¬ 
riority of our facred Maxims to thofe of human Wifdom, 
1702, 12mo. accompanied with a tranilation of the Ma¬ 
nual of Epidletus; and the Greek paraphrafe on that ma¬ 
nual by an ancient folitary ; a Life of Epidletus ; and a 
tranilation of the Letter of Arrian to Lucius Gellius. 3. 
An explanation of the Theology of the Pythagoreans, 
and of the other learned Sedls in Greece, for the Purpofe 
of illuftrating the polemical Writings of the Fathers 
againft the Pagans, 1712 ; 2 vols. Svo. accompanied with 
a French verfion of the Therapeutics of Theodoret, and 
Two Differtations, one On the Reign of Seiyiramis, and 
the other On the Ancient Oracles. 4. A Treatife on 
French Poetry, 1684, iamo. reprinted at Paris in 1724, by 
father Brumoy, with the addition of obfervations on the 
different kinds of poetry. 5. Colledlion of Bons-mots, 
in French Verfe, See. &c. Moreri. 
MOU'RI, a town of Africa, in Foota. Lat. 10. 43. N. 
Ion. 11.5. W. 
MOURICOU', f. in botany. See Erythrina. 
MOURI'RI. See Petaloma. 
MOURMOIRON', a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Vauclufe : feventeen miles north-eaft of 
Avignon. 
To MO'URN, v. n. [mournan , Goth, mupnan, Sax. 
morner, old Fr.] To grieve ; to be forrowful.—They re¬ 
joice at the prefence of the fun, and mourn at the abience 
thereof. Bacon's Nat. HiJ't. 
He mourn'd in earneft, when the captive ark 
Maim’d his brute image, head and hands lopt off. Milton. 
To wear the habit of forrow.—We mourn in black; why 
mourn we not in blood ? Shakrjpeare. 
Friends in fable weeds appear, 
Grieve for an hour, perhaps then mourn a year; 
And bear about the mockery of woe 
To midnight dances. Pope. 
To MO'URN, v. a. To grieve for; to lament.—The 
mufe that mourns him now his happy triumph lung. 
Dryden. 
As comfortlefs as when a father mourns 
His children all in view deilroy’d at once. Milton. 
Portius himfelf oft falls in tears before me. 
As if he mourn'd his rival’s ill fuccefs. Addifon's Cato. 
To utter in a forrowful manner : 
The love-lorn nightingale, 
Nightly to thee her fad long mourneth well. Milton's Comus. 
MOU'RNAND, a town of France, in the department 
of the Rhone and Loire : twelve miles fouth-weft of Lyons, 
MO'URNE, /! [monte, Fr.] The round end of a ftaff; 
the part of a lance to which the Heel part is fixed, or where' 
it 
