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upon the death of Socrates not long after he had been 
i'entenced to death by their judges. 
The ancients had a remarkable way of mourning for 
foldiers llain, in battle. The whole army attended the 
funeral folemnities, with their arms reverfed ; it being cul- 
tomary for mourners, in moll of their aft ions, to behave 
themfelves in a manner contrary to what was ufual at 
other times. In thole places where it was the falhion to 
wear long hair, mourners were lhaved ; and, where others 
ftiaved, mourners wore long hair. The conjecture ot 
thole, therefore, is frivolous, who imagine that the fol¬ 
diers turned the heads of their Ihields downwards, left the 
gods, whofe images were engraved upon them, fhould be 
polluted with the fight of a corpfe; iince not the gods 
only, but any other figures, were frequently reprefented 
on Ihields; and not only the few near the corpfe, but the 
whole company, held their Ihields in the fame polition ; 
not to mention that other arms were alfo pointed down¬ 
wards. Potter's Archaol. Grcec. tom. ii. 
The mournings of the Eaftern nations of Indians are 
much more clolely followed, though of much fhorter du¬ 
ration than ours. After the death of a near relation, they 
mourn fifteen days, during which time they eat nothing 
but rice and water; they are not to chew betel, or to ufe 
the common walhings in this time ; but they are to do 
afts of charity, fuch as diftributing food to the poor ; and 
prayers are faid, intreating the Almighty to forgive the 
fins of the dead perfon, and alfign him a good place in 
the other world. On the lixteenth day, that is, the day 
after the finilhing of the time of mourning, they make a 
i’olemn feaft according to their abilities, and invite to it 
all their friends and neighbours. After this, they an¬ 
nually, on this day, give food to the poor, and renew their 
prayers for the happinefs of the dead perfon. Phil. Tranf. 
X\° 24.3. 
MO'URNING, adj. Appertaining to grief, or'to the 
appearance of grief.—Feign thyfelf to be a mourner, and 
put on mourning apparel. 2 Sam. xiv. 2. 
Publifh it that file is dead ; 
Maintain a mourning oftentation, 
Hang mournful epitaphs. Shakefpeare''s Much Ado. 
MO'URNINGLY, adv. With the appearance of borrow¬ 
ing.—The king fpoke of him admiringly and mourningly. 
Shakefpeare. 
MOURO'N, a town of France, in the department of 
the Seine and Marne : three miles weft of Coulommiers. 
MOURO'N, a mountain of Thibet. Lat. 30. 20. N. 
Ion. 83. 14.. E. 
MOROU-CON'GHE, a town of Thibet: feventy-fix 
miles eaft-north-eaft of Lafla. 
MOUROUCO'A, f. in botany, a climbing flirub of the 
p.atural order of Convolvuli, found by Aublet in the ex- 
tenfive forefts of Guiana, where it afeends to the fummits 
of the loftieft trees. He calls it M. violacea. The root is 
perennial; leaves alternate, ftalked, elliptical, acute, entire, 
firm, fmooth, fix inches long and three broad. Flowers 
in axillary tufts, large, and falver-lhaped ; calyx in five 
deep rounded fegments, two of them concealing the reft, 
violet-coloured, permanent; corolla blue, flat, monope- 
talous, with a fliort funnel-fhaped tube, and broad limb, 
in five deep rounded fegments; ftamens five, inferted into 
the tube, fhorter than the limb, and oppoiite to each of 
its lobes; antherae incumbent; capfule oval, pointed, 
with a fibrous coat, of twm cells, one of the three which 
exift in the germen being abortive ; feeds folitary, reddifh, 
polifhed, long, convex on the outfide, flat on the inner, 
almoft an inch and a half thick. 
This plant is perhaps juftly referred to Convolvulus by 
Willdenow. He calls it Convolvulus macrofpermus. 
MOURTE'AH, a town of Kemaoon : twenty-five 
miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Kerigar. 
MOU'RZOUK, a city of Africa, and capital of the 
kingdom ofFezzan, fituated on the banks of a fmall river, 
and well fupplied with water by a multitude of wells and 
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fprings. It is furrounded by a high wall, which not only 
furniihes the means of defence, but affords to the govern¬ 
ment an opportunity of collecting, at its three gates, a tax 
on all goods (provifions excepted) that are brought in. 
Being formerly built with ftone, it ftill retains the appel¬ 
lation of a Chriftian town ; and the medley which it pre,- 
fents to the eye, of the vaft ruins of ancient buildings, 
and of the humble cottages of earth and find, that form 
the dwellings of its prelent Arab inhabitants, is Angu¬ 
larly grotefque and grange. It is 262 miles fouth of 
Mefurata, and 94.0 north-eaft of Tombuftou. Lat. 27. 
28. N. Ion. 13. 35. E. 
MOU'SA, a fmall ifland among the Shetlands. Lat. 60. 
24-. N. Ion. 1. 20. W. 
MOUSANAGUR', a town of Hindooftan, in Oude : 
eighteen miles weft-north-weft of Corah. 
MOTJ'SAR, a town of Perfia, in Lariftan : forty-eight 
miles north-well of Lar. 
MOU'SE, f. plural mice; [muy, Sax. mas, Lat.] The 
fmalleft of all beafts; a little animal haunting houles and 
corn-fields, deftroyed by cats. See the article Mus.— 
This ftrufture of hair I have oblerved in the hair of cats, 
rats, and mice. Derham's Pliyjice-Tlieol. 
The eagle England being in prey, 
To her unguarded neft the weafel Scot 
Comes fneaking, and fo fucks her princely eggs ; 
Playing the niouj'e in abfence of the cat. Shakejpeare. 
Where mice and rats devour poetic bread, 
And with heroic verfe luxurioufly were fed. Dryden. 
Formerly a word of endearment.—Why, moufe, thy mind 
is nibbling at fomething. Mid. and Deh. Roaring Girl. 
Then part they all, each one unto their houfe ; 
And who had mark’d the pretty looks that pall 
From privy friend unto his pretty moufe , 
Would fay with me at twelve o’clock at night. 
It was a party, trull me, worth the fight. Breton. 
A term applied to part of a leg of beef; the moufe-bvit- 
tock: [muys, Teut. a llelhy part.] 
Mouse, in fea-language, is a fort of knob ufually in 
the lhape of a pear, wrought on the outfide of a rope, by 
means of fpun-yarn, parlling, See. and ufed to confine 
lome other fecurely to the former, and prevent it from. 
Hiding along its furface. 
Dor-MousE. See Myoxus. 
Sure w-Mouse. SeeSoREX. 
To MOUSE, v. 71. To catch mice : 
A falcon tow’ring, in his pride of place 
Was by a moujing owl hawk’d at and kill’d. Shakefpeare. 
It is fuppofed to mean, in the following palfage, fiy; inli- 
dious, or predatory ; rapacious ; interefted.—A whole af- 
fembly of moujing faints, under the malk of zeal and good 
nature, lay many kingdoms in blood. L'Ej'trange. 
To MOUSE, v. a. To tear in pieces, as a cat devours a 
moufe.—Well moufed, lion ! Shakefpeare's Midjummer N. 
Dream. 
It had been worfe to have been prifoner 
To fuch a bealt; who, though he doth not bear 
A moule’s heart, might have mouz'd me. Fanjhaw * 
MOUSE (Eall), a fmall ifland on the north coaft of the 
ifland of Anglelea: three miles weft of Hilary Point. 
MOUSE (Middle), a fmall ifland near the north coaft; 
of the ifland of Anglefea: feven miles well of Hilary 
Point. 
MOUSE (Weft), a fmall ifland near the north coaft of 
the ifland of Anglelea : twelve miles weft of Hilary Point. 
MOU'SE-EAR, J\ A plant. See Hieracium and Myo- 
sotis. f 
To him that hath a flux, of ftiepherds-purfe he gives, 
And moufe-ear unto Him whom lome ftiarp rupture grieves. 
Drayt 07 i. 
MOUSE-EAR CHICK'WEED. See Cerastiumv 
MOUSE 
