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MOUSE HAR'BOU.R, a harbour on the eaft coaft of 
the ifland of St. John, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 
MOU'SE-HAWK, f A hawk that devours mice. 
MOUSE-HOLD HILL', an eminence near the city of 
Norwich, where Ket harangued his followers. 
MOU'SE-HOLE, J'. Small hole; hole at which a moufe 
only may run in.—He can creep in at a moufe-hole, but he 
loon grows too big ever to get out again, S', tilling'fleet. 
MOU'SE-HOLE, a village in Cornwall, on the weft 
tide of Mount’s Bay, 200 miles from London ; a harbour 
for filhing-boats, called in the Britilh tongue Port Inis, 
or the Port of the Ifland, becaufe there is a little ifland 
before it, called St. Clement’s. This town, with fome 
adjacent villages, was burnt by the Spaniards, anno 1595. 
MOU'SE-HUNT, J\ Moufer; a kind of weafel.—The 
ferrets and moufe-hunts of an index. Milton. 
You have been a monfe-hunt in your time. 
But I will watch you. Shakefpeare''s Romeo and Juliet. 
MOUSE RAY', a town of Africa, in the country cf 
Foulis, on Lake Cayar. Lat. 17. 36. N. Ion. 14. 21. W. 
MOU'SE-TAIL, f. An herb. See Myosurus. 
MOU'SE-TRAP, J\ A fnare or gin in which mice are 
taken.—Many analogical motions in animals, I have reafon 
to conclude, in their principles are not fimply mechanical, 
although a moufe-trap , or Architas dove, moved mecha¬ 
nically. Hale. 
MOU'SER, f One that catches mice.—When you have 
fowl in the larder, leave the door open, in pity to the cat, 
if flie be a good moufer. Swift. 
MOU'SH, a town of Turkifh Armenia, on a river 
which runs into the Euphrates: eighty-four miles fouth- 
fouth-eaft of Erzerum, and 104 north-eaft of Diarbekir. 
Lat. 38. 48. N. Ion. 41. 40. E. 
MOU'SSY, a river of Hindooftan, which croffes Gol- 
conda, and runs into the Kiftnah on the borders of the 
circar of Palnaud. 
MOUSTIE'R (Charles-Albert de), a dramatic and mif- 
cellaneous writer, born in 1761, at Villiers-Coterets, was 
educated at the college of Lifieux, and for fome time fol¬ 
lowed the profeflion of an advocate. This he deferted in 
order to devote himfelf entirely to literature, and indulge 
his tafte for rural retirement. He publifhed in 1790, 
“ Lettres a Emilie fur la Mythologie,” 6 vols. i8mo. a 
lively and ingenious work, written partly in profe and 
partly in verfe, for Che purpofe of inftru&ing the fair-fex 
in fabulous hiftory. His pen w'as, however, chiefly em¬ 
ployed for the theatres; and he wrote the comedies of 
Le Conciliateur, Les Femmes, Les Trois Fils, Le To¬ 
lerant, and Alcefte a la Campagne, which were afted with 
applaufe on the ftage, as well as feveral which proved lefs 
iuccefsful. He likewif® compofed a grand opera, entitled 
Apelles et Campafpe, which was favourably received; 
and fome poems. He died in 1800 of a confumptive dif- 
order, in the arms of his mother, with whom he lived on 
the moft affe&ionate terms, leaving behind him feveral 
compofitions in manufeript. He was a member of the 
National Inftitute, and was greatly beloved in fociety. 
Nouv. Dili. Hifl. 
MOUSTIE'RS, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lower Alps : fifteen miles fouth of Digne, and 
twelve weft of Caftellane. 
MOUSTIE'RS. See Monstiers. 
MOU'SUL. See Mosul. 
MOU'TA, a town of Portugal, in Eftramadura, on the 
left bank of the Tagus : five miles fouth of Lifbon. 
MOUTABE'A, f. in botany. See Cryptostomum. 
MOUTAHO'RA, a final! lofty ifland in the Pacific 
Ocean, near the eaft coaft of New Zealand. Lat. 37. 59. N. 
Ion. 193. 7. W. 
MOU'TH, f. [ munth , Goth, whence the Sax. muS, 
finking as in fome other words the n. The German is 
mund; and the word has long fince been derived from 
the Lat. mando, to eat. Mr. Tooke has given matjith, 
that which eateth, from matjan, mcctan, to eat, as She 
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root. Wacbter prefers meinen, to exprefs meaning, the 
more noble office of the mouth, as the original. We 
have the vulgar expreflion mans for mouth ; and in Scot¬ 
land it is munds.] The aperture in the head of any animal 
at which the food is received.—The dove came in ; and 
lo, in her mouth was an olive-leaf. Gen. viii. n.—The 
opening ; that at which any thing enters ; the entrance ; 
the part of a vefiel by which it is filled and emptied.—Set 
a candle lighted in the bottom of a bafon of water, and 
turn the mouth of a glafs over the candle, and it will make 
the'water rife. Bacon's Nat. Hi(l.—‘ The navigation of the 
Arabick gulf being more dangerous toward the bottom 
than the mouth , Ptolemy built Berenice at the entry of 
the gulf. Arbuthnot on Coins. —The inftrument of fpeak- 
ing.—There is a certain ientence got into every man’s 
mouth, that God accepts the will for the deed. South, 
Either our hiftory ftiall with full mouth 
Speak freely of our aids ; or elfe our grave. 
Like Turkifh mute, ftiall have a tonguelefs mouth, 
Not worfhipp’d with a waxen epitaph. Shakefpeare. 
A fpeaker ; a rhetorician ; the principal orator. In bur- 
lefque language. —Every coffee -houfe has fome particular 
ftatefman belonging to it, who is the mouth of the ftreet 
where he lives. Adclijim. —Cry; voice : 
Coward dogs 
Moft fpend their mouths, when what they feem to threaten 
Runs far before them. Shakejpeare's Hen. V. 
Diftortion of the mouth ; wry face, in this fenfe, is laid to 
make mouths. —Why they lliould keep running alfes at 
Colefhill, or how making mouths turns to account in War- 
wickfhire, more than any other parts of England, I can¬ 
not comprehend. Addifon. 
Perfevere, counterfeit fad looks, 
Make mouths upon me when I turn my back. Shakefpeare . 
Down in the Mouth. Dejedled ; clouded in the coun¬ 
tenance.—But, upon bringing the net alhore, it proved 
to be only one great ltone, and a few little fifties : upon this 
difippointment they were down in the mouth. L'Ejlrange. 
Dr. Derham obferves, that the mouth in tiie feveral 
fpecies of animals is nicely adapted to the ufes of fuch a 
part, and well fixed and lhaped for the formation of Ipeech, 
the gathering and receiving of food, the catching of prey, 
&c. In fome creatures it is wide and large, in others lit¬ 
tle and narrow; in fome it is formed with a deep incifure 
into the head, for the better catching and holding of prey, 
and more eafy comminution of hard, large, and trouble- 
fome, food ; and in others with a Ihorter incifure, for the 
gathering and holding of herbaceous food. In birds it is 
neatly fliaped for piercing the air; hard and horny, to 
fupply the want of teeth ; hooked, in the rapacious kind, 
to catch and hold their prey ; long and (lender in thole 
that have their food to grope for in moorifli places ; and 
broad and long in thole that fearch for it in the mud. 
Nor is the mouth lefs remarkable in infeffs ; in fome it is 
forcipated, to catch, hold, and tear, the prey ; in others 
aculeated, to pierce and wound animals, and fuck their 
blood ; in others, ftrongly rigid, with jaws and teeth, to 
gnaw and lerape out their food, carry burdens, perforate 
the earth, nay the hardeft wood, and even Hones them- 
lelves, for houfes and nelts for their young. 
To MOU'TH, J". To fpeak big; to lpeak in a ftrang 
and loud voice ; to vociferate : 
I’ll bellow out for Rome, and for my country, 
And mouth at Ctefar till I lhake the lenate. Addifom 
To MOU'TH, v. a. To utter with a voice affeiftedly 
big; to roll in the mouth with tumttlt.—Speak the fpeech 
as I pronounced it, trippingly on the tongue ; but, if you 
mouth it, I had as lieve the town-crier had (poke my lines. 
Shakefpeare's Hamlet. 
Twitch’d by the fleeve, he mouths it more and more, 
Till with white froth his gown is Haver’d o’er. Dryden . 
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