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To chew ; to eat; to grind in the moutk ; 
Corne carried, let fuch as be poore go and giean. 
And after thy cartel to mouth it up clean. TvJJer's H\fb. 
Death lines his dead chaps with fteel ; 
The fwords of loldiers are his teeth, his phangs ; 
And now he feafts, mouthing the fleih of men. Shahefpeare, 
To feize in the mouth.—He keeps them, like an apple, 
in the corner of his jaw ; firft mouth'd to be laft fwaliowed. 
Shaltefpeare's Hamlet. 
Mutius and Lupus both by name he brought ; 
He mouth'd them, and betwixt his grinders caught. Dryd. 
To form by the mouth.—In regard the cub comes forth 
involved in the chorion, a thick membrane obfcuring the 
formation, and which the dam doth after tear afunder ; 
the beholderat firft fight imputes theenfuing form to the 
mouthing of the dam. Brown. —To infult; to attack with 
reproachful language : 
If, when men died, at once they ceas’d to be, 
Returning to the barren womb of nothing. 
Whence firft they fprung ; then might the debauchee 
Untrembling mouth the heavens. Blair's Grave. 
MOU'TH-FRIEND, J. One who profefies friendihip 
without intending it: 
May you a better feaft never behold, 
You knot of mouth-friends : fmoke and lukewarm water 
Is your perfection. Shahefpeare. 
MOU'TH-HONOUR, f. Civility outwardly exprefied 
without fincerity: 
Honour or love, obedience, troops of friends, 
I mull not look to have; but, in their Head,' 
Curies not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath. Shakefp. 
MOU'TH-MADE, adj. Exprefied by the mouth with¬ 
out any intention of the heart. Shahefpeare. 
MOU'TH-PIECE, f. The little piece of a trumpet, or 
other wind-inftrument, to which the mouth is applied ; 
and which is taken off from the inftrunient when not 
blown. In colloquial language, one who delivers the fen- 
timents of others aflociated in the fame defign : as. He 
was the mouth-piece of the meeting. 
MOU'THE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Doubs: eighteen miles fouth-eaft of Salins, and thir¬ 
teen fouth-w’eft of Pontarlier. 
MOU'THED, adj. Furniflied with a mouth : 
One tragick fentence if I dare deride. 
Which Betterton’s grave action dignify’d, 
Or -weW-mouth'd Booth with emphafis proclaims. Pope. 
Incompofition,foul-j«0!/</<ef/ is contumelious; and a liard- 
mouthed liorfe is a horfe not obedient to the bit. See 
Mealy-mouthed. 
MOUTHFUL,^ What the mouth contains at once. 
Any proverbially fmall quantity.—A goat, going out for 
a mouthful of frelh grafs, charged her kid not to open the 
door till fhe came back. L’Eftrange. 
You to your own Aquinum fliall repair, 
To take a mouthful of fweet country air. Drydcn's Juv. 
MOU'THLESS, adj. Being without a mouth. 
MOUTIE'R, a town of France, in the department of 
the Upper Rhine, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
trift of Delemont. The place contains 4.67, and the can¬ 
ton 3977, inhabitants. 
MOUTIE'R d’AHUN', a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Creufe: nine miles fouth-eaft of Gueret, 
and nine north-weft of Aubuflon. 
MOUTIE'R St. JEAN', a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Cote d’Or : three miles north of Semur 
cn Auxois. 
MOUTIE'RS, a town of Swiflerland, divided into the 
porthern and fouthern parts: the former contains 1470 
inhabitants, the latter has 1535 inhabitants. 
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MOUTIE'RS, or Mun'ster, a town of Germany; 
twenty miles fouth-fouth-weft of Bale, and fourteen fouth- 
eaft of Porentrui. 
MOUTIE'RS (Trois), a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Vienne, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftriift of Loudun. The place contains 1257, and the 
canton 7599, inhabitants, in 16 communes. 
MOU 1 IE'RS les BAIN'S, a town of France, in the 
department of the Allier, on theAllieri two miles weft 
of Culfet, and ten eaft of Gannat. 
MOUTIERS-les-MAUXFAI'TS, a town of France, 
m the department of the Vendee, and chief place of a can¬ 
ton, in the diftrift of Les Sables d’Olonne : fourteen miles 
eaft of it, and ten weft of Lupon. The place contains 349, 
and the canton 10,634, inhabitants. 
MOUTO'N (Jean), a great mufician, who flourilhed in 
the time of Louis XII. and Francis I. to both which 
princes he was maeftro di capella. Several of his mafles 
in four parts appear among the firft that were printed with 
types, under a patent granted by Leo X. and iigned by 
cardinal Bembo, his prime minifter. Glareanus calls him 
a Frenchman ; but Lud. Guicciardini claims him as a na¬ 
tive of the Netherlands. Wherever he was born, it is 
certain that he fpent t/re chief part of his life in the fer- 
vice of the French court, during the reigns of Louis XII. 
and Francis I. He was a difciple of Jofquin, and mafter 
of Adrian Willaert, not his fcholar, as Printz, and others 
after him, have aflerted. 
Notwithftanding the rapture with which Glareanus 
fpeaks of this compofer’s maffes, they feem to us inferior 
in. melody, rhythm, and defign, to thole of Jofquin, de 
la Rue, and Fevin. His motets, however, if not more 
nervous and elaborate than thofe of his contemporaries, 
are more finooth and poliftied ; but he lived in a court! 
His motet, “ Non nobis, Dornine,” is not only pleafing, 
but mafterly. It was compofed in 1509, for the birth of 
Renee, the fecond daughter of Louis XII. by Anne of 
Bretagne, as appears in the body of the motet; and this 
is fufficient to confute the opinion of Mouton having- 
been the fcholar of Adrian Willaert, who, according to 
his own account, went into Italy very young, during the 
pontificate of Leo X. He compofed another motet in 
1514, on the death of queen Anne de Bretagne ; but the 
beft of his compofitions that we have feen, is the motet, 
“ Quam pulchra es, arnica mea,” from the Song of Solo! 
mon. It is compofed for three tenors and a bafe; the 
fubjefts of fugue are pleafing, and treated with uncom¬ 
mon clearnefs and abilities, for fo early a period of coun¬ 
terpoint. The time of his death is not known. 
MOUTON d’O'R, f. The name of an old French 
coin. 
MOUTOU'CHIA, f. in botany. See Pterocarpus. 
MOU'Y, a town of France, in the department of the 
Oife : fix miles fouth-fouth-weft of Clermont, and twelve 
fouth-eaft of Beauvais. 
MOU'ZA, a town of Italy, near Milan, fituated on a 
little ifland in the river Lambro. In this town was 
formerly, kept a golden crown, formed with an internal 
hoop of iron, and therefore called the iron crown, with 
which the German emperors, in former times, were 
crowned as kings of Lombardy. 
MOUZANBA'NO, a town of Italy, on the Veronefe: 
fourteen miles fouth-weft of Verona. 
MOU'ZIN, or Mosyn (Michael), a Dutch engraver, 
was born at Amfterdam in the year 1636. In the execu¬ 
tion of his plates he united the point and the graver, but 
not fuccefsfully; for his ftyle is heavy and laboured, and 
his drawing incorreft. The following of his works are 
moff worthy of notice : Admiral Van Wafi’enaer, of Hol¬ 
land, in 4to. oval; Admiral Ruyter, in folio; Cornelius 
de Witt, large folio ; John Van Galen ; a Dutch admiral, 
large folio ; a Couchant Venus ; the Four Elements un¬ 
der the Empire of Venus, large folio; Children dancing 
to a Tambourin and Triangle, played by a Woman and a 
Satyr, 
