M O -W 
S;vtyr > another group of Three Children dancing; and a 
Satyr prefenting a Bunch of p rapes to a Female and 
Child : all after Bolftein, in folio. 
MOUZON', a town of France, in the department of 
the Ardennes, on the Meufe. This town was the capital 
of a (mail territory belonging to the arehbrfhop of Rheims, 
• who alienated it to Charles V. in the year 1379. It has 
often been taken and retaken in the wars between France 
and the empire, and continued fortified till the year 1671, 
when Louis XIV. ordered the fortifications to be deftroyed. 
Here is a manufafture of ferges. It is nine miles fouth- 
eaft of Sedan, and twelve north-weft of Montmedy. Lat. 
4.9. 36. N. Ion. 5. 9. E. 
MOUZON', a river of France, which runs into the 
Meufe at Neufchatel, in the department of the Vofges. 
MOW, a town of Hindooftan, in the country of Alla¬ 
habad : fix miles north-weft of Chatterpour, and fixty 
eaft-north-eaft of Chanderee. A town of Hindooftan, in 
Oude: twenty miles fcuth-eaft of Azimgur.—A town of 
Hindooftan, in the circarof Chanderee : eight miles fouth- 
eaft of Seronge:—A town of Hindooftan, in Oude: fixteen 
miles north-north-eaft of Furruckabad.—A town of Hin¬ 
dooftan, in Bogilcund : thirty miles eaft of Rewah.— 
A town of Hindooftan, in Bahar: twelve miles north- 
eaft of Hhjypour. Lat. 25. 4.9. N. Ion. 85. 36. E.—A town 
of Hindooftan, in Oude: eighteen miles eaft-north-eaft 
of Fyzabad. — A town of Hindooftan, in Allahabad: 
twenty miles north of Allahabad. Lat. 25. 57. N. Ion. 
83. 4.8. E.—A town of Hindooftan, in Allahabad : eight 
miles north-weft of Chatterpour. Lat. 25. 3. N. Ion. 
79. 53. E. 
MOW', / [mope, Sax. a heap.] A heap of com or 
hay; when laid up in a houfe, laid to be in mow; when 
heaped together in a field, in rich. —Beans when moift 
give in the mow. Mortimer's Hujbandry. 
Where'er I gad, I Blouzelind fhall view, 
Woods, dairy, barn, and mores, our paftion. knew. Gay. 
To MOW', v. n. To put in a mow. 
To MO'W, v. a prefer, mowed, part, mown ;. [mapan, 
Sax. Mow the noun, and mow the verb, meaning to put 
in a mow, is pronounced as now; mow to cut, as nw.] To 
ciit with a feythe.-—Beat, roil, and more, carpet-walks and 
cammomile. Evelyn. 
Of all the feed that in my youth was fowne, 
Was nought but brakes and brambles to be mown. Spenfer. 
To cut down with fpeed and violence.—He will mow 
down all before him, and leave his paflage poll’d. S/takef- 
pcare's Coriolanus. 
What valiant foemen, like to autumn’s corn, * 
Have we mow'd down. ShakeJ'pearc's Hen. VI. 
Thou and I, marching before our troops, 
May tafte fate to ’em; mow ’em out a paflage. 
Begin the noble harveft of the field. " Dryclen. 
Stands o’er the proferate wretch, and as he lay, 
Vain tales inventing, and prepar’d to pray, 
Mows off his head. Dry den's /Ends. 
To MO'W, v . n. To gather the harveft: 
Ours is the harveft where the Indians mow; 
We plough the deep, and reap what others fow. Waller. 
MOW', f. [probably corrupted from mouth; moue, Fr.] 
Wry mouth; diftorted face. Out of ufe, except in Scot¬ 
land. —Thofe that would make mowes at him while my 
father lived, give twenty ducats a-piece for his pi&ure 
in little. S/takefpeare. 
Apes and monkeys, 
’Twixt two fuch file’s, would chatter this ivay, and 
Contemn with mows the other. • Shahefpearc. 
To MOW', v. n. To make mouths; to diftort the face. 
—Make them to lye and mowe like an ape. Parfrc's 
My fiery of Candlemas-Day, 1512. 
Vol. XVI. No. 1100. 
M O W I-IR 
For every trifle are they fet upon me ; 
Sometimes like apes, that mow and chatter at me, 
And after bite me. Shakefpearc's Temprfi. 
MOW'AH, a town of Hindooftan, in BahAr: thirty- 
two miles eaft of Hajypour. Lat. 25. 34.. N. Ion. 86. E. 
—A town of Hindooftan, in Oude: twenty miles eaft of 
Fyzabad. 
To MOW'BURN, v. n. To ferment and heat jn the 
mow for want of being dry.—Houfe it not green, left it 
mowbvrn. Mortimer's Hujbandry. 
MOW'E, Mouen, or Moun, v. n. and aux. pref. 
snortpht. To be able.—Many feken to entre, and they 
fchulen not mowe. Wicliffe's Luke x;ii.—Whetbir faith 
f’chal moire Live him? Wicliffe's James ii.—Which thou 
(halt not mowe fuffer. Chancer's Tale of MeUbeus. —Muff. 
So must is ufed to this day in the north of England : 
“ I must go.”—As long tyme as they han the fpoufc with 
them, they moun not fafte. Wicliffe's Mark ii.—May.— 
We mowen not, although we had it fworne. Chaucer's 
Chan. Ycom. Pro!. —We moun wel maken chere. Chaucer's 
Shi pm. Tale. 
MOWE'E, a town of Hindooftan, in Guzerat: forty 
miles north-eaft of Noanagur. 
MOWE'E, one of the Sandwich-iflands, next in fize 
and neareftin fituation to Owhyhee; lying at thediftance 
of eight leagues north-north-weft from it, and 140 geo¬ 
graphical miles in circumference. This Bland is divided 
by a low ifthmus into two circular peninfulas, of which 
that to the eaft is called Whamadooa, and is double the 
fize of the weftern peninfula, called Owhyrookoo. The 
mountains in both rife to a great height, being feen at 
the diftance of upwards of thirty leagues. The northern 
fliores, like thofe of Owhyhee, afford no foundings ; but 
the country prefents the lame appearance of verdure and 
fertility. To the fouth-eaft, between this and the adja¬ 
cent ifles, there are regular foundings of 150 fathoms, 
with a fandy bottom. From the weft point, which is low, 
runs a Ihoal, ftretching out toward Ranai to a confiderable 
diftance; andtothefouthwardof this is a finefpacious bay, 
with a landy beach, (haded with cocoa-nut trees,. The 
country behind prefents a very romantic appearance. The 
hills rife almoft perpendicularly in a variety of peaked 
forms, and their fteep fides, with the deep chafms between 
them, are covered with trees, among which thofe of the 
bread-fruit abounded. When La Peroufe, in 1786, came 
within fight of this ifland, two hundred canoes came out 
to meet him, laden with pigs, fruit, and frelh vegetables, 
which the inhabitants fent on-board, and forced him to 
accept, without any ftipulation on their part. The in¬ 
habitants appeared to bear fome refemblance to thofe ol’ 
Eafter-ifland, and indicated a more robuft conftitution ; 
but it had been impaired by difeafe. Their common 
height is about five feet three inches ; their habit of body 
fpare, their features coarfe, their eye-brows thick, their 
eyes black, their afpevft determined though not ferocious, 
their cheek-bones high, and their noftrils rather wide 5 
their lips thick, their mouth large, as well as their teeth, 
which, however, were fine and regular. Some of them 
had loft one or mor6 of their teeth, which, as a modern 
navigator fuppofes, they had pulled out when mourning 
for their relations or friends. Tliefe people are more 
mufcular, their beard more bufhy, and their bodies more 
covered with hair, than thofe of the Eafter-ifland. Their 
hair, which is black, is cut into the fliape of a helmet; 
and the part which they fuffered to grow, reprefenting 
the plume, was red at the extremity, having probably- 
been coloured with the juice of fome vegetable. The 
women are much fmaller than the men, and are in gene¬ 
ral ill-made, with coarfe features, a gloomy countenance, 
and rude awkward manners. The inhabitants in general 
are gentle and prepofleffing, and, in their manner, polite 
to ((rangers. They paint themfelves, tattoo their ikin, 
and pierce their ears and the cartilage of the nofe, in 
which they wear rings by way of ornament. The drefs 
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