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MUCK'-MIDDEN, f. A dunghill. Ufvd in the north of 
England. See Midden. 
MUCK-SWEAT 7 , f. [in this low word, much fignifies 
wet, moilt.] Profufe fiweat. High perfpiration.—By the 
living jingo, I’m all in a muek-J'weat. GoldJ'mith's Vicar of 
Wakefield. 
MUCK'-WEED, f. The common name of a trouble- 
fotne weed in arable land; the common goofe-foot. See 
Chenopodium. 
MUCK-WET', adj. Wet as muck. Scott. 
MUCK'-WORM, f. A worm that lives in dung.—A 
mifer; a curmudgeon : 
Worms fuit all conditions ; 
Milers are muck-worms, lilk-worms beaus, 
And death-watches phyiicians. Swift's Mifcell, 
MUCK'-WORT, or Mud-wort. See Limosella. 
MUCKANDGUN'GE, a town of Hindooltan, in Bahar: 
fifteen miles north of Ramgur. 
MUCKDUMFOU'R, a town of Hindooltan : thirty 
miles north-eall of Moultan. 
MUCK'EARN, a town of Scotland, in the county of 
Argyle : fourteen miles north of Inverary. 
MUCK'ENBERG, a town of Saxony, in the margra- 
Vate of MeifTen : twenty-eight miles north of Drefden, 
and twenty-two north-eaft of Meiflen. 
MUCK'ENDER,/ [mouclioir, Fr. mocadero, Span, muc- 
cininm, low Lat. Dr. Johnfon. —It is, in fome places, called 
mueldnger ; and in Barret’s old dictionary mucketer. The 
xoot is the Lat. mucus ; old Fr. mouc, whence moucaduu , 
an old word for mouckoir. Todd .] A handkerchief: 
Be of good comfort; take my muckivder. 
And dry thine eyes. B. Jonfoti's Tale of a Tub. 
For thy dull fancy a mnckender is fit, 
To wipe the flabberings of thy fnotty wit. Durjet. 
MUCK'ENHAGEN, a town of Pomerelia, on the Mot- 
law : feven miles fouth-fouth-eall of Dantzic. 
MUCK'ENREUT, a town of Germany, in the princi¬ 
pality of Culmbach : eight miles north-weft of Bayreuth. 
MUCK'ENSTURM, a town of the grand duchy of 
Baden : two miles north-eaft of Raftadt. 
MUCK'ER, a town ofPruflia, in the palatinate of Culm : 
feventeen miles north-north-eaft of Culm. 
To MUCK'ER, v.a. [from muck, aheap; mucg, Sax. 
vmicchiare, Ital. to heap up.] To hoard up; to get or fave 
meanly: a word ufed by Chaucer, and ltill retained in 
converfation.—That gold, and that money, fliineth, 
and yeveth better renowne to them that difpenden it, 
than to thilke folke that muckeren it. Chaucer's Bocth. 
—Penie that he can muckre and ketche. Chaucer's Tr. 
and Crcjf. 
MUCK'ERER, f. One that muckers ; a mifer; a nig¬ 
gard.—Avarice maketh ahvaie muckerers to ben hated. 
Chaucer 
MUCK'EROW GAU'T, a mountain of Bahar: twen¬ 
ty-three miles weft of Saferam. 
MUCK'INESS, f Naftinefs; filth. 
MUCK'ISH, mountains of Ireland, in the county of 
Donegal: twenty-fix miles north of Donegal. 
MUCK'LE, adj. [mycei, Sax.] Much. 
"MUCK'LE WATER of GROI'NARD, a river of 
Scotland, which runs from Loch Strathnalkelly to Loch 
Groinard. 
MUCK'LEFORD, a village in Dorfetfliire, near Framp- 
ton, in the parilh of Bradford-Peverel, from whence it is 
.diftant about a mile weft on the fouth bank of the Frame. 
It had formerly a chapel, only the foundation of which 
is now vinbie. 
MUCK'LESTON, a village in Staffordftiire, near Blore- 
heath, on a rifing ground, from whofe church Margaret 
of Anjou, the faithful and fpirited confort of Henry VI. 
faw the fatal battle of Bloreheath. 
MUCK'LE WICK, a village in Shropfliire; to the north- 
>veft of Bilhpp’s Caftle. 
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MUCKRA'IZ, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Hindia: feventeen miles fouth-eaft of Hurda. 
MUCK'RIS PO'INT, a cape of Ireland, on the north 
coaft of Donegal: fix miles weft-fouth-weft of Killybegs. 
MUCKTERPOU'R, a town in Bengal: thirty-three 
miles eaft of Calcutta. 
MUCKUNDGUN'GE, a town of Bengal: eighteen 
miles north of Ramgur. Lat. 23. 57. N. Ion. 85. 34. E. 
MUCK'Y, adj. Nafty; filthy: 
Much/ filth his branching arms annoys, 
And with uncomely weeds the gentle wave accloys. Spcnf, 
MUCO'NI, in ancient geography, a people of Africa, 
in the eaftern part of Mauritania Csefarienfis, in the en¬ 
virons of Mount Mamplerus, according to Ptolemy. 
MU'COR, J'. [from muceo, Lat. to be mufty or mouldy.] 
A vegetable difeafe, fignifyinga fort of mould or mildew. 
MU'COR, f. in botany, a genus of the clafs crypto- 
gamia, order fungi. Eflential generic character—Seeds 
naked, or in tranlparent capfules or veficles at the end of 
the Item. Thefe plants form the laft genus of the loweft 
order of vegetation. They chiefly appear in form of 
mouldinefs on putrid or putrefying fubftances, as rotten 
wood, fruits, dung, corrupted food, old cheefe, decayed 
leaves, and other fungufes, in caverns and arched cellars. 
Seventeen Britifh fpecies are enumerated in the third 
edition of Withering’s Arrangement; to which feveral 
have been added by other botanifts, fo that the fpecies 
now amount to twenty-five. 
1. Mucor aquofus: a watery globule on a long pellucid 
Item; feeds roundifti. Obferved by Mr. Dickinfon on 
putrefying pafte. 
2. Mucor minimus: minute, white ; head nodding. 
3. Mucor mucedo : ftalks Ample, crowded; heads 
blackifti. This is the molt common mould, on all forts 
of decayed food, vegetables, fruits, &c. It is at firft 
greyilh, with a filvery fparkling appearance ; but in a 
few hours turns greenilh, and finally almoft black, from 
the copious ripe feed, which, being gone, leaves the ex¬ 
panded coat of the head, or receptacle, in a liar-like, 
jagged, flat form. This is reprefented on the preceding 
Engraving, (p. 108.) at fig. 8, of the natural fize, and 
magnified. 
4. Mucor glaucus. See Monixia glaucus, vol. xv. 
5. Mucor roridus : item hair-like; head fpherical, like 
a dew-drop, with a black dot at the top. Found on 
horle-dung in Auguft and September. 
6. Mucor urceolatus : foon fading; Item above bellying,, 
tranfparent, like a dew-drop; head roundiih, elaftic, 
black. The Item is yellowilh, changing to a pellucid 
watery blue, bellying upwards. Head fpherical, but de- 
prefled, black, Ihining; when ripe, thrown off with an 
elaftic force. This plant has the property of ejecting the 
feed-vefiel in the fame manner as the Lycoperdon carpo- 
bolusdoes; and the head, which is blackifti grey, appearing 
to be replete with feeds like that, fhould the former be 
made a diftinCt genus, this might aflociate with it. The 
ftruCture of it is clearly a membrane furrounding and in 
clofing the capfule in form of a round ball at the top of 
the llem, which, when ripe, is exploded to fome diftance. 
This membrane is not fugacious like the other mucors; 
a fpecimen, now fix or leven years old, ftill (hows the 
remains of the collapfed membrane, though the capfules 
are fallen into powder and gone. Stem, after the ex- 
plofion of the head, lofes its bellying appearance, becomes 
cylindrical and crooked, in which ftate it will remain for 
years, if kept in a dry place. Woodward. Inhabits horfe- 
dung; to be found early in a morning, in Auguft chiefly. 
7. Mucor embolus : Item black, briltle-lhaped, let with 
brown woolly hair. On rotten wood. 
8. Mucor cefpitofus: Item branching; fructifications 
finger-like. Found on rotten vegetables in woods. 
9. Mucorcruftaceus. See Monilia cruftaceus. 
10. Mucor botrytis : Item bearing fructifications in 
bunches. Height two- joths of an inch. Fructifications 
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