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MUID,/? A meafure formerly in ufe among the French, 
for dry commodities : as corn, pulfe, fait, lime, coals, See. 
The muid is no real veil'd ufed as a meafure ; but an efti- 
mation of feveral other meafures, as the feptier, or fetier, 
mine, minot, bufhel, &c. At Paris the muid of wheat, 
pulfe, and the like, is compofed of 12 fetiers, each fetier 
making 2 mines, the mine 4 minots, the minot 3 buihels, 
or-boifleaux, the bufhel four quarts, or 16 litrpns. The 
muid of oats is double that of wheat, containing 24 fetiers. 
The boifleau is a cylinder 8 inches 2§ lines in height, and 
10 inches in diameter; its contents are, therefore, 644 
French cubic inches, or 780 Englilh: hence 11 fetiers of 
Paris — 6 Englilli quarters, and 11 boiffeaux 2= 4 Englilh 
buihels. 
Muid is alfo one of the nine calks, or regular veffels, 
tiled in France to put wine and other liquors in. The 
muid of wine, divided into 2 demi-muids, 4 quarter- 
mnids, and 8 half-quarter-muids, contains 36 fetiers, each 
fetier 8 pintes, Paris meafure; fo that the muid contains 
288 pintes, but only 280 pintes without the lees. The 
pinte contains 2 chopines, 4 demi-fetiers, or 8 poifi'ons, in 
all 47y French cubic inches, or 57J Englilh; hence a 
French pinte is nearly equal to an Englilh quart; and a 
muid of wine contains 71-^- Englilh gallons. 
MUIDE, a river of Germany, which runs into the 
Maine a little below Miltenberg. 
MUIR, f. A term ufed in the northern parts of the 
kingdom to fignify moor. It is the common term in 
Scotland. 
MU'IRKIRK, a town of Scotland, in the county of 
Ayr-, here are manufactures of iron and coal-tar: twenty 
miles eaft of Ayr. 
MU'IS (Simon de), a learned French hebrailt and bib¬ 
lical critic, was a native of Orleans, where he was born in 
the year 1587. He became canon and archdeacon of 
Soiffons ; and in the year 1614, was nominated by 
Louis XIII. profelfor-royal of the Hebrew language at 
Paris. He is confidered to be one of the ablell Hebrew 
fcholars whom France has produced ; and, befides his pro¬ 
found Ikill in this language, poflefled a folid judgment, an 
intimate knowledge of religion and lacred hiftory, and 
•was mailer of a pure, neat, and eafy, ftyle. His Commen¬ 
tary on the Pfalms is allowed by the learned to be one of 
the belt critical illullrations of that portion of the Bible 
which have been given to the world. He defended the 
authority of the Hebrew text againlt father Morin, in 
three treatifes, in which he attempted to fupport the credit 
of the Maffora. He died in 1644, when about fifty-feven 
years of age; having publillied many very learned works, 
that do honour to his indultry, talents, and erudition. 
After his death, in 1650, thefe various pieces were col- 
Jefted together,and publilhed in a folio volume. Le Long's 
JSiblioth. Sacra. 
MUI'SENS, a town of France, in the department of the 
Two Nethes : two miles eaft of Malines. 
MUI'VA, / in botany. See Melastoma. 
MUKALE'RA, a fortrefs of Arabia, in Yemen: twen¬ 
ty-eight miles fouth-eaft of Taas. 
MU'KAR, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar s thirty- 
three miles north-eaftof Chuprah. Lat. 25. 57. N. Ion. 85. 
j 3 -E. 
MUKE. See Muck. 
MU'LA, a town of Spain, in Murcia, celebrated for 
its baths : twenty miles weft of Murcia. 
MULAN'GER, a town of Hindooftan, in Tollingnna : 
thirty-two miles weft of Warangole. 
MULA'TAS, adulter of fmall illands in the Spanilh 
Main, near the ifthmus of Darien. Lat. 9. 20. to 9. 35. N. 
Ion. 78. 5. to 78. 30. W. 
MULA'TRE PO'INT, a cape of the ifland of Dominica, 
on the eaft coaft. Lat. 75. 25. N. Ion. 61. 17. W. 
MULATTO, f. [niulaia, Span, mulat, Fr. from mulus, 
Lat.] One begot between a white and a black, as a mule 
between different lpecies or Mulattos are not 
Ethiopians; Young's Centaur, 
M U L 
MULATTO PO'INT, the fouth ca'pe of the port of 
Ancon, on the weft coaft of South America: fixteen or 
eighteen miles north of Cadavayllo River. 
MULAZ'ZQ, a town of Genoa: fifteen miles north of 
Spezza. 
MUL'BACH, a town of France, in the departmentof 
the Upper Rhine: twelve miles fouth-weft of Colmar. 
MULBERRY, or Mulberry-Tree, f. [mopbenig, 
Sax. morns, Lat.] See Morus. —The mulberry-tree hath 
large, rough, roundilh, leaves ; the male flowers, or cat¬ 
kins, which have a calyx confilting of four leaves, are 
lometimes produced upon feparate trees, at other times 
at remote diftances from the fruit on the fame tree : the 
fruit :s compofed ot feveral protuberances, to each of 
which adhere four fmall leaves; the feeds are roundilh, 
growing fingly in each protuberance; it is planted for the 
delicacy ol the fruit. The white mulberry is commonly 
cultivated for its leaves to feed filkworms, in France and 
Italy, though the Perlians always make ufe of the com¬ 
mon black mulberry for that purpofe. Miller. —Morton, 
archbilhop of Canterbury, was content to ufe mor upon 
a tun; and fometimes a mulberry-tree, called morus in 
Latin, out of a tun. Camden's Remains. —The fruit of the 
tree.—A body black, round, with fmall grain-like tuber¬ 
cles on the furface ; not very unlike a mulberry. Wood- 
ward on To (fils. 
The ripeft mulberry , 
That will not hold the handling. Shakefpeare's Coriol. 
MUL'BERRY (Bafe). See Rubus, 
MUL'BERR Y -BLITE. See Blitum. 
MUL'BERRY CI'DER, a name given by the people 
of Devonlhire, and fome other parts of England, to a fort 
of cider rendered very palatable by an admixture of mul¬ 
berry-juice in the making. They choofe for this purpole 
the ripeft and blackeft mulberries; and, prefling out their 
juice, and mixing it with a full-bodied cider at the time of 
the grinding and preffmg, give juft fo much of it as adds 
a perceptible flavour. It is worthy the attention of peo¬ 
ple who live in other counties where ftrong and good ci¬ 
der is made ; for this renders it a fort of wine much more 
agreeable than any other Englifti liquor, and might be 
brought into general ufe, to the great advantage of the 
dealer. The colour of this liquor refembles that of the 
brighteft red wine, and the flavour of the mulberry never 
goes off. Phil. TrdnJ'. N° 133. 
MULBERRY I'SLAND, a fmall ifland in James River, 
Virginia. Lat. 37.6. N. Ion. 76. 32. W. 
MULCH, J'. [perhaps a corruption of mull.'] Rotten or 
crumbled dung. See Mull.— If mulch be ufed, it ihould 
be thoroughly rotten, and almoft reduced to mould. Adel- 
phi TranJ'aElions, xv. 158. 
MUL'CIBER, a furname ofVulcan, (a mulcendoferrum,) 
from his occupation. See Vulcan. 
MUL'CIBLE, adj. [from mulceo, Lat. to appeafe.] Car- 
pable of being appeafed. Bailey. 
MUL'COM, a town of Sweden, in Warmeland : thir¬ 
teen miles north-eaft of Carlftadt. 
MUL'CT, f. [mulda, Lat.] A fine; a penalty; ufed 
commonly of pecuniary penalty.—Becaufe this is a great 
part, and Euiebius hath faid nothing, we will, by way of 
muid or pain, lay it upon him. Bacon. 
Look humbly upward : fee his will difclofe 
The forfeit firft, and then the fine impofe ; 
A mulct thy poverty could never pay, 
Had not eternal wifdom found the way. Dryden. 
To MUL'CT, v. a. To puniflt with fine or forfeiture.— 
Marriage without confent of parents they do not make 
void, but they muid it in the inheritors ; for the children 
of fuch marriages are not admitted to inherit above a third 
part of their parents’ inheritance. Bacon's New Atlantis. 
MUL'CTUARY, adj. Punifhing with fine or forfeiture. 
—He withes fewer laws, fo they were better obferved ; and 
for thole [that] are tnulciuary, he underftands their inftitu*. 
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