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pea-lien had Arrayed into the coppice the preceding fuai¬ 
mer, where it took up its abode, and built its nett; from 
■which circumftance this mule is fuppofed to have been 
produced. 
In the vegetable as well as in the animal kingdom, 
mules are produced, by putting the farina fsecundans of 
one fpecies of plant into the piftil or utricle of the other. 
The carnation and l\vee'c-william being Jomewhat alike 
in their parts, particularly their flowers, the farina of the 
one will impregnate the other, and the feed fo enlivened 
will produce a plant different from either. An ihftance 
of this we firft had in Mr. Fairchild's garden at Hoxton; 
where a plant is feen neither fweet-vvilliam nor carnation, 
but refembling both equally : this was railed from the 
feed of a carnation that had been impregnated by the 
farina of the fweet-william. See vol. v. p. 792. 
This furnifhes a hint for altering the property and tafte 
of any fruit, by impregnating one tree with the farina of 
another of the fame clafs; as a codim with a pear-main, 
which will occation the codlin fo impregnated to lalt a 
longer time than ufual, and to be of a lharper tafte. Or, 
if the winter-fruits he fecundated with the duft of the 
fummer-kinds, they will ripen before their ufual time. 
And from this accidental coupling of the farina of one 
with another, it may poflibly be, that, in an orchard 
where there is a variety of apples, even the fruit gathered 
from the fame tree differ in their flavour, and in the fea- 
fon of maturity. It is alfo from the fame accidental 
coupling that the numberlefs varieties of fruits and flow¬ 
ers railed every day from feed are fo abundantly pro¬ 
duced. 
The Horticultural Society, lately eftablifhed, has pro- 
fecuted this enquiry with great fuccefs. At the laft 
meeting, Oft. 7, 1817, the moft important communica¬ 
tion was a letter from T. A. Knight, efq. F.R. & L.SS. 
the prefident, giving an account of a new peach raifed 
from a fweet almond impregnated with the farina of the 
common peach. The flavour of the fruit was fine; and 
Mr. Knight, who reared it, conliders the almond as the 
parent of all our peaches. See vol. ii. of a Syftem of 
Natural Hijlory, in 14 vols. 8vo. publifhed by the Pro¬ 
prietors of this Work. 
MU'LE-DRIVER, f. One that drives mules. Jolinfon. 
MU'LE, Fairchild’s, in botany. See Dianthus. 
MU'LE-FERN. See Hemionitis. 
MU'LE’s TONGUE. See Asplenium. 
MU'LE-WORT. See Hemionitis. 
MULELA'CHA, in ancient geography, a town of 
Africa, in Mauritania Tingitana, on a promontory which 
extended into the Atlantic, according to Pliny. 
MULE'TA, a town of Naples, in Calabria Citra: fix- 
teen miles eaft-fouth-eall of Scalea. 
MULETEE'R, J'. Mule-driver ; horfe-boy.—About a 
quarter of an hour farther, we came up with our muleteers; 
they having pitched our tents before they had gone fo 
far as we intended. Maundrel's Travels. 
Bafe muleteers, 
Like peafant foot-boys, do they keep the walls. 
And dare not take up arms like gentlemen. Shaltefpeare. 
MULET'TO, f. [from mule.~\ A great mule, a moil. 
One employed in driving mules; a boy that drives 
borfes. Scott. 
MULE'VO, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Viatka, on the Kama: fixteen miles .fouth of Sarapul. 
MULFIN'GEN, a town of the duchy of Wurzburg: 
fix miles fouth of Mergentheim, and thirty-one fouth of 
Wurzburg. 
MUL'GOM, a town of Hindooftan, in Baglana: forty- 
feven miles fouth-eaft of Saler Mouler. 
MULIIARGUN'GE, a town of Hindooftan, in the dr¬ 
ear of Gohud : eleven miles fouth of Lahaar. 
MUL'HAUSEN. See Muhliiaus'en, p. 169. 
MUL'HEGAN, a river of the ftate of Vermont, which 
suns into the Connecticut at Brunfwick, 
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MUL'HETM, a town of the grand duchy of Berg, 
on the eaft fide of the Rhine: three miles north of 
Cologne. 
MUL'HETM, or Mullen, a town of the grand duchy 
of Baden : three miles weft of Badenweiler. 
MUL'HEIM am RU'HR, a town of the grand duchy 
of Berg, on the Ruhr: fourteen miles north of Dui- 
feldorp. 
MULIEB'RITY,y! \niuliebris, Lat.] Womanhood; the 
contrary to virility ; the manners and character of woman, 
—The ladies of Rhodes, hearing that you have loft a 
capital part of your lady-ware, have made their petition 
to Cupid, to plague you above all other, as one preju¬ 
dicial to their muliebrity. Soliman and Perjeda ; 1599. 
MU'LIER, f. As ufed in our law, feems to be a word 
corrupted from the Latin melior, or the French meilleur; 
and fignifies the lawful iftiie, born in wedlock, preferred 
before an elder brother born out of matrimony. See 
ftat. 9 Hen. VI. c. 11. But, by Glanvil, lawful iflue are 
faid to be mulier, not from melior, but becaufe begotten 
e muliere, of the wife, and not ex concubina; for he calls 
fuch iifue filios mulieratos, oppofmg them to baftards. It 
appears to be thus ufed in Scotland alfo; Skene faying, 
mulieralus filius is a lawful fon, begotten of a lawful wife. 
Where a man has ift’ue by a woman, if he afterwards 
marries her, the iflue is mulier by the civil law, though 
not by the laws of England. 2 inft. 99. 5 Rep. 416. 
Mulier pui'sne, [Lat. and Fr.]—When a man has a 
baftard fon, and afterwards marries the mother, and by 
her has a legitimate fon, the eldeft fon is bajlard eigne, 
and the younger fon is mulier puij'ne. Blackftone. 
MULIERO'SE, adj. Too much addifted to the love of 
women. Bailey. 
MULIEROS'ITY, f. A criminal fondnefs for women, 
Bailey. 
MU'LIERTY, f. The being or condition of a mulier, 
or lawful iflue. Co. Litt. 352. 
MULINAZ'ZO, a town of Sicily, on the fouth coaft, 
at the mouth of the river St. Croce : eighteen miles weft 
of Modica. 
MU'LINGEN (Grofs), a town of Germany, in the 
duchy of Anhalt Zerbft: fourteen miles weft or Zerbft. 
MU'LINGEN (Klein), a town of the duchy of Anhalt 
Zerbft : twelve miles weft of Zerbft. 
MU'LISH, adj. Like a mule ; obftinate as a mule. 
Modern. 
MULIVAD'DY, one of the principal rivers in Ceylon, 
takes its rife at a fmall diftance from that of Maiivagonga, 
at the foot of Adam’s Peak, a high mountain in the 
fonth-weft of Candy, and runs towards the weft coaft. 
MULKAPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in Golcondas 
twenty miles fouth-eaft of Hydrabad. 
MUL'KEE, a town of Hindooftan, in Canara. In 1799, 
this town was ceded to Great Britain : fixteen miles 
north-north-weft of Mangalore. 
MULL, f. [M. Goth, muld; Su. Goth. mull. ] Dull; 
rubbifh. See Mullock. 
That other cofre of ftraw and mull'' 
With ftones meynd he fill’d alfo 5 
Thus be they full bothe two. Goiver's Conf. Am. 
To MULL, v. a. [mollitus, Lat.] To foften and difpirit, 
as wine is when burnt and fweetened. Hanrner. 
Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy, 
Mull'd, deaf, lleepy, inienfible. Shahcfpeare's Coriol. 
To heat any liquor, and fweeten and fpice it.—Drink new 
cyder mull'd, with ginger warm. Gay. 
MULL, a large ifland fituated on the weftern coaft of 
Scotland, and included within the county of Argyle, 
from the main land of which it is feparated on the north- 
eaft by a narrow channel, called the Sound of Mull; and 
on the fouth-eaft by the large bay opening from the fouth 
into the Linnhe-loch. On the weftern parts, and on the 
fouth, it is walhed by numerous bays formed by the 
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