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however does not become a fruit, but it is lengthened out, 
and from it, as from a receptacle, conie out feveral glo¬ 
bules, flatted a little and in a chain, no veftige of which 
is in the flower. At firft they are the/ize of a lentil-feed, 
but when perfect they are as big as a large plum : they are 
exadlly fpherical, very fmooth, andfeparated from the re¬ 
ceptacle by a petiole ; from the top of each globule ifl'ues 
a fhorc petiole uniting it to the next, and fo on : no fu¬ 
ture is apparent in the globules, nor are they cloven as 
in the proper legume 5 but they are compofed of a thick, 
hard fubftance, in the middle of which is a cavity, as in 
oblong plums, filled with one kidney-form feed, the fize 
of a large kidney-bean, with the hilum, or umbilical fear, 
at the angle, as in legumes. This plant has a near affinity 
to Sophora ; but it differs from it in having the ftamens 
properly diadelphous, and the fruit not leguminous, or 
opening longitudinally by two valves. Native of Surinam. 
It has its name (moniliformis) from the mode in which 
the fruit hangs, joined in a long row like a necklace, or 
rather like a papift’s rofary, or firing of beads ; as appears 
from the annexed figure, which is copied from Mad. 
Merian, who drew it on the fpot in Surinam. 
MUL'LERAS, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Upper Saxony, and marquifate of Brandenburg, feated 
thirty-eight miles fouth of Berlin, upon a canal which 
joins the Oder and the Spree. This canal is fifteen miles 
in length, ten yards in breadth, and fieven feet in depth. 
It was eight years in making; and fince that-time the 
cities of Hamburgh and Breflaw have carried on great 
trade by water. Lat. 52. 21. N. Ion. 14. 50. E. 
MUL'LET,/ \mulet, Fr.] A fea-fifh. See Mugil.—• 
Care muff be taken, left, being deceived by the identity of 
names, we take our Englifh mullet to be the mullus of the 
ancients. Hay. 
Of carps and mullets why prefer the great ? 
Yet for fmall turbots fuch efteem profefs ? Pope. 
MUL'LET, or Mollet, f. [mollette, Fr.] Seethe ar¬ 
ticle Heraldry, vol. ix. p. 423. 
MUL'LET, a peninfula of Ireland, in the county of 
Mayo, about nine miles long, and, in general, about two 
wide; a large bay, called BlackJ'od Bay, almoft dividing 
it from the reft of the county. This peninfula is, con¬ 
trary to the neighbouring coaft of Mayo, laid to be fertile 
and populous. 
MULLICKPOU'R, a town of Bengal: fixteen miles 
eaft of Hoogly. 
MULLICKPOU'R, a town of Bengal: twenty-five 
miles north-eaft of Calcutta. - 
MUL'LICO HILL', a town of New Jerfey : fifty miles 
north-eaft of Philadelphia. 
MUL'LICUS, a river in New Jerfey, which runs into 
the Atlantic a little to the fouth of Little-Egg-harbour. 
MULLIEBANG', a town of Bengal, on the left bank 
of the Ganges, oppofite Hoogly. 
MULLIGOWITZ', a town of Bohemia, in the circle 
of Rakonitz: five miles north of Rakonitz. 
MUL'LIGRUBS, /.' Twifting of the guts; fometimes 
fullenriefs. Dr. JolmJ'on,from Ainfworih. —Sick of the mul¬ 
ligrubs ; low-fpirited ; having an imaginary ficknefs. 
Groj’e's Claff. Did. —Dr. Jamiefon defines the Scottifh moU 
ligrant, molligrub, or mullygrub, the adt of whining, com¬ 
plaining, or murmuring; and cites the Icel. mogla, mur¬ 
mur, and graun, the countenance ; q. d. fuch whining as 
diftorts the countenance ; or, as including two ideas 
nearly connected, grunnia, murmuring and grunting. 
He finds another apparent etymon in the Teut. muijlen, to 
mutter, with the Germ, grob, great; q. d. a great com¬ 
plaint or muttering. Whether this be the origin or not, 
the word certainly feems to have been old in Englifh, as 
a contemptuous expreffion ; though Dr. Johnfon could 
find no example of it. Todd.- —What’s the matter ? Whi¬ 
ther go all thefe men-menders ? thefe phy-ficians ? Whofe 
dog lies fick o’the mulligrubs l. Beaumont and Fletcher's 
JUonf. Thomas , 
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MULINCOT'TA, a town of Hindooftan, in the Car¬ 
natic : fifteen miles fouth-eaft of Tinevelly. 
MULLINGA'R, the county-town of Weftmeath, in 
the province of Leinller, Ireland. It is a large well-built 
town, fituated on the River Feyle, iffuingoutof Lough 
Hoyle. There is a wool-fair held here; but it is not fo much 
frequented as formerly, in confequence of that held at 
Balinafloe. It- formerly returned two members to parlia¬ 
ment, but tliis privilege ceafed at the union. Mullingar 
is thirty-eight miles weft-by-north from Dublin. Lat. 53; 
31. N. Ion. 7. iS. W. 
Within a- few miles of Mullingar are the- ruins of a 
church, and alfo thofe of acaftle. In 1227, the priory of 
St. Mary, formerly known by the name of 77 /e Houfe of 
God of Mullingar, was founded here by Ralph de Petyt 
bifhop of Meath, for regular canons of the order of St, 
Auguftin. A Dominican friary was alfo founded here in 
1237 by the family of Nugent; fome ruins of which ftill 
remain.. In 1622, the friars of Multifarnham began to 
eredt a houfe there for friars of the order of St. Francis, 
but it w-as never completed. 
MUL'LION, f [nioulure, Fr.'\ A divifion in a window- 
frame ; a bar to divide the light into compartments, and 
is either-curved or ftraight. Vertical mullions are lome- 
times called munitions; and thofe which run horizontally 
are called 'tranfoms. The whole of the mullions of a win¬ 
dow “above the lpringing of the arch is called the head- 
work. 
MUL'LOCK, f. An old word, and yet ufed in feveral 
places, ftgnifying dirt, rubbilh, or alhes. See Mull.— 
The mullock on an hepe yfweped was. Chaucer's Chan. 
Yeom. Tale. 
MULLOO'IA, a fortrefs of Fez, in the province of 
Garet, furnilhed with a garrifon. 
MULLOO'IAH, or Mullu'via, a river of Africa, 
which riles in the mountains between Morocco and Su- 
gulmefla, and runs into the Mediterranean in lat. 34. 55. N. 
Ion. 2. 6. W. It forms the boundary between the empire 
of Morocco and the province of Tremecsn ; as it was for¬ 
merly between Mauritania ^nd Numidia, orbetwsen Mau¬ 
ritania Tingitana and Mauritania-Ctefarienfis. Its whole 
courfe is from fouth to north about two hundred miles. 
This river is only navigable for linall veflels. 
MULLUNG', a town of Bengal-: eight miles fouth of 
Rungpour. 
MUL'LUS, f. the Surmullet ; in ichthyology, a ge¬ 
nus of fifties of the order thoracici; of which the generic 
charadters are—Head compreffed, Hoping, fealy; eyes ob¬ 
long, approximate, vertical, furnilhed with a nidlitating 
membrane; noftrils double, minute; jaws and palate 
armed with fmall teeth ; tongue Ihort, narrow, fmooth, 
fixed; gill-membrane three-rayed; the coverts of three 
pieces, very finely ftriate; body round, long, moftly red, 
coated wfith large feales eafily dropping off. Moll of the 
fpecies have cirri or barbies from the lower lip : Cepede 
makes this a part of the generic charadler; but it is not 
univerfal. The fins are eight in number: two pedtorals, 
two ventrals, one anal, one at the tail, and two at the 
back, of which the firft is armed with fpines. 
Thefe filhes live on aquatic plants and the young of. 
other filhes. They haunt the North and Baltic Seas, and 
other parts of the ocean; but more particularly the Me¬ 
diterranean. As they are of a beautiful red colour, it is 
no wonder they were admired by the Greeks and Ro¬ 
mans, particularly the latter. Pliny knew of two fpecies 
with barbies; but he diftinguilhes them only as one living 
on flelh, the other on fnails and weeds;, b.ut-this diltinc- 
tion is not in the nature of the filh ;, both have the mouth 
formed alike, therefore their - food- mull be the fame. 
Gmelin mentions fix fpecies,only; feven have been added 
by Cepede from Commerfon’s MSS. and two by Dr. Ruffel. 
1. Mullus furmuletus, the ftriped furmullet. Two cirri 
from the lower jaw, and four yellow ftripes, placed length- 
wife, form the fpecific character. There are 3 rays in the 
membrane of the gills, 15 in the pedtoral fins, 6 in the 
ventrals. 
