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cirri none; the ventral and tail fins very long. This is 
a fmall but beautiful fifh, feldom more than four or five 
inches long. Cepede calls it Macropodus, or longsfoot, 
from the length of the under fins. Its colours are elegant, 
its motions quick and varied. The head and opercula 
ure clothed with fcales fimilar to thofe on the back, which 
are a mixture of green and gold; the fins are red; thefe 
form a delightful fpedtacle when the animals are in mo¬ 
tion in the limpid waters of the Chinefe lakes, where they 
are found; and from a Chinefp coloured drawing (brought 
from Holland to Paris) this account was taken by Cepede. 
The mouth is very fmall; teeth none or very minute ; 
upon each operculum there is a fmall round black fpot, 
appearing at a diftance like a dent or ear-hole. The tail- 
fail is very large, and deeply furcated. 
17. Mullus Indicus, the Indian furmullet: body above 
purple, whitifh below, and marked on each fide with two 
fpots. Its fize and habit are the fame as thofe of the red 
furmullet. In the living fifh the colour is extremely beau¬ 
tiful, but it fades very quickly after death. The upper 
part of the head, and back, dark changeable purple, grow¬ 
ing faint on the lides, which are marked by a few longi¬ 
tudinal azure and golden lines, and by two oblong fpots 
on each fide. It is a native of the Indian leas ; was ob- 
ferved by Dr. Ruffell near Vifgapatam : as food, it is much 
inferior to the M. barbatus. 
18. Mullus bandi: whitifh, with two longitudinal yel¬ 
low bands on each fide. It is about fix inches long. The 
body is white, with two yellow fillets on each fide from 
the gills to the tail; bread; and belly greenifh-white ; dor- 
fal and caudal fin ftreaked obliquely with yellow and dufky 
lines; ventral and anal greenifh-white. Inhabits the river 
near Vifgapatam. Bandi-goolivinda is the Indian name. 
Dr. Ruffell fays it is not much efteemed as food. 
MULLY'NE, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude: forty- 
two miles weft-north-weft of Lucknow. Lat. 27. 10. N. 
Ion. 80. 31. E. 
MUL'NA SHAD'DY, a town of Candahar: thirty-five 
miles eafl-north-eall of SufFa. 
MULNAPOU'R, a town of Bengal: twenty-five miles 
fouth-eaft of Purneah. 
MULNAPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude: fif¬ 
teen miles fouth-weft of Goorackpour. Lat. 26. 38. N. 
Ion. 83. 28. E. 
MUL'NDORF, a town of Bavaria, in the bifhopric of 
Bamberg : three miles weft of Bamberg. 
MULNIT'ZA, a town of Croatia : ten miles north of 
Bihacs. 
MULOSLAV'KICH, a town of Ruftia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Irkutfk, on the Angara: thirty-fix miles north 
of Balaganfkoi. 
MULRE'A, mountains of Ireland, in the county of 
"Mayo: twenty-three miles fouth-weft of Caftlebar. 
MULRO'SE, a town of Brandenburg, in the Middle 
Mark, on a canal made from the Spree to the Oder: nine 
miles fouth-weft of Frankfort. Lat. 52.17.N. Ion. 14. 32. E. 
MUL'ROY BA'Y, a bay on the north coaft of Ireland, 
and county of Donegal: fix miles weft of Lough-Swilly. 
MULSE, /i [ mulfum, Lat.] Hydromel; wine boiled and 
mingled with honey. See Honey and Hydromel. 
MUL'TA, or Multura Episcopi,/ A fine or final 
latisfa&ion, anciently given to the king by the bifhops, 
that they might have power to make their laft wills; and 
that they might have the probate of other men’s, and the 
granting of adminiftrations. Chambers. 
MULTAN'GULAR, adj. [from the Lat. multus, many, 
and angulus, an angle.] Many-cornered; having many 
corners; polygonal.—Some round; others long, oval, 
■multangular. Evelyn. 
MULTAN'GULARLY, adv. Polygonally ; with many 
corners.—Granates are multangularly round. Crew's Coj- 
mol. Sacra. 
MULTAN'GULARNESS, f. The ftate of being poly¬ 
gonal, or having many corners. 
MULTAN'GULED, adj. Having many angles. Phillips. 
M U L 
MULTATI'TIQUS, adj. Gotten by mulft or fine, 
Bui ley. 
MULTE'NEN, a town of Pruftia, in the province of 
Natangen : forty miles fouth-eaft of Konigfberg. 
MULTIBO'NA, J". A name given by l'ome writers t® 
the Athamanta, or mountain-parfley. 
MULTICAP'SULAR, adj. [multus and capj'ula, Lat.] 
Divided into many partitions or cells. 
MULTICA'VOUS, adj. [multus and cavus, Lat.] Full 
of holes. 
MULTICO'LOR, adj. Of many colours. 
MULTIFA'RIOUS, adj. [multfarius, Lat.] Having 
great multiplicity; having different refpedts; having great 
diverfity in itfelf.—There is a multifarious artifice in the 
ftruciure of the mean eft animal. Move's Divine Dialogues. 
MULTIFA'RIOUSLY, adv. With multiplicity; with 
great variety of modes or relations.—If only twenty-four 
parts may be fo multfariou/ly placed, and ordered, as to 
make many millions of millions of differing rows : in the 
fuppofition of a thoufand parts, how immenfe mult that 
capacity of variation be ! Bentley's Sermons. 
MULTIFA'RIOUSNESS,/: Multiplied diverfity.—Ac¬ 
cording to the multifarioujhejs of this imitability, fo are 
the poilibilities of being. Norris's Mfcellanies. 
MULTIFER'NAN, or Multifarnham, a village of 
the county of Weltmeath, Ireland, on the river Gaine, 
and near Lough Derveragh, where there was a celebrated 
monaltery. Some ruins of the abbey ftill remain. Itisfeven, 
miles north from Mullingar, and forty-five weft-north- 
weft from Dublin. 
MULTIF'EROUS, adj. [from the Lat. midtus, many, 
and fero, to bear.] Producing many things. Scott. 
MULTIF'IDOUS, adj. [multijidus, Lat. j Having many 
partitions; cleft into many branches.—Thefe animals are 
only excluded without fight which are multiparous and 
multijidous, which have many at a litter, and have feet 
divided into many portions. Brown. 
MUL'TIFORM, adj. [multiformis, Lat.] Having va¬ 
rious fhapes or appearances.—The belt way to convince 
is proving, by ocular demonftration, the multiform and 
amazing operations of the air-pump and the loadftone. 
Watts. 
Ye that in quaternion run 
Perpetual circle, mult form. Milton's P. L. 
MULTIFOR'MITY, f. Diverfity of fliapes or appear¬ 
ances fubfilling in the fame thing.—Barking out a multi - 
fortuity of oaths, like hellifh Cerberi; as if men could not 
be gallants, unlefs they turned devils. Purchas's Pilgrim 
MULTIFORMNESS, / Multiformity. Scott. 
MULTIGEN'EROUS,arf/. [from the Lat. multus, many, 
and genus, a kind.] Having many kinds. 
MULTILAT'ERAL, adj. [ mullus and lateralis, Lat.] 
Having many fides.—He will perceive, that there may be 
vifible as well as tangible circles, triangles, quadrilateral, 
and multilateral, figures. Reid. 
MULTILIN'EAL, adj. [multus and tinea, Lat.] Having 
many lines.—This map is multilineal in the extreme, and 
is the firft in which the Eaftern iflands are included. 
Steevens's Note on Twelfth Night. 
MULTIL'OQUOUS, adj. [multiloquus, Lat.] Very talk¬ 
ative. 
MULTIMO'DOUS, adj. [from the Lat. multus, many, 
and modus, a mode.] Having diverfe forts; having many 
fafhions. Scott. 
MULTINO'DOUS, adj. [from the Lat. multus, many, and 
nodus, a knot.] Having many knots; full of knots. Scott, 
MULTINOMIAL, Multinom'inal, or Multinom'x- 
nous, adj. Having many names.— Multinomial or multino- 
minal roots, in algebra, are fuch as are compofed of many 
names, parts, or members ; as, a-\- b-\~ e-j- d, &c. Chambers. 
—Venus is thultinominous, to give example to her profti- 
tute difciples, who fo often, to difguife themfelves from 
magiftrates, are to take new names. Donne's Paradoxes. 
MULTINOMIAL, or Multinom'inal,/ in algebra, 
a quantity 
