188 M U M 
MULTITU'DINOUS, adj. [from multitude.] Having 
the appearance of a multitude ; 
Will all great Neptune’s ocean wafli this blood 
Clean from my hand ? No, this my hand will rather 
Thy multitudinous fea incarnardine, 
Making the green one red. Sliakefpeare's Macbeth. 
Manifold : 
At once pluck out 
The multitudinous tongue ; let them not lick 
The l’weet that is their poifon. Sliakefpeare. 
Belonging to a multitude.—There was another parting 
fpeech, which was to have been prefen ted in the perfon 
of a youth, and accompanied with divers gentlemen’s 
younger fons of the country ; but, by reafon of the mul¬ 
titudinous prefs, was hindered. B. Jonfon's Entertainments. 
MULTIV'AGANT, or Multiv'agous, adj. [ multi- 
vagus, Lat.] That wanders or itrays much abroad. 
MUL'TIVALVES, f. The name of a general clafs of 
fliell-firti j diftinguifhed from the univalves, which confift 
of only one ftiell, and the bivalves, which coniift of two, 
by their confiding of three or more fliells. See the article 
CCNCHOLOGY, VOl. V. 
MULTIV'IOUS, adj. [multus and via, Lat.] Having 
many ways ; manifold. 
MULTIV'OLENT, adj. [from the Lat. multus, many, 
and volo, to fly.] Mutable ; fickle. Scott. 
MUL'TO, a town of Hindooftan in the circar of Bicka- 
neer : fixteen miles weft of Bickaneer. 
MUL'TO, J'. in old records, a wether fheep. AJh. 
MULTOC'ULAR, adj. [multus and oculus, Lat.] Hav¬ 
ing more eyes than two.—Flies are multocular, having as 
many eyes as there are perforations in their corneas. Der- 
hani's Phyfco-Tlieol. 
MULTO'NES AU'RI, in our ancient writers, an old 
coin of gold, having an Agnus Dei, fheep or lamb, on the 
one fide, and from that impreftion called multones. This 
coin was molt common in France, and fometimes current 
in England. Patent 33 Edw. I. cited by Spelman. 
MUL'TURE,/! [moulture, Fr. from molo, Lat. to grind.] 
A grift, or grinding 5 the corn ground ; alfo the toll, or 
fee, that is due for grinding. Cotgrave and Sherwood. — 
Molter, the toll of a mill; ufed in the north of England. 
GroJ'e. —This old Englifh word is common in Scotland. 
Todd. — Multure, in Scots law, is a certain ftipulated quan¬ 
tity of meal given as payment to the proprietor or tackf- 
man of a mill for grinding the corn 5 and all corn ground 
on farms thirled to the mill is obliged to pay multure, whe¬ 
ther the corn be ground at that mill or ellewhere. Ency. 
Brit. 
MUL'TZIG, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lower Rhine : three miles weft of Molfheim. 
MU'LUCHA, in ancient geography, a river of Mau¬ 
ritania Tingitana, with a town of the fame name upon it. 
The river divided Numidia from Mauritania. Pliny. 
Florus. Salluft. 
MUL'VIA, a river of Barbary, in Africa, which rifes 
in the mountains of Atlas, and divides the empire of 
Morocco from that of Algiers, and then falls into the 
Mediterranean to the weftward of Marfal-quiver. 
MUL'VIUS PONS, a bridge on the Flaminian Way, 
about one mile from Rome. 
MU'LUL, a river of Fez, which runs into the Mul- 
looiah at Haddaja. 
MULUPGUN'GE, a town of Bengal : twenty-eight 
miles fouth-eaft of Dacca. 
MUL'WAGGLE, a town of Plindooftan, in Myfore : 
twenty-two miles eaft of Colar. 
MULYGUN'GE, a forfof Hindooftan, in Bahar: fixty 
miles lbuth-louth-eaft of Durbungah. Lat. 25. 53. N. 
Ion. 87. 13. E.—Alio, a town of Bengal: twenty miles 
north-north-weft of Purneah. 
MUM, /.' [niumme, Germ.] Ale brewed with wheat.— 
In Shenibank, upon the river Elbe, is a llorehoufe for the 
wheat of which mum is made at Brunfwick. Mortimer. 
MUM 
The clam’rous crowd is hulh’d with mugs of mum, 
Till all tun’d equal fend a general hum. Pope. 
The procefs of brewing mum, as recorded in the town- 
houfe of the city of Brunfwick, is as follows: Takefixty- 
three gallons of water that has been boiled till one-third 
part is confumed, and brew it with feven bulhels of 
wheaten malt, one bulhel of oat-meal, and one bulhel of 
ground beans. When it is tunned, the hoglhead mull 
not be filled too full at firft : as foon as it begins to work, 
put into it three pounds of the inner rind of fir, one pound 
of the tops of fir and beech, three handfuls of carduus be- 
nedi&us, a handful or two of the flowers of rofa folis: add 
burnet, betony, marjoram, avens, pennyroyal, and wild 
thyme, of each a handful and a half; of elder-flowers, two 
handfuls or more; feeds of cardamom bruifed, 30 ounces 3 
barberries bruifed, one ounce: when the liquor has worked 
a while, put the herbs and feeds into the vefiel; and, after 
they are added, let it work over as little as poflible; then fill 
it up: laftly, when it is Hopped, put into the hoglhead ten 
new-laid eggs unbroken ; flop it up clofe, and ufe it at 
two years end. The Englilh brewers, inftead of the inner 
rind of fir, ufe cardamom, ginger, and faflafras j and alfo 
add elecampane, madder, and red fanders. 
MUM, interject. [Of this word the fuppofed original is 
mentioned in Mome, vol. xv. It may be obferved, that 
when it is pronounced it leaves the lips clofed.] A word 
denoting prohibition to fpeak, or refolution not to 
fpeak ; lilence ; hulh.— Mum then, and no more proceed. 
Shakefpeare's Tempeft. —Well faid, mailer j mum! and gaze 
your fill. Sliakefpeare. 
But to his fpeach he aunfwered no whit, 
But Hood Hill mute, as if he had beene dum, 
Ne figne of fence did Ihew, ne common wit. 
As one with griefe and anguilhe over-cum. 
And unto every thing did aunfwere mum. Spenfer 0 
To MUM. See To Mumm. 
MUM, adj. Silent.—The mum club is an inftitution of 
the fame nature, and as great an enemy to noife. Addifon's 
Spectator. 
They rage with wrath ; they daily fret and fume; 
Ruthfull revenge them alwaies hath in fute, 
And right in time makes might both mum and mute. 
Mir. for Mag. 
MUM-BUD'GET, interject. [ mum and budget. “ I 
come to her in white, and cry mum; Hie cries, budget; 
and by that we know one another.” Shakefpeare's Merry 
Wives. — “ To play mum-budget, demeurer court, Fr.” 
which Cotgrave renders “ to be gravelled, put to lilence 
or a nonplus.”] An expreflion denoting fecrecy as well as 
filence; ufed in a contemptuous or ludicrous manner.— 
I thought he laught not merier than I, when I got this 
money; but muni-bouget; for Carifophus I efpie. Damon 
and Pithias. — They neither alledge the fond furmifed 
caufes by Frarine, nor mumble them over in mum-budget; 
but plainlie declare the realonable, fufficient, and necef- 
farie, caufes. Fullie's Anfwer to P.Frarine, 15 80.—If a man 
call them to accomptes, and alke the caule of all thele 
their tragical and cruel doings, he fhall have a Ihort an- 
fvver with mum-budget. Orat. againjt the Uni. Infur. of the 
Protejlants. 
Have thefe bones rattled, and this head 
So often in thy quarrel bled ? 
Nor did I ever wince or grudge it. 
For thy dear fake. Quoth Are, mum-budget. Hudibras. 
MUM'-CHANCE, f. Silence. Iluloet. —A game of ha¬ 
zard with dice.—They repaire hither to viewe as well their 
incomparable beauty, as for to accompany them at mum- 
chance, and then after to daunce with them. Cavendijlis 
Life of Wolfey. —A fool, dropped as it were by chance, or 
by the fairies; one who is lor the rnoft part ftupid and 
filent, rarely fpeaking to the purpofe; [from mome, a fool.] 
Ufed in the weft of England. Groje. 
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