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old. He alfo maintained, that all men were equal in the 
tight of God ; and that, therefore, they ought to have all 
things in common, and fliould on no account exhibit any 
marks of fubordination or pre-eminence. Thefe notions, 
to flattering to the feelings of the trials of the people, 
fpread rapidly among the peafants of Thuringia; and pro¬ 
duced the moll l'erious tumults and commotions in that 
and fome other parts of German)', which in the end 
brought on their own deftruftion, and that of their leader. 
This occurred about the year 1526. Robertjbn's Hiji . of 
Charles V. 
MUNCE'RA, a town of Hindooflan, in Baglanaten 
miles north of Junere. 
MUNCE'RIANS, /. ill church-hi llory, a fe£t of Ger¬ 
man enthufiafts, fo called from their leader, Thomas 
Muncer. 
MUN'CEY, a town of America, in Lycoming-county, 
Pennfylvania: 231 miles from Wafliington. 
To MUNCH, v. a. [ manger , Fr.] To chew by great 
mouthfuls. This is likewife written moimcfi. See To 
Mounch. —Say, fweet love, what thou defir’ll to eat ?-— 
Truly, a peck of provender; I could munch your good 
dry oats. Shahefpeare's MidJ'. Night's Dream. 
To MUNCH, v. n. To chew eageply by great mouthfuls. 
—It is the Ion of a mare that’s broken loofe, and munch¬ 
ing upon the melons. Dri/dcu's Don Sebajlian. 
MUNCHABOO'. See Monchaboo. 
MUNCHAU'RACH, a town of Germany, in the prin¬ 
cipality of Culmbach : thirteen miles ealt of Neuilatt. 
MUN'CHBACH. See Lusitz, vol. xiii. 
MUN'CIIBERG, a town of Germany, in the princi¬ 
pality of Culmbach : fix miles fouth of Ilof, and lixteen 
north of Bayreuth. 
MUN'CHENBERG, a town of Brandenburg: nine¬ 
teen miles weft of Cuftrin, and twenty-nine ealt of Berlin, 
Lat. 52. 30. N. Ion. 14. 15. E. 
MUNCHENBER'-NSDORF, a town of Saxony, in the 
circle of Neuftadt: feven miles north-weft of Weyda. 
MUN'CHENGRATZ, or Hradisti'e, a town of Bo¬ 
hemia : fifteen miles fouth-weft of Rakonitz. 
MUN'CHER, /.’ One that munches. 
MUN'CHHAUSEN, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Upper Rhine: twelve miles fouth of Muhl- 
liaufen. 
MUN'CHHAUSEN, a town of Bavaria : twelve miles 
weft of Vilzhoven, and fifteen ealt of Dingelfingen. 
MUNCHIIAU'SIA, f. [named by Linnaeus in honour 
of baron Gerlach Adolphus von Munchhaufen, governor of 
Hanover, who greatly improved the botanic garden at 
Gottingen, and alfo of the baron Otlio von Munchhaufen, 
minifter there, a diftinguifiied practical botanift and rural 
ecoiiomift.] In botany, a genus of the clals polyadelphia, 
order polyandria, natural order of calycanthemae, (fali- 
carias, Juff.) Generic characters—Calyx: perianthium 
one-leafed, half fix-cleft, turbinate, torulofe, permanent; 
with blunt fegments. Corolla : petals fix, obovate, fpread- 
jng, clawed, infjrted into the calyx. Stamina : filaments 
twenty-four or thirty, capillary, (horter than the petals, 
collected into fix bodies ; antherae kidney-form. Piftil- 
lum : germen fuperior ovate ; ftyle filiform, declining of 
a middling length ; ftigma blunt. Pericarpium : caplule 
ovate, acuminate, fix-ceiled. Seeds : very many.— F/feu- 
tial Character. Calyx fix-cleft, torulofe; petals clawed ; 
ftamina in fix bodies, four or five in each ; piftil fuperior, 
with a filiform curved ftyle. 
Munchhaufia fpeciofa, the only fpecies. This is a fmall 
tree, with alternate patulous round fmooth branches ; 
leaves alternate, ovate or ovate-oblong, acuminate, quite 
entire, fmooth, paler underneath ; on very Ihort petioles. 
Flowers alternate, on very Ihort peduncles, extremely 
handfome; calyxes fubtomentofe, with fix channelled 
fwellings ; petals four times as large as the calyx ; fta- 
mens half the length of the petals ; ftyle at firft equal to 
the ftamens, but afterwards longer. Native of Java and 
China, Cultivated in the Upfal garden in 174.8, and flow- 
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ered there the year following. See Lagerstroemia fpe¬ 
ciofa, vol. xii. 
MUN'CHING, f. The aft of chewing by great mouth¬ 
fuls. 
MUN'CHRODT, or Roth, a princely abbey of Ger¬ 
many, founded in the year 1126, and put under the pro- 
teCfion of the empire by Charles IV. It is eighteen miles 
fouth of Uim, and thirty-eight weft-fouth-weft of Augl- 
burg. 
MUNCHSTOCK'HEIM. See Stockheim. 
MUNCK (John), a celebrated Daniffi navigator, was 
born towards the end of the fixteenth century. .The dif- 
coveries of Hudfon, in 1610, having excited confiderable 
attention in all the maritime countries of Europe, Munck 
was ordered by his fovereign to purfue the lame route, in 
order to determine whether it was poffible to proceed to 
India by a north-weft paflage. Two Ihips were equipped 
for this purpofe ; and on the 16th of May, 1619, Munck 
let fail from the Sound. On the 20th of June following, 
lie faw Cape Farewell; and, palling through Hudfon’s 
Strait, to which, in honour of his king, he gave the name 
of Fretum Chri/tiani, or Chriftian’s Strait, difeovered in 
it an illand, in lat. (5o° 20' N. Mtich, on account of the 
rein-deer found in it, was called Deer Illand. He alfo 
gave the name of Blare Novum, or the New Sea, to that 
which wallies the coaft of Labrador; and the appellation 
of Mare Chriftianur.i, or Chriftian’s Sea, to the part adja¬ 
cent to Greenland. In the latitude of 60, this navigator 
met with fo much ice as rendered it impracticable for him 
to advance farther north ; he-therefore directed his courle 
to Churchill’s River, where he landed, and where he 
found the ice to be from three hundred to three hun¬ 
dred and fixty feet in thicknefs. Here the greater part 
of his men were attacked by the feurvy, which was fol¬ 
lowed by the dyfentery ; and, on the 4th of June, 1620, 
Munck himfelf was taken fo ill that he remained four 
days without food or drink, as his provifions were al- 
moft entirely exhaufted. On crawling out of his hut, 
after recovering fome degree of ftrength, he found no 
more than two of his men alive ; though the crews of his 
two Ihips had confided of fixty-four. Thefe two men 
were overjoyed to fee their commander; and the three 
furvivors endeavoured to give each other every aftiftance 
in their power. The ice being dillolved on the 18th, they 
began to filh for falmon and trout; and in a little time 
they were completely reftored to health. They now left 
the larger of the two veflels in the river, giving it the 
name of Munck’s~Harbour; and let out in the fmaller, in 
order to return. Soon after, they loft their boat, and, the 
ice having broken their rudder, they found it very diffi¬ 
cult to repair it. They, however, recovered their boat in 
the courle of ten days; and, after encountering a violent 
ftorrn, which lhattered their mail and carried away their 
fail, they were fo fortunate as to reach a harbour in Nor¬ 
way, and in a few days after arrived at Copenhagen, where 
the king, who had conftdered Munck as loft, was much 
aftonilhed to lee him. Munck was afterwards employed 
by his fovereign in the North Sea, and in the Elbe, in the 
years 1624, 1625, and 1627; and died in the month of 
June, 1628, during a maritime expedition. Forjicr's Hif- 
tomj of the Difcoveries in the North. 
MUN'CY CREE'K, a river of Pennfylvania, which 
runs into the Sufquehannah two miles north of Sunhury. 
MUND, a river of the duchy of Cleves, which runs 
into the Rhine three miles below Orfoy. 
MUND,./!— Mund is peace; from which ou.r lawyers call 
a breach of the peace, mundbrecli: Eadmund is happy 
peace; ZEthelmund, noble peace; ZElmund, all peace $ 
with which thefe are much of the lame import; Iremcus, 
Hefychius, Lenis, Pacatus, Sedatus, Tranquillus,&c. Gib- 
Jon's Camden. 
MUN'DA. See Monda. 
MUN'DA VAL'LI,,/! in botany. SeeMOMEA. 
MUNDANAQOQ'DY, a town of Hindooftan, in GoN 
conda : fix miles north of Rachore, 
3 MUNDA'NE, 
