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fore they never offered battle, lifted foldiers, put to fea, 
or married. 
MUNDY (John), in 1594, gentilman, bachiler of mu- ' 
ficke, and one of the crganifts of his majefty’s free chapel 
of Windfor, publiilied ana J 3 fairness comuofcQ into 
three, four, ana fine, Parts, for the ttfc ana Delight of all fuch 
aS cither lone or learn QJhtficke. Thefe are dedicated to the 
unfortunate earl of Eifex, with all the punning, quibbling, 
and eHurts at wit, which the tafte of the times encou¬ 
raged, and indeed required. 
MU'NERARY, adj. [from munus, Lat.] Having the 
nature of a gift. 
To MU'NERATE, v. a. To reward. Cole. 
MUNERA'TION, f. Gift; reward. Lemon. 
MUKG'-CORN, or Mang'-Corn, /. [from mengen, 
Dut. to mingle.] Corn of feveral kinds mixed ; as wheat 
and rye, See. 
MUNGALO'VA, a town of Ruftia, in the government 
of Irkutlk, at the union of the rivers Qna and Uda: 
eighty-eight miles of Verchnei Udinfk. 
MUN'GAR, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Bopal: twenty miles fouth-eaft of Bopaltol. 
MUNGAR'VA, a town of Africa, in Nigritia. Lat. 11. 
4a. N. Ion. 23. 45. E. 
MUN'GLA, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar: thirty- 
three miles fouth-weft ot Patna. 
MUNGLAPET', a town of Hindooftan, in Myfore : 
five miles north of Dalmachery. 
MUNGLO'RE, a town of Candahar : twenty-five miles 
weft of Cachemire, and 130 eaft of Cabul. Lat. 34. 15. N. 
Ion. 71. 15. E. 
MUN'GO, f. A name given in India to the ichneumon- 
wealel, which fights naturally and by choice with the 
ferpents. See Viverra. —The word is ufed in England 
to denote a negro, or black man. 
MUN'GOS, /.’ in botany. See Ophiorhiza.. 
MUNGRA'R, a town of Bengal: twelve miles fouth- 
fouth-weft of Curruckpour. 
MUN'GREL, f. [frequently written mongrel. SeeMoN- 
crel.] Any thing generated between different kinds 5 
any thing partaking of the qualities of different caufes or 
parents: 
Maftiff, greyhound, mnngrel grim. 
Hound or fpaniel,- brache or lym, 
Or bobtail tike, or trundle-tail. Shakcfpcare. 
MUN'GREL, adj. Generated between different na¬ 
tures ; bafeborn ; degenerate.— Mungrel curs bawl, fnarle, 
and fnap, where the fox flies before them; and clap their 
tails between their Tegs when an adverfary makes head 
againft them. L" EJirange. 
MUNGULHAU'T, a large manufacturing town of 
Hindooftan, twelve miles from Calamatty, iituated on 
the fouth fide of the river Durlah, which divides the 
diftridt of Cooch Bahar from that of Rungpore. The 
inhabitants of this town pay a greater attention to the 
comforts and commodioufnefs of living than thofe of 
any other town which captain Turner viiited in India. 
Their houfes, coinpofed of mats inferted between frames 
of bamboo, are neatly thatched ; and each had a portion 
of land encircled with a bamboo palifade. The ftreets 
are fpacious; and boats of large burthen upon the river, 
added to the neatnefs and regularity of the town, give it 
an air of induftry and traffic. The ftaple commodity con- 
fifts of cotton cloths, which furnifh the raoft conliderable 
part of the large returning cargo which is carried by the 
Bootan caravan annually from Rungpore. Turner's Ern- 
bujjij to Tibet. 
MUNHA'Y, a country of Africa, dependent on Mo- 
caranga. 
MU'NI, in Hindoo mythology, is a name applied on a 
variety of occafions, and with feeming confufion and 
contradiction. Mr. Colebrooke, (the worthy fucceffor 
of fir William Jones in the chair of the Afiatic Society 
of Bengal,) on the authority of the Puranas, feems to 
identify the Rifliis and Munis. He calls them “ the vir¬ 
tuous fages, who delight in protecting the people; the 
mighty fages.” Af. Ref. vol. ix. p. 358. (See Rishi.) 
Some authorities enumerate twenty of thefe perfonages, 
who are fometimes called “ infpired writers.” Some¬ 
times they appear as anchorets or afcetics. The appella¬ 
tion is fometimes given to Budfia or Boodh, who is called 
Budha Muni. Both words feem to mean wij'dom, more 
efpecially divine wifdom, or theology : and Muni may 
perhaps be traced to the fame root with Menu, to men or 
man, the mind. See Menu. 
In that curious work of Anquetil du Perron, which 
he ftyles Oupnekhat, the following paftage occurs, tranf- 
lated from one of the Puranas: “ Brahm faid, Rife up, 
O Rudra (or Siva), and form men to govern the world. 
Rudra immediately obeyed : he began the work ; but the 
men he made were fiercer than tigers, having nothing 
but the deftruflive quality in their compofition : and they 
loon deftroyed one another ; for anger was their only 
paffion. Brahma, Villinu, and Rudra, then joined their 
different powers, and created ten men, whole names were 
Nareda, Dakfha, Vafifhta, Brighu, ICritu, Pulaha, Ptilaftya, 
Angira, Afri, and Marichi"; (that is, Reafon, Ingenuity, 
Emulation, Humility, Piety, Pride, Patience, Charity, 
Deceit, Morality ;) the general name of whom is the 
Munis. Brahma then produced Dherma, or Juftice, from 
his breaft; Adherma, Injuftice, from his back; Labha, 
A.ppetite or Paffion, from his lips; and Kama, Love or 
Defire, from his heart. The laft was a beautiful female, 
and Brahma looked upon her with amorous emotions; 
but, the Munis telling him that fhe was his own daughter, 
he fhrunk back, and Ladja, Shame, a blufhing virgin, 
fprung from him. Brahma, deeming his body defiled by 
its emotions towards Kama, purified himfelf by partially 
changing it into ten females, who were refpeCtively 
efpoufed by the Munis.” 
The Hindoo books abound with ftories of the potency 
of thefe devotees, under the names of Rifliis, or Munis. 
On one occafion, Kapila, having been rudely difturbed 
while at his devotion, “ filled with exceffive anger, utter¬ 
ed from his noftrils a loud found, and inftantly by him, 
of immeafurable prowefs, were all the Ions of Sagara 
(60,000 in number) reduced to afhes.” This is from a 
long and extravagant, but poetical, ftory related in the 
firft book of the Ramayana. 
MU'NIA, Ji [Latin.] A mummy ; a fuppofed kind of 
vital lpirit. AJh. 
MUNIA'NEN, a town of Pruffia, in the circle of Na- 
tangen : thirty-fix miles fouth of Konigfberg. 
MU'NIC (Burchard Chriftopher, Count), a celebrated 
general, was born of a noble family, at New-Huntorf, in 
the county of Oldenburgh, in the year 1683. He received 
an excellent education ; and, being endowed with a ready 
genius, and a ftrong defire for the acquirement of know¬ 
ledge, he had made fuch progrefs in languages and fei- 
ences that, at the age offixteen, he was qualified to un¬ 
dertake a tour to France, where he improved himfelf in 
every branch of learning, and applied in particular to 
engineering both civil and military, and alfo to fortifica¬ 
tion. Having by thefe means become advantageoufly 
known to the court of Louis XIV. he was appointed an 
engineer in the French army; but, being unwilling to 
lerve againft the empire, he returned to Germany, and in 
confequence of his knowledge of tadtics was made a cap¬ 
tain by the landgrave of Heffe-Darmftadt, and with his 
troops was prefent at the liege of Landau. Soon after, 
he entered into the fervice of the prince of Heffe-Caffel, 
by whom he was promoted to be a major of the foot- 
guards; and in this fituation he had an opportunity of 
improving himfelf in the art of war under the duke of 
Marlborough and prince Eugene. He diftinguilhed him¬ 
felf by his cool intrepidity in feveral engagements and 
fieges, and particularly at the battle of Malplaquet; 
when, as a recompenle for his bravery, he was railed to 
the rank of lieutenant-colonel. At the battle of Denain, 
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