M U T 
424 M U T 
Ion. 85. 10. E.—A fort of Hindooftan, in Bahai': thirty- 
fix miles north-north-weft of Chuprah. Lat. 26. 17. N. 
Ion. 84. 28. E. 
MUF'TEN, a town of Swiflerland, in the canton of 
Schwitz, fitualed in a valley called Muitenthal, watered 
by a fmall river, called alio Mut.ten , which runs into the 
lake of the four cantons : fix miles eaft of Schwitz, 
2 i? MUT'TER, v.n. [mnlire, mu fa re, Lat. or ' mnttra, 
Su. Goth.] To grumble; to murmur.—They may tref- 
pafs, and do as they pleafe; no man dare actufe them, 
nor lo much as matter again ft them. Burton. 
What would you afk me, that I would deny, 
Or ftand fo mull'ring on ? Shahefpeare's Othello. 
To MUT'TER, v.a. To utter with imperfeft articula¬ 
tion ; to grumble forth.—Your lips have fpoken lies, 
your tongue hath muttered perverfenefs. Ifa. lix. 3. 
A hateful prattling tongue, 
That blows up jealoulies, and heightens fears, 
By muttering- poilonous whifpers in men’s ears. Creech- 
MUT'TER, /. Murmur; obfeure utterance: 
Without his rod revers’d, 
And backward .mutters of diffevering power, 
We cannot free the lady. Milton's Comus. 
MUT'TERER,/ Grumbler; murmurer.—The words 
of a mutterer are as wounds going into the innermoft part 
of the belly. Burrow on the Decalogue. 
MUTTERING, / Murmur; utterance of a low voice. 
—-The magicians came with wicked difpoiitions, to fet 
themfelves againft Mofes, and ufed all their wicked arts 
and incantations, mutlerings, and diabolical ceremonies. 
Fleetwood on Miracles. 
MUT'TERINGLY, adv. With a low voice; without 
diftinft articulation. 
MUT'TF.RSTADT, late a town of France, in the 
(now diftevered) department of Mont-Tonnerre, and 
chief place of a canton, in the diltrift of Spire. The 
place contains 1415 inhabitants. 
MUT'TON, f. [rnouton, Fr.] The fleflt of ftieep drefted 
for food.—The fat of roafted mutton or beef, falling on the 
birds, will balte them. Swift .—A fheep. Now only in lu¬ 
dicrous language. —Here’s too fmall a pafture for fuch ftore 
of muttons. Shahefpeare. —The flefh of muttons is better 
tailed where the (heep feed upon wild thyme and whole- 
fome herbs. Bacon. —Within a few days were brought 
out of the country two thouiand muttons. Hayward's 
Edw. VI.—A courtezan.—The old lecher hath gotten holy 
mutton to him; a nunne, my lord. Green's Friar Bacon. 
-—I have a piece of mutton and a feather-bed for you at 
all times. Marjlon's Dutch Courtezan. —Sometimes with 
laced prefixed.—Cupid hath got me a ftomach, and I long 
for laced mutton. Middleton's Blurt. Mr. Conftahle. 
MUTTON BA'Y, a bay on the north fide of the river 
St. Lawrence, on the coaft of Canada. Lat. 48.25. N. 
Ion. 69. W. 
MUTTON-FIS'T, j. A hand large and red : 
Will he who faw the foldier’s mutton-fift. 
And faw thee maul’d, appear within the lift 
To witnefs truth ? Dryden's Juvenal. 
MUTTON-MONGER, f. A wencher.—Is’t poftible 
the Lord Hipolito ftiould be a mutton-monger ! Dekker's 
Honrjl Whore. 
MUT'TRA. See Matura, vol. xiv. 
MUT'TY, a town of Hindooftan, in Guzerat: fixty 
miles weft of Noanagur. 
MUTTYA'RA, a town of Bengal: fourteen miles 
eaft of Kilhenagur. 
MUTUAL, adj. [ mutuel , Fr. mutuus, Lat.] Recipro¬ 
cal ; each afting in return or correfpondence to the other: 
Note a wild and wanton herd, 
Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud. 
If they perchance but hear at trumpet found. 
You ftiall perceive them- make a mutual ftand, 
By the fweet power of mufick. 1 Shakcfp. Mercli. of Yen. 
What fhould moll excite a mutual flame. 
Your rural cares and pleafures are the fame. Pope. 
Vaugelas, the celebrated French grammarian, makes a 
diftinftion between mutual and reciprocal Mutual, ac¬ 
cording to him, is underftood of what is between two 
only ; and reciprocal of what is between more than two. 
But this diftinftion is little regarded in common ufe. 
Mutual Testament is that made by two perfons 
who leave their effefts reciprocally to the furvivor. 
MUTUA'LES. See Metuales, vol xv. 
MUTUAL'ITY,/.’ Reciprocation.—Villanous thoughts, 
Roderigo ! when thefe mutualities fo marlhal the way, 
hard at hand comes vhe incorporate conclulion. Shakefp. 
MUTUALLY, adv. Reciprocally ; in return.—The 
tongue and pen mutually affift one another, writing what 
we lpeak, and fpeaking what we write. Holder. 
May I the facred pleafures know 
Of llrifteft amity, nor ever want 
A friend with whom I mutually may fhare 
Gladnefs and anguilh. Philips. 
MUTUAPOL'LAM ; or Mooteapollam, a town of 
Hindooftan, in the Carnatic : five miles fouth of Cud- 
dalore. 
MUTUATION, J". The aft of borrowing—Here is.a 
fale, there a lending : in both there feems to be a valua¬ 
tion of time ; which, .whether in cafe of mutnation or fale, 
may juftly be fufpefted for unlawful. Bp. Hall's Cafes of 
Confcience. 
MUTUATI'TIOUS, adf Borrowed ; taken from fome 
other.—Her goodly wares of mercenary mafles, of pardons 
and indulgences, of the mutuatitious good works of their 
pretended holy men and women. More again/l Idolatry. 
MUTU'CHI, f. in botany. See Pterocarpus. 
MUTULE, /.’ in architefture, a part of the Doric cor¬ 
nice, appearing to fupport the corona and the fuperior 
members, formed by three vertical parallelograms at right 
angles, and an inclined plane which delcends towards the 
front of the cornice, until it meets the reftangular verti¬ 
cal plane, the inclined plane being the foffit, and the two 
vertical parallel planes being at right angles to the furface 
of the frieze, and the vertical plane on the front parallel 
thereto. Mutules had their origin from the ends of 
rafters in the original wooden ftruftures, and are, there¬ 
fore, properly reprefented with a declination towards the 
front of the corona ; though reprefented by an architeft 
of the lait century with a level foffit. 
In Grecian architefture, a triglyph is placed at each 
angle of the building, and, confequently, a mutule over 
each triglyph at the lame place, and a triglyph and a mu¬ 
tule are placed over each intermediate column ; alfo over 
each intercolumn there is only one triglyph, except in 
the Doric portico, which has two in the middle interco- 
lumniations, in order to allow greater room for palfage. 
The mutules are the fame breadth as the triglyphs. In 
the Grecian Doric, three rows of drops, parallel to the 
front of the corona, are hung from each foffit of a mutule ; 
the number in each row being fix, agreeing with thofe in 
the architrave under the triglyphs. 
MUTU'NUS, or Mutinus, a deity among the Romans, 
much the fame as the Priapus of the Greeks. The Roman 
matrons, and particularly new-married women, difgraced 
themfelves by the obfeene ceremonies which cuftom 
obliged them to obferve before the llatue of this impure 
deity. Augu/t. de Civ. Dei. 
MUTUUM, f, in the civil law, denotes a loan fimply 
fo called ; or a contraft introduced by the law of na¬ 
tions, whereby a thing coniifting in weight, as fuppofe 
bullion ; in number, as money ; or in meafure, as corn, 
timber, wine, &c. is given to another, upon condition 
that he t'nall return another thing of the lame quantity, 
nature, and value, on demand. This, therefore, is a 
contraft without reward 5 fo that, vvh.ere ufe or filtered 
arifes, 
