M Y O 
MYN'DER, a ftioal in the ftraits of Macafl’ar, near the 
coaftof theifland of Celebes. Lat. 2.12.S. Ion. 118. 55. E. 
MYN'DES. See Mendes/ vol. xv. p. 89. 
MY'NES, a prince of Lyrneffus, who married Brifeis. 
He was killed by Achilles, and his wife became the pro¬ 
perty of the conqueror. Homer, II. 3. 
MYNHE'ER, J'. [Dutch.] Sir, my lord or matter, 
among the Dutch. Among us, it ufually means a Dutch¬ 
man.—Our connoiffeurs in their zeal all became mynheers. 
Coventry. 
MYNOM'ANIES, Indians inhabiting near the Chipe- 
ways. 
MYNO'W. See Monnow, vol. xv. 
MYN'SICHT (Adrian von, M.D.), count palatine, 
confulting phyfician to the duke of Mecklenburg and fe- 
veral other princes, was celebrated for his knowledge in 
chemiftry, about the beginning of the feventeenth cen¬ 
tury. He was the author of a work upon this fubjeft, 
which was in great vogue in its time, and palled through 
numerous editions. It was entitled “ Thelaurus et Ar¬ 
mamentarium Medico-chymicum, hoc eft, feledftiffimorum, 
contra quofvis morbos, pharmacorum conficiendorum fe- 
cretiffima ratio, cui in fine adjunftum eft Teftamentum 
Hadrianeum de aureo Philofophorum Lapide Ham¬ 
burgh, 1631, &c. There is a great deal of credulity, and 
not a little myftery, in the defcription of the various 
chemical, medicinal, and alchemiftical, procefles, which 
this work contains, and of the potent virtues afcribed to 
them in the treatment of difeafes. Several of his prepa¬ 
rations, however, came into common ufe, and were long 
retained in the difpenfatories. Eloy. Did. Hiji. 
MY'O, a fmall ifland in the Eaftern Indian Sea, for¬ 
merly inhabited ; but the Dutch will not fuffer any per- 
fon to live there, left they fliould finuggle fpices. It is 
fubjeft to the king of Ternate. Lat. 1. 23. N. Ion. 122. 
20. E. 
MY O, a town of Mexico, in the province of Culiacan : 
110 miles north-weft of Culiacan. 
MYOCEPH'ALON, f. [from the Gr. facia, a fly, and 
x. r,(paXvi, the head.] In iurgery, a tumour formed on the 
iris, and refembling the head of a fly. 
MYOG'RAPHY, /.' [from the Gr. p.vc, a mufcle, and 
yfcc(pa, to write.] A defcription of the mufcles. 
MYOL'OGY, J'. [front the Gr. y-v;, a mufcle, and Xoyo?, 
difcourfe.] The defcription and dodtrine of the mufcles. 
See Anatomy. —To inftance in all the particulars, were 
to write a whole fyftem of myology. Cheyne. 
MYOM'ANCY, /.' [from the Gr. pvq, a moufe, and 
y. u'j'taa., magic.] A kind of divination, or method of fore¬ 
telling future events, by means of mice. 
Some authors hold ntyomancy to be one of the moft 
ancient kinds of divination ; and think it is on this ac¬ 
count that Ilaiah, lxvi. 17. reckons mice among the abo¬ 
minable things of the idolaters. But, befides that it is 
not certain that the Hebrew word ufed by the prophet 
flgnifies a moule, it is evident that it is not the divina¬ 
tion by that animal, be it what it will, that is fpoken of, 
but the eating it. 
MYO'NIA, in ancient geography, a town of Greece, 
belonging to the Locri Ozolii, fituated on a very lofty 
mountain, which had a facred wood, and an altar dedi¬ 
cated to the meek or gentle gods, to whom facrifices were 
offered in the night. Pofidonium was a place near this 
town, dedicated to Neptune, where w»as a temple dedi¬ 
cated to this deity, but without ftatues, according to 
Paufanias. 
MYONI'MA, f. [fo called by Commerfon, from the 
Greek p.v;, a moufe, and 0 ropi, to be lerviceable, in allu- 
flon to the French name hois de rat; becaufe the fruit is a 
favourite food of that genus of animals.] Rat-seed; in 
botany, a genus of the clafs tetrandria, order monogynia, 
natural order rubiaceas, Jujf. Generic Characters—Ca¬ 
lyx : perianthium fuperior, very fmall, nearly entire. 
C’Qrolla : of one petal; tube fliort, cylindrical ; limb in 
four deep, equal, blunt, fegments. Stamina: filaments 
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four, inferted into the tube of the corolla, alternate with 
the fegments of the limb ; antheras oblong, projecting 
beyond the corolla. Piftillum : gennen globofe, inferior, 
ftyle (hort, cylindrical ; ftigma capitate. Pericarpium : 
drupe dry, roundilh, depreffed, deftitute of any crown or 
rim. Seed: nut of four cells, with four kernels, which 
are externally convex.— EJJential Charader. Calyx mi¬ 
nute, nearly entire; corolla in four deep equal fegments, 
with a Ihort tube; drupe inferior; nut of four cells. 
There are two fpecies. 
1. Myonima obovata, or broad-leaved rat-feed : leaves 
obovate, obtufe, with a fmall point; fruit obfcurely qua¬ 
drangular. Gathered by Commerfon, as well as by Son- 
nerat, in the files of Bourbon and Mauritius. A fmooth 
flirub, with numerous oppofite branches, whofe bark is 
cracked and greyifh. Leaves on fliort ftalks, oppofite ; 
near two inches long, and one broad; obovate, entire, 
obtufe, with more or lefs of a Ihort point; their upper 
furface ftiining as if varniflied; the under opaque and 
paler; both beautifully reticulated with tranfverfe inter¬ 
branching veins. Flower-ftalks axillary, oppofite from 
the uppermoft leaves, moftly two or three-flowered, fcarce- 
ly fo long as the leaves ; calyx fometimes obfcurely four¬ 
toothed ; corolla hardly half an inch in diameter. Fruit 
reddilh, the (ize of a fmall grape. BraCtes fmall, acute, 
oppofite at the divifion of the flower-ftalks. 
2. Myonima lanceolata, or myrtle-leaved rat-feed : 
leaves elliptic-lanceolate, acute. Fruit fpherical. Native 
of the ifland of Mauritius. The leaves are much finaller 
than in the foregoing, and of a narrower more-lanceolate 
ftiape, fomewhat revolute, entire, their upper furface 
highly polfihed. Fruit reddifli, more exactly globular 
than in the former fpecies. 
MYONNF.'SOS, in ancient geography, a to .vn of Ionia, 
between Teios and Lebedus. Step/i. Hyz. Strabo makes 
it a peninfula, and Livy, a promontory : it was an ifland 
of the Teians, according to Thucydides. It appears to 
have been placed on the coaft north-weft of Lebedus, and 
that the land projected in form of a peninfula.—Alfo, 
an ifland of Theffaly, over-againft Larfifa, according to 
Strabo. 
MYOPA'RO, f Among the Romans, a kind of fltip, 
which partly refembled a merchant-fhip, and partly a fltip 
of war: it was that which pirates moftly ufed. 
MY'OPE,/ [myope, Fr. y.vuf, Gr. from pro to, to clofe 
or fhut, and w\]/, the eye.] A fliort-fighted perfon. It is 
fometimes myops in the Angular number; and myope is 
uncommon.-— Myops are properly fuch as fee remote ob¬ 
jects confufedly and near ones diftinftly. Thofe who 
labour under the oppofite defedV, are called pre(hytce. 
Chambers .— Myopes may ufe telefcopes without eye-glailes, 
an objeff-glafs being as ufeful to them as a combination 
of glafles, and fometimes more fo. Defaguliers. 
The defedt of myopes is not in the optic nerve, the 
pupil, or the like; but in the form of the cornea or cryf- 
talline, or the diftance of the retina from the fame. The 
cryftalline or cornea being rounder or more prominent 
than ordinary, the rays will be rendered more convergent 
than ordinary, in palling through the fame. By this 
means they will be brought to meet or concur at a lefs 
diftance from the cryftalline; fo that, if the retina be at its 
ufual diftance, they will concur before they reach it. It 
is the too great nearnefs, then, of the retina to the cryf¬ 
talline, that conftitutes the myopia. Now, lince the nearer 
an objedt is to the eye, the greater is its image, thefe 
people can fee much finaller objedls than others, as they 
fee much nearer ones with the fame diftindtnefs ; and 
their Jight continues longer good than that of other people, 
becaufe the cornea, as they grow old, becomes lels pro¬ 
tuberant, from the want of that redundancy of humours 
with which they were filled before. On the contrary, old 
men having the cornea of their eyes too flat, for want of 
a fuflicient quantity of the aqueous humour, if the rays 
diverge too much before they enter the eye, they cannot 
be brought to a‘•focus when they reach the retina; on 
which 
