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HENRY MOSSOP (1729–1774)

JOHN [JOSEPH] MOST (1846-1906)

MORITZ MOSZKOWSKI (1854- )

WILLIAM MOTHERWELL (1797-1835)

PIERRE ANTOINE MOTIEUX (1663-1718)

MOTION (Lat. motio, from movere, to move)

MOTIVE (from Lat. movere, to move)

JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY (1814–1897)

ELECTRIC MOTORS

LUCRETIA [COFFIN] MOTT (1793–188o)

VALENTINE MOTT (1785–1865)

FRANCOISE BERTAUT DE MOTTEVILLE (c. 1621-1689)

FELIX MOTTL (1856- )

MOTTO (an Italian word, from Late Lat. muttum, a low sound, a mutter or murmur, cf. mutere, to mutter; the Latin word also gives Fr. mot, word)

AMEDEE ERNEST BARTHELEMY MOUCHEZ (1821-1892)

MOUFLON, or MUFLON

MOULIN (Fr. moulin, a mill)

MOULMEIN (or MAULMEIN)

LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON (1835-1908)

WILLIAM MOULTRIE (1730-1805)

JEAN JOSEPH MOUNIER (1758-18o6)

MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE

WILLIAM SIDNEY MOUNT (1807-1868)

MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)

THE MOUNTAIN (La Montagne)

MOUNTEBANK (Ital. montambanco, montimbanco, from montare, to climb up on, mount, and banco, bench, cf. saltimbanco, an acrobat' or dancer, one who dances or leaps on a bench)

MOUNTED INFANTRY

WILLIAM MOUNTFORT (c. 1664-1692)

MOUNTJOY (or MoNTJoY), BARONS AND VISCOUNTS

BARON GEORGE STEPHEN MOUNTSTEPHEN (1829- )

MOURNING (from the verb " to mourn," to be sorrowful, 0. Eng. murnan; cf. O.H.G. mornen, Goth. maurnan, to be anxious, O.N. morna, to pine away; by some referred to root seen in Gr. jdptpva, sorrow, by others to root mer-, to die)

MODESTE PETROVICH MOUSSORGSKY (1835-1881)

MOUSTACHE, or MUSTACHIO

MOUTH AND SALIVARY GLANDS

MOUTHPIECE (Fr. embouchure; Ger. Mundstuck; Ital. bocchino)

FRANZ KARL MOVERS (18o6–1856)

SIR OLIVER MOWAT (1820-1903)

HARRY SIDDONS MOWBRAY (1858– )

ROBERT MOWBRAY (d. 1125)

EDWARD MOXON (18o1-1858)

MOZAMBIQUE [Sao Sebastiao de Mocambique]

coll. Musta`riba] a corruption of the Arabic Musta'rib MOZARAB [Spanish Mozdrabe

WOLFGANG AMADEUS1 MOZART (1756–1791)

JAMES BOWLING MOZLEY (1813—1878)

THOMAS MOZLEY (1806-1893)

MPONGWE (PONGOS)

MTSENSK (popularly Ainchensk)

MUBARRAD, or MOBARRAD [Abu-1 `Abbas Mahommed ibn Yazid ul-Azdi] (c. 826-898)

LICINIUS MUCIANUS

C6H1008 MUCIC ACID

MUCILAGE (from Late Lat. mucilago, a mouldy juice, from mucere, to be mouldy)

MUCKERS (Ger. Muckern, i.e. canting bigots, hypocrites)

MUDANIA (anc. Apamea Myrlea)

CHARLES EDWARD MUDIE (1818—189o)

FREIHERR FRIEDRICH KARL FERDINAND MUFFLING

LODOWICKE MUGGLETON (1609–1698)

MUHAMRAH (MOIAMMERAH)

HENRY MELCHIOR MUHLENBERG (1711–1787)

JOHN PETER GABRIEL MUHLENBERG (1746–1807)

WILLIAM AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG (1796-1877)

JOHN MUIR (1810-1882)

SIR WILLIAM MUIR (1819-1905)

MUKDEN (Chinese Sheengking)

MUKDISHU (Magodoxo)

MULATTO (Span. and Port. mulato, diminutive of mulo, Lat. mulus, a mule, used as denoting a hybrid origin)

MULBERRY 2 (botanically Morus; nat. ord. Moraceae)

MULE (Lat. mulus)

EARLDOM OF MULGRAVE

MULHAUSEN (Fr. Mulhouse)

KURSENDAS MULJI (1832–1875)

MULLAH (Arabic maula, a term which originally expresses the legal bond connecting a former owner with his manumitted slave, both patron and client being called maula, and thus suggests the idea of patronage)

BARON FERDINAND VON MULLER (1825–1896)

FRIEDRICH MULLER (1749-1825)

GEORGE MULLER (1805-1898)

JOHANNES PETER MULLER (18o1-1858)

JOHANNES VON MULLER (1752-1809)

JULIUS MULLER (18oi-1878)

KARL OTFRIED MULLER (1797-1840)

LUCIAN MULLER (1836-1898)

WILHELM MULLER (1794-1827)

WILLIAM JAMES MULLER (1812-1845)

MULLION (corrupted from " munnion "; this is derived from Fr. moignon, stump)

AMANDUS GOTTFRIED ADOLF MULLNER (1774—1829)

SIR WILLIAM MULOCK (1843– )

WILLIAM MULREADY (1786–1863)

MULTAN, or MOOLTAN

MULTIPLEPOINDING

MULTITUBERCULATA

LUCIUS MUMMIUS (2nd century B.c.)

MUMMY (from the Persian mumiai, pitch or asphalt)

MUMPS (syn. Cynanche parotidaea, parotitis; also, " The Branks ")

COUNT ADRIEN ALBERT MARIE DE MUN (1841— )

THOMAS MUN (1571–1641)

BARON MUNCHAUSEN

MUNDAY (or MONDAY), ANTHONY (c. 1553-1633)

ANTHONY JOHN MUNDELLA (1825-1897)

JOSEPH SHEPHERD MUNDEN (1758—1832)

THEODOR MUNDT (18o8–1861)

MUNI RIVER SETTLEMENTS, or SPANISH GUINEA

MUNICH (Ger. Munchen)

MUNICIPIUM (Lat. munus, a duty or privilege, capere, to take)

MICHAEL VON MUNKACSY (1844-1900)

COUNT BURKHARD CHRISTOPH MUNNICH (1683-1767)

HUGH ANDREW JOHNSTONE MUNRO (1819-1885)

SIR HECTOR MUNRO (1726-1805)

SIR THOMAS MUNRO (1761-1827)

MUNSHI, or MOONSHI

MUNSTER AM STEIN

SEBASTIAN MUNSTER (1489-1552)

HUGO MUNSTERBERG (1863– )

RAMON MUNTANER (1265-1336?)

THOMAS MUNZER (c. 1489-1525)

WERNER MUNZINGER (1832-1875)

MURAD, or AMURATH

MURAL DECORATION

MURANO (anc. Ammariuno)

JOACHIM MURAT (1767—1815)

COUNT MICHAEL NIKOLAIEVICH MURAVIEV (1845-1900)

SIR RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON (1792-1871)

WILLIAM MURDOCK (1754-1839)

SIR WILLIAM MURE (1594–1657)

WILLIAM MURE (1799–1860)

MUREBIDE (NH4.C8H4N506,H2O)

BARTOLOME ESTEBAN MURILLO (1617-1682)

ADAM MURIMUTH (c. 1274-1347)

THOMAS MURNER (1475-1537 ?)

ARTHUR MURPHY (1727–1805)

JOHN FRANCIS MURPHY (1853– )

ROBERT MURPHY (1806-1843)

MURRAIN (derived through O. Fr. morine, from Lat. mori, to die)

MURRAY (or MORAY), EARLS OF

MURRAY (or MORAY), JAMES STUART, EARL OF (c. 1531-1570)

MURRAY (or MORAY), SIR ROBERT (c. 1600-1673)

MURRAY COD (Oligorus macquariensis)

ALEXANDER STUART MURRAY (1841-1904)

DAVID MURRAY (1849– )

EUSTACE CLARE GRENVILLE MURRAY (1824–1881)

JAMES MURRAY (c. 1719-1794)

JOHN MURRAY (1778–1820)

LINDLEY MURRAY (1745–1826)

LORD GEORGE MURRAY (1694–1760)

SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY MURRAY (1837– )

SIR JOHN MURRAY (1841– )

MURSHIDABAD, or MOORSHEEDABAD

JOHANN KARL AUGUST MUSAUS (1735-1787)

MUSCLE AND NERVE (Physiology))

MUSCLES OF THE HEAD AND FACE (see fig. 2)

MUSCLES OF THE LOWER EXTREMITY

MUSCLES OF THE NECK (fig. q)

MUSCLES OF THE UPPER EXTREMITY

MUSCULAR RHEUMATISM

MUSCULAR SYSTEM (Anatomy 1)

THE MUSES (Gr. Mo6o-at, the thinkers)

COLIN MUSET (/l. 1200)

MUSEUMS OF SCIENCE

SAMUEL MUSGRAVE (1732-1780)

MUSICAL NOTATION

MUSK (Med. Lat. muscus, late Gr. µbvXos, possibly Pers. mushk, from Sansk. mushka, the scrotum)

MUSKET (Fr. mousquet, Ger. Muskete, &c.)

MUSKHOGEAN STOCK

MUSLIN (through Fr. mousseline from It. mussolino, diminutive of Mussolo, i.e. the town Mosul in Kurdistan)

JAMES MUSPRATT (1793-1886)

PIETER VAN MUSSCHENBROEK (1692–1761)

MUSSEL (0. Eng. muscle, Lat. musculus, diminutive of mus, mouse, applied to small sea fish and mussels)

LOUIS CHARLES ALFRED DE MUSSET (1810-18S7)

MUSSOORIE, or MASURI

MUSTAFA RESHID PASHA (1800-1858)

MUSTER (Mid. Eng. mostre, moustre, adapted from the similar O. Fr. forms; Lat. monstrare)

MARCUS MUSURUS (c. 147o-1517)

MUTE (Lat. tnutus, dumb)

KONRAD MUTIAN (1471-1526)

MUTILATION (from Lat. mutilus, maimed)

MUTINY (from an old verb " mutine," O. Fr. mutin, meutin, a sedition; cf. mod. Fr. emeute; the original is the Late Lat. mota, commotion, from movere, to move)

MUTSU HITO, MIKADO, or EMPEROR, OF JAPAN (1852— )

COUNT MUNEMITSU MUTSU (1842-1896)

MUTTRA, or MATHURA

MUTULE (Lat. mutulus, a stay or bracket)

GIROLAMO MUZIANO (1528-1592)

GIOVANNI MUZZIOLI (1854-1894)

MYCETOZOA (Myxomycetes, Schleimpilze)

FRIEDRICH MYCONIUS (1490-1546)

OSWALD MYCONIUS (1488-1552)

MYDDELTON (or MIDDLETON), SIR HUGH, BART

MYELITIS (from Gr. µueN6s, marrow)

FREDERIC WILLIAM HENRY MYERS (1843-1901)

MYLODON (Gr. for " mill-tooth " from /Ark in, and Mobs)

MYLONITE (Gr. iwXwv, a mill)

MYMENSINGH, or MAIMANSINGH

SIR CHRISTOPHER MYNGS (1625–1666)

MYRA (mod. Dembre)

MYRIAPODA (Gr. for " many-legged ")

MYRRH (from the Latinized form myrrha of Gr. µuppa; the Arabic murr, bitter, was applied to the substance from its bitterness)

MYSTERY (Gr. µw(Trilpcov, from tcuvrm, an initiate, µfew, to shut the mouth)

MYSTICISM (from Or. µuety, to shut the eyes; µuorrts, one initiated into the mysteries)

MYXOEDEMA (or athyrea)

THOMAS NABBES (b. 16o5)

NABIGHA DHUBYANT

NAQUAIRE NAKEB NACAIRE (Arab. naqdra)

NACHMANIDES (NAVMANIDES)

GUSTAV NACHTIGAL (1834-1885)

TAMAS I NADASDY

CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN (1858-1889)

NADIA, or NUDDEA

NADIM (Abulfaraj Mahommed ibn Ishaq ibn abi Ya`qub un-Nadim] (d. 995)

NADIR (Arabic nadir, " opposite to," used elliptically for nadir-es-semt, "opposite to the zenith ")

KARL WILHELM VON NAEGELI (1817-1891)

GNAEUS NAEVIUS (c. 264–? 194 B.C.)

CARL FRIEDRICH NAGELSBACH (1806-1859)

NAGYSZEBEN (Ger. Hermannstadt, Rumanian Sibiu)

NAGYSZOMBAT (Ger. Tyrnau)

NAHUATLAN STOCK

NAHUM (Hebrew for " rich in comfort [is God] ")

NAIL (O. Eng. naegal, cf. Dutch, Ger., Swed. nagel; the word is also related to Lat. unguis, Gr. ovu, Sans. nakhas)

NAIL VIOLIN (Ger..Nagelgeige, Nagelharmonica)

BARONESS CAROLINA NAIRNE (1766-1845)

ISRAEL BEN MOSES NAJARA

NAKHICHEVAN, or NAKHJEVAN

NAKHON SRI TAMMARAT (also known as LAKHON and formerly as LIGORE)

NAME (O. Eng. mama; cognate forms in Teutonic languages are Dutch naam, Ger. Name, &c., but the word is common to all Indo-European languages; cf. Gr. ovoya, Lat. nomen, Sans. ndman, &c.)

NAMUR (Flemish, Namen)

NANA FARNAVIS (1741-18o0)

NANDAIR, or NANDER

NANKING (" the southern capital ")