Mulhar Rao Iiolkar
Iiolkar, Mulhar Rao, The First Of The Name Known In History, Was A Mahratta Soldier, Who Having Been Instrumental In Extending The Conquests Of His Nation, Under The Firet Peshwa, Towards The North Of India, Received A Grant Of Land In Malwa About 1736. Ultimately One Half Of That Large ...
Mullion
Mullion (by Some Supposed To Be A Corruption Of Munnion, From The Latin Munio, To Defend Or Strengthen), A Term In Gothio Architec Ture Applied To The Upright Bars, Or Stone Shafts, Dividing The General Aperture Of A Window Into Secondary Openings, Which Are Again In Per Pendicular Or Third ...
Mummy
Mummy, A Name Derived From The Persian And Arable Word Mom, Signifying Wax ; Or Even Posssibly Contracted From The Greek Word Ansomosa, Introduced Into Use About The 15th Century, Expressive Of An Embalmed Or Dried Body, Either Of A Man Or Animal, Preserved, By Resinous Gums, Vets, Or Salt, ...
Municipal Corporations
Municipal Corporations. A Municipal Corporation, As At Present Understood, May Be Defined To Be A Body Politic Formed For The Purpose Of Local Government. Other Bodies Politic Or Corporate Exist For The.advancement Of Religion,learning, Or Commerce. The Municipal Cor Poration Is Concerned With The Regulation Of The Social And Financial ...
Municipium
Municipium, A Term Which Properly Denotes, According To Its Etymology (mama And Capio), The Capacity Of Enjoying Rights With The Liability To Duties. It Is However Used In The Ancient Roman Writers To Express A Class Or Body, The Members Of Which Are Called Municipes. Munielpium, As A Collective Name ...
Murals
Murals Is A Word Used In Several Different Senses, Which It Is Desirable To Distinguish 1. It Has Been Employ Ed, Together With The Expressions Wool Plobsophy And Moral S•ience, To Denote) The Whole Field Of Knowledge Relating Primarily To The Mind Of Man ; And In This Sense His ...
Murder
Murder. In Tho Earlier Periods Of English Jurisprudence, Murder, Tnunlrent, Was A Term Used To Describe The Secret Destruction Of Life, Witnessed And Known By None Besides The Slayer And Any Accomplices That He Might Have ; So That The Huo And Cry, Which The Law Required To Be Made ...
Muses
Muses (mesa, In Latin ; Morlos, In Greek), The Namo Of Certain Sister Goddesses In The Greek Mythology, Who Were Supposed To Preside Over The Arts Of Poetry And Music, And The Sciences Of History And Astronomy. The Original Conception Of The Muses Must Be Sought For In That Disposition ...
Music
Music (musique, Fr. ; Musket, Movcruci, Gr., From Acolicra A Muse Or Song) Is The Artistic Union Of Inarticulate Sounds And Rhythm, Exciting Agreeable Sensations, And Raising Mental Images And Emotions Directly Or Indirectly Pleasing. Such Is Pure Unmixed Music. When Conjoined To Poetry, It Is An Art Not Of ...
Musk
Musk, Dledieal Properties Of. Musk, Taken In The Dose Of A Few Grains, Rouses The Energy Of The Digestive Organs ; And It Soon After Wards Produces Sympathetic Phenomena, The Powers Of The Whole Animal System Appearing Suddenly Increased. By Repeating The Dose Till Half A Drachm Or A Drachm ...
Mutiny Act
Mutiny Act Is An Annual Measure Passed By Parliament To Confer On The Executive Government The Right To Raise And Maintain In This Country For The Ensuing Year A Standing Army, Consisting Of A Specified Number Of Men, And Subject To The Laws And Discipline Of War Com Prised In ...
Myelitis
Myelitis. Inflammation Of The Substance Of The Spinal Cord. The Spinal Cord Is Liable To The Same Inflammatory Affections As The Brain. [mesinoms.] It Is Covered Like The Brain With Membranes, Which May Be Diseased Independent Of The Substance Of The Cord, Which Like The Soft Part Of The Brain ...
Mystery
Mystery (uuo-rhplow). In The Religion Of The Greeks There Were Rites And Doctrines Which Were Kept Secret From The Mass Of The People And Only Communicated To A Chosen Few. These Things Were Called Mysteries. This Word Has Been Adopted By The Writers Of The New Testament, Who Apply It ...
Mystics
Mystics, A Christian Sect Which Arose In The 2nd Century, And Whose Principles Are Probably To Be Traced To The Philosophy Of The Christian Platonists Of Alexandria, Ammonius &ems And His Followers. They First Appear As A Distinct Sect In The 4th Century, Under The Teaching Of A Grecian Fanatic, ...
Mythology
Mytho'logy (ovooxcryfa). The Mythology Of A People May Be Said To Consist Of Those Legends And Traditions Which Have Been, At Some Period Or Other, Usually Believed By The Majority Of The Nation, But Which Cannot Be Regarded As Historical Truths On Principles Of Sound Criticism. The Term Therefore, Although ...
N Aumaci1 Ia
N Auma'ci1 Ia, The Representation Of A Sea-fight Among The Romanis, Which Was Sometimes Performed In The Circus Maximus Or Amphi Theatre, Water Being Introduced Sufficient To Float Ships, But More Fre Quently In Places Made Especially For The Purpose, Which Were Called Naumachim. Julius Caesar Appears To Have Been ...
N Udar
N Udar, The Calotropis Gigantea Of Brown, And The Calotropis Mudarii (bush.), Asclepias Gigantea Of Linnaeus. Mudar Is A Plant Common In Sandy Places In Many Parts Of India ; It Has A Milky Juice In Its Stem, Which, As Well As The Bark Of The Root, Enjoyed Such Reputation ...
Nail Manufacture
Nail Manufacture. Until A Comparatively Recent Period Almost Every Kind Of Nail Was Produced By Hand-labour ; Each Nail Was Separately Forged From A Thin Rod Of Iron, A Process Which Is Still Followed In The Production Of What Are Aechuically Known As Wrought Nails. As Nails So Formed Possess ...
Naphtha
Naphtha. The Word Naphtha Is Derived From The Oriental Term Nafata, Signifying To Ooze Out, And Was Originally Applied To A Yellowish White, Volatile, Inflammable, Liquid Hydrocarbon, Which Exudes From The Soil In Certain Parts Of Persia, Italy, &c. The Very Fluid Portions Of Those Natural Tar-like Matters [asphalt; Bitumen; ...
Naphthalic Group
Naphthalic Group, A Division Of The Benzoic Series Of Organic Compounds. It Is Chiefly Composed Of The Derivatives Of Napthtbalin. Naphthalin Or Hydride Of Naplethyl (c„h„ H), Or Naphtha Lene, Was First Discovered By Garden In Coal Tar. Faraday Determined Its Composition, And Laurent Has Particularly Investigated Its Consti Tution. ...
Narcotics
Narcotics (from The Greek Adjective Vapaarrtah, Which Is From Rapah, A Stiffening, Stupor, Or Insensibility), A Class Of Medicines Which May Be Defined—agents Which, In Moderate Doses, Cause A Temporary Increase Of The Action Of The Nervous And Also Of The Vascular System, Followed More Or Less Speedily By A ...
Nat Dist Div Vol
Nat. Dist. Div. Vol. I. Of Wolfish Blood Have An Antipathy To Those That Have, And Worry Them Whenever They Meet. The Wolf-breed Act Only Defensively, And, With His Tail Between His Legs, Endeavours To Evade The Other's Fury. The Wolves In Carolina Are Very Numerous, And More Destructive Than ...
Nat Hist Dip
Nat. Hist. Dip. The Treatment Of The Fleece When Removed From The Animal Is Spoken Of Under Wool And The Wool Trade : See Also Woollen Manufacture. The Sheep Belongs To The Class Mammalia ; To The Order Ruminantia, With Four Stomachs, And The Organs Of Digestion Disposed For Chewing ...
Nat Hist Div
Nat. Hist. Div.); By Dilating Or Contracting The Mouth ; By Contract Ing The Communication Between The Pharynx And Mouth So As To Make Them Distinct Chambers, Or By Dilating The Opening So As To Throw Them Ioto One, Which Is Chiefly Effected By Movements Of The Soft Palate ; ...
Nat Hist Div Vol
Nat. Hist. Div. Vol. I. To The Margin. It Is Impossible To Express The Liveliness Of The Motions Of Those Delicate Organs, Or The Beautiful Variety Of Colours That Rise From Them While They Play To And Fro In The Rays Of The Sun ; Nor Is It More Easy ...
Nat Itist Div Vol
Nat. Itist. Div. Vol. I. Remarking On The Descriptions Of These Species, Professor Owen Says, "a Retrospect Of The Facts Above Detailed Relative To The Fossil Chelonians Of The Genus Chelone, Or Marine Family Of The Order, Leads To Conclusions Of Much Greater Interest Than The Previous Opinions Respecting The ...
Nat Itist Dm
Nat. Itist. Dm]. This Is Not, However, A Philosophical Classification, Da Many Animals Belonging To This Group In Point Of Structure Have Not Necessarily Parasitical Habits. Another Reason For Getting Rid Of The Term Entozoa Will Be Found In Our Present Knowledge Of The History Of The Development Of Some ...
Nathaniel Lardner
Lardner, Nathaniel, D.d., Was Born In 1684, And Devoted A Long Life To The Prosecution Of Theological Inquiry, To The Exclusion Of Attention To Almost Any Other Subject. The Results Which He Com Municated To The World From Time To Time Show At Once The Assiduity With Which Ho Laboured ...
National Debt
National Debt. The National Debt Consists Of Money Borrowed From Individuals, Under The Authority Of The Legislature Or The Government, And The Security For Which Is All The Property Of The Country. The Money So Raised Is Not To Be Paid On Demand, But Only The Interest Thereon, But, From ...
National Gallery
National Gallery. The Credit Of Founding A National Gallery Of Paintings Ia Due To The Government Of Lord Liverpool. Often As The Importance Of Such A Gallery Had Isseen Urged, It Was Nut Till 1823 That The Intention Was Seriously Entertained By The Govern. Ment, The Subject Was In That ...
Naturalisation
Naturalisation, From The Latin Natures, Natural. "if An Alien Be Naturalised," Says Coke ( Co. Lit., 129, A), " He Shall Be To All Intents As A Natural Subject, And Shall Inherit As If He Had Been Born Within The King's Legiance." (allegiance.) This Rule, However, Is Subject To Some ...
Naval Tactics
Tactics, Naval. This Branch Of The Art Of War Is In Some Respects Similar To That By Which The Operations Of Armies On Land Are Regulated ; And It Is Desirable That The Order Preserved In Tailing Should Resemble That Used In Moving The Battalions Of An Army On Shore. ...
Navigation
Navigation. The History Of The Compass Is The History Of The Rise And Progress Of Navigation. Under That Head (compass) We Have Already Shown The Developments Which In Course Of Time Enabled The Mariner To Abandon The Tediousness Of A Coasting Voyage, When Desirous Of Reaching A Distant Port, And ...
Navy
Navy. A Few Leading Facts As To The Rise And Progress Of The British Navy Will Form A Fitting Introduction To The Main Subject—its Present Constitution And Force. In The Early Part Of The Christian Era, So Rude Was The Build Of Vessela, And So Inadequate Were They To Contend ...