Mizzen
or MIZEN, the aftermost of the fore-and-aft sails of a ship; called also the spanker or spencer. Also the aftermost mast in a three-masted ship, or in those two-masted ships in which the forward mast is the larger, such as the ketch and yawl. The main is always the larger mast. When the larger mast in a two-masted vessel is forward, the one abaft, is the mizzen, when the larger mast is abaft, the one nearer the bows is the fore-mast. a MJÖSEN, lake in Norway, the largest inland body of water in' that country. It is 62 miles in length with an average width of about two miles.
Its shores are an attractive summer resort.
MNEMONICS (ne-mon'iks), the art of assisting the memory; a method of recalling to the mind facts, or numbers.
All of the various systems that have been proposed are based on the psychological law of association, where a fact, or figure, is recalled by its association, or relation to something else more easily remembered. The familiar rhyme, "30 days hath September," is a simple illustration. Mnemonics have been used by medical students for many years to recall the names of muscles, and the order of cerebral nerves, and students in logic use devices to remember parts of syllogisms. Many of these devices depend on number and letter relations, and others on sound and rhyme relations. 'The majority of these memory aids are purely mechanical, having some value in certain studies and in salesmanship, and other commercial pursuits. in MNEMOSYNE (nē-mos'i-nē), in Greek mythology, the daughter of Uranus, and mother of the nine muses by Zeus. The principal seat of her worship was at Eleutheræ, in Bœotia.