Mumps
a contagious disease communicated by the saliva, sometimes epidemic, and characterized by a specific swelling and inflammation in the parotid and salivary glands, commonest in children, and in boys rather than girls.
It occurs mostly in spring and autumn, in cold and damp weather.
MUNCHEN. See MUNICH.
MÜNCHEN-GLADBACH. See GLAD- BACH.
MÜNCHHAUSEN, BARON HIERO- NYMUS KARL FRIEDRICH VON (münh'hou-zen), a German-Russian military officer; born in Bodenwerder, Hanover, May 11, 1720. He served in his youth as an officer in the Russian cavalry, and passed the close of his life in his native country, delighting in narrating the most astounding stories of his warlike exploits in the campaign against of 2, 5 and 6. The least common multiple the Turks in 1737-1739, and thereby gainis the smallest number which will do this; thus, 24 is a common multiple of 3 and 4, but 12 is their least common multiple.
Multiple point of a curve: In geometry, a point in which two or more branches of a curve intersect each other. The analytical characteristic of a multiple point of a curve is, that at it the first differential co-efficient of the ordinate must have two or more values. this; ing the reputation of being the greatest liar of his time. He died in Bodenwerder, Feb. 22, 1797. A compilation of his prodigious "yarns" was published in London in 1785, under the title of "Baron Münchausen's Narrative of His Marvelous Travels and Campaigns in Russia."