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Murray – Mustelide

Murray

JOHN, founder of Universalism in the United States; born in Alton, Eng., Dec. 10, 1741; died in Boston, Mass., Sept. 3, 1815.

Murray Bay

capital of Charlevoix co., Quebec, Canada, on St. Lawrence river, 80 miles N. E. of Quebec, also called Malbaie. Is resort for visitors, being noted for its bathing and boating facilities. Industries include flour and timber mills, and is connected by steamer with Quebec. Pop. about 2,000.

Murrumbidgee

a large river of Australia, in New South Wales, rising in the great Dividing Range, and entering the Murray after a W. W. course of about 1,300 miles; chief tributary, the Lachlan.

Two miles S.

Musacee

an order of endogens, 17th century succeeded the Portuguese also as masters of Zanzibar and some places on the E. coast of Africa. The city has been for many years under British influence. Pop. est. about 45,000. places on the E. coast of Africa. The whether white or red. Among the fi

Muscatel

the name given to many sweet, strong French and Italian wines, MUSCATINE from Roussillon, and the Lunel from the Pyrenees, the Lacrymæ Christi of Naples, etc. Fine varieties are yielded by Syracuse, Sardinia, the Cape, Canary Islands, Corfu, Crete, and Cyprus.

Mushroom

or AGARIC, a genus of fungi, of the sub-order Hymenomycetes, having a hymenium of unequal plates or gills on the lower side of the pileus.

The species are very numerous. Many are poisonous, many are edible, and some are among the most esteemed fungi.

Muskegon Heights

a town in Muskegon co., Mich. It is on the Grand Rapids and Indiana railway, also on the Grand Rapids and Muskegon railway, the Grand Trunk and the Père Marquette. Pop. (1910) 1,690; (1920) 9,514.

Muskingum College

an educational institution in New Concord, O.; founded in 1837 under the auspices of the United Presbyterian Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 16; students, 475; volumes in the library, 9,000; endowment, $290,000; grounds and buildings valued at $300,000; income, $80,000. President, J. K. Montgomery.

Muslin

a bleached or unbleached thin cotton cloth, white, printed, or dyed. jaconet, lawn, saccharilla, harness, leno, MUSTARD GAS

Must

the juice of the grape, which Mexico. It is supposed

Mustang

the small wild horse of tangs are descendants of Spanish horses southwestern United States and northern which escaped from domestication in sed that the mus- Mexico, and became the parents of the immense herds which afterward occupied the plain and prairie regions of the N. cruciferous genus or sub-genus Sinapis.

Mustelide

a genus of carnivorous mammals, section Arctoidæ, forming a large group, widely diffused in the N. temperate regions. They have broad flattened skulls, low vermiform bodies, short legs, and feet fitted either for running, digging or swimming. The family may be naturally divided into three sub-families: Mustelinæ, Lutrinæ, and Mélinæ.

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