More than one of these 7 encyclopedias carries each of the following subjects — but every one of them treats it in a sentence or two and then moves on. They are gathered here so the different accounts can sit side by side.
Mukden
Collier's New Encyclopedia: 2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) MOUKDEN, or FUNG- TIEN-FU, a town of China, capital of Manchuria and of the province of Leao- Tong, about 380 miles N. E. of Peking. It is doubly walled, being an old and long-time residence of the Imperial Clan or Manchu sovereigns before their conquest of China. Feb. 28 to March 13, 1905, the greatest battle of the Russo- Japanese War took place here. The city has a large trade. Pop. about 160,000.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: . See Manchuria 2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: BR 2026-07-22)
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Mulatto
Aiton's Encyclopedia: the child of parents, one of whom is a negro, the other a white person. The mulatto has a yellow complexion and frizzled hair and more nearly resembles the white race. The corresponding mixture of European and American Indian blood is designated as half-breed. A quadroon is the child of a white person and a mulatto, and is therefore three-fourths white. An octoroon is the child of a white person and a quadroon, and is seven-eighths white. No attempt was made in the last United States census to distinguish between those of full negro blood and those partly white, though it is believed that, as a matter of fact, 3,000,000 or one-third of the negro race now in America is of mixed blood. See Negro 2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: BR 2026-07-22)
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a person that is the offspring of parents of whom one is white and the other is a negro. The mulatto is of a dark color tinged with yellow, with frizzled or woolly hair, and resembles the European more than the African.
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Mull
Collier's New Encyclopedia: an island on the W. coast of Scotland, one of the Hebrides, belonging to Argyllshire, from which it is separated by the Sound of Mull and the Firth of Lorne; length 30 miles, breadth 29 miles. The island is for the most part mountainous, the highest point being Benmore, 3,185 feet above sea-level. The land in some parts is adapted for grazing, and there are numerous freshwater lochs. The only town is Tobermory.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: a soft, semi-transparent muslin. It is bleached a pure white or dyed in delicate colors. Swiss mull is finished with starching. Silk mull is a very thin, soft silk. Mull of all kinds is used for neckwear, millinery purposes, and for women's party dresses, etc. The name mull is an abbreviation of mullmull, from the Hindu malmal, the name of a thin bleached muslin imported from India.
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Musk
Aiton's Encyclopedia: a well known penetrating odor. It is considered disagreeable by most people, yet it is employed not a little in the toilet. Commercial musk is obtained from the male musk deer which inhabits the elevated mountain ranges of Central Asia. It is secreted in a small bag or gland about the size of a hen's egg. This the hunters cut off and send to market. The musk deer is about twenty inches high, and is of a dirty brown color. The odor of musk is common to many animals and plants, as is suggested by many names, musk-duck, musk-hyacinth, musk-melon, musk-ox, musk-rat, musk-rose, musk-shrew, musk-tree, and musk-weasel. See Civet Bagpipe. Musical instruments
Collier's New Encyclopedia: Mimulus moschatus, a gardenplant of musky musky odor from the region of the Columbia river. Also Erodium moschatum, musky stork's-bill, a rare plant, with pinnate leaves smelling of musk. Chemically it is an odoriferous, resinous substance obtained from the male MUSKDEER.
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Musk Ox
Aiton's Encyclopedia: a cud-chewing mammal, intermediate between the ox and the sheep, formerly found in all arctic countries. It is now confined to the northern part of British America . Both sexes are horned. It is somewhat larger than the Rocky Mountain sheep, to which it bears a strong resemblance in fleetness of foot and general hardiness. The body is draped with long, fine hair. The musk-ox takes its name from a secretion of the body. It travels and feeds in flocks, oftentimes taking long journeys in search of food.
Collier's New Encyclopedia: considered by some naturalists to be a connecting link between the sheep and the ox, whence its generic name. It is found in herds of from 10 to 30, in Arctic America N. of lat. 60°. It is covered with brown hair, nearly a yard in length, and a thick woolly under fur.
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Muskmelon
Aiton's Encyclopedia: a member of the gourd family allied to the cucumber. Muskmelons of fine flavor are raised from Italy and Egypt to Persia, but the summers of Germany and England are too cool to ripen them. In this country New Jersey is the banner muskmelon state. Entire farms are given to their culture for the markets of the large Atlantic cities. Two types are in general cultivation--the cantaloupe, with hard, furrowed rind and yellow flesh; and the nutmeg, with softer, netted rind and greenish-yellow flesh. Of late, muskmelons have been shipped long distances in crates. In 1904, 1,182 cars of crated cantaloupes were shipped eastward from Rocky Ford , Colorado. For the total American yield of muskmelons, see VEGETABLES. See also CANTALOUPE.
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a delicious melon of a musky fragrance, much liked in the United States. See MELON.
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Muslin
Aiton's Encyclopedia: a general name for plain-woven cotton cloth. The name is derived from the French mousseline, which, in turn, is thought to be from the name of the Turkish city Mosul. Like many other cotton goods, muslin originated in India. The India muslins, light, airy and fine, were introduced into Europe during the seventeenth century. Until the invention of the mule-jenny the cotton yarns spun in England were of too coarse a grade to produce satisfactory muslins. With the mule-jenny finer yarns were spun, and, by 1793, English muslins were produced equal to those imported from India. Until the latter half of the nineteenth century the word muslin denoted specifically a thin, light, semi-transparent fabric, such as is now designated by the word lawn. At present muslin, as commonly used, denotes a strong, close-woven fabric, put out both bleached and unbleached, used for underwear and a variety of domestic purposes. See Spinning ; Cotton
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a bleached or unbleached thin cotton cloth, white, printed, or dyed. Varieties are known as Swiss, buke, mull, in jaconet, lawn, saccharilla, harness, leno, pleted foundation, cambric, piano nainsook, seerhand, nd, cord, check, figured, long-cloth, tamboured, muslinet, organdie. Other very different styles of fabric are also indifferently medan. called muslins, and the term is used differently on the respective sides of the Atlantic, in England being confined exclusively to white goods.
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