Morgan le Fay
Sister of Arthur and wife of King Urien of Gore. Arthur gave into her keeping the scabbard of his sword Excalibur, but she gave it to Sir Accolon whom she loved and had a forged scabbard made. Arthur, however, recovered the real sheath, but was again deceived by her. She figures as a Queen of the Land of Faerie and as such appears in French and Italian romance. It was she who, on one occasion, threw Excalibur into a lake. She usually presents her favourites with a ring and retains them by her side as does Venus in Tannhaüser. Her myth is a parallel of that of Eos and Tithonus and is probably derived from a sun and dawn myth.
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Morganatic
a term used with reference to a matrimonial alliance between a man of royal blood (or in Germany of high nobility) and a woman of inferior rank. The children of such a marriage are legitimate, but do not inherit the rank or possessions of their father. ginia and the county-seat of Monongalia
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Morgantown
a city of West Virco. It is about 100 miles S. of Pittsburgh, Pa., and is situated on the Monongahela river and on the Baltimore and Ohio, and the Morgantown and Kingwood railroads. It contains the West Virginia University and several important public buildings. Its chief industries are glass works, rks, furniture factories, lumbering, flour milling, and mining. Pop. (1910) 9,150; (1920) 12,127.
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Morgarten
a mountain slope on the E. margin of Lake Egeri , in the canton of Zug, Switzerland, the place where 1,400 men of the Swiss Forest Cantons Schwyz, Uri, and Unterwalden-won a great victory over 15,000 Austrians, Nov. 15, 1315. HENRY MORGENTHAU
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Morgenthau
HENRY, appointed in 1920 Ambassador to Mexico by President Wilson; born in Germany in 1856 and came to the United States when he was nine years old. After graduating from Columbia University he entered the law firm of Lachman, Morgenthau, and Goldsmith in 1879. After thirty years as Wilson in 1913 appointed Morgenthau a New York business man, President World War placed the business of the Ambassador to Constantinople . The Allied nations in Turkey in his hands. No less than nine nations, in recalling their representatives from Constantinople, made Morgenthau responsible for the the performance of this task he showed lives and property of their nationals. In great energy and tact. He returned to the United States in 1917 when the United States severed relations with Turkey. of persons found dead are exposed in or-
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Morinda
a genus of Cinchonaceæ, royac is a febrifuge. M. citrifolia is sometimes called the Indian mulberry; it is wild or cultivated in India and Ceylon. The typical variety, supposed to be wild in Malacca, furnishes various dyes, from reddish yellow to dark brown; the variety M. elliptica yields a scarlet dye, and M. angustifolia a good yellow. M. tinctoria is also a dye plant, and the green fruits are eaten by the Hindus in their curries.
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Moringa
the typical genus of the order Moringaceæ. The fruits are long, whip-like beans. The root of M. pterygosperma tastes like horseradish, and has a pungent odor. The leaves, flowers, and young seed are eaten by the natives of India in their curries. The seeds are the ben nuts which furnish the oil of ben. The plant is used by the Hindus as a stimulant and as a rubefacient. It is used by Indian calico printers. The bark yields a coarse fiber from which mats, paper, or cordage may be prepared. M. aptera, a native of India, long naturalized in the West Indies, also yields ben oil. The unripe fruits of M. concanensis are eaten by the natives of India in their curries.
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Morioka
the chief city and capital of the province of Iwate, Japan, located about 40 miles from the sea and in a rugged, mountainous part of the island of Hondo. The manufactures are chiefly yields abundant fruit. Pop. about 40,000. silk goods and kettles , while the he soil to the Moors who remained in Spain after
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Moriscos
the name usually given the taking of Granada in 1492; Mozarabes or Muzarabes , to the Christian Spaniards who lived in the parts of Spain under Moorish rule; Mudējares, to the Moors who submitted to the Christians in the earlier periods of the reconquest.
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Morlaix
a picturesque and flourishing port of France, in the Breton department of Finistère, on the Dossen. It has many quaint timbered houses, a huge railway viaduct 207 feet high, and manufactures of tobacco, paper, etc. Pop. about 15,000.
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Morley
a municipal borough of England in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It has important manufactories of woolen goods and mill machinery. In the neighborhood are coal mines and stone quarries. Pop. about 25,000.
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Morley
EDWARD WILLIAMS, American chemist, born in Newark, N. J., in 1838. Graduated from Williams College, 1860. Professor of Chemistry, Adelbert College, Western Reserve University, 1869. Professor of Chemistry, Cleveland Medical College, 1873-1888. He was the inventor of a superior apparatus for the analysis of gas. Publication: "Atomic Weight of Oxygen" (1893). President of American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1895, and of the American Chemical Society, 1899. Honorary President of the International Conference of Applied Chemistry, 1912.
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Morley (HENRY an English writer born)
HENRY, an English writer; born in London, England, Sept. 15, 1822. Educated at King's College; practiced medicine in Shropshire and teaching in Liverpool; and came to London as a journalist in 1851. From 1857 to 1865 he was an English lecturer at King's College; afterward Professor of English Language and Literature at University Hall. His works include "First Sketch of English Literature," "English Writers," "English Literature in the Reign of Victoria," etc. He died May 14, 1894.
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Mormon
the last of a pretended line of Hebrew prophets, and the pretended author of "The Book of Mormon," or Golden Bible, written on golden plates.
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Morning Star
in astronomy, the planet Venus when it is visible in the morning. Also a weapon used in ancient times. It consisted of a ball with spikes, united by a chain to a staff. Called also holy-water sprinkler.
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Morningside College
a coeducational institution in Sioux City, Ia.; founded in 1894 under the auspices of the Methodist Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 33; students, 788; president, F. E. Mossman, D. D.
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