These 13 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Mule, Mullanite, Mullet.
in zoölogy, a term loosely used as synonymous with hybrid, more usually applied to the produce of a male ass with a mare, the mule proper (Equus asinus, variety gamma), and to the hinny (E. asinus, variety delta), the offspring of a stallion and a she-ass. The mule does not attain maturity as soon as the horse, but is useful a much longer period. In botany, a hybrid; a cross between two distinct species.
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a mineral consisting of lead sulph-antimonite. Occurs as slender, steel-gray prisms, with a metallic luster. Found in Idaho and Montana.
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in Europe, a salt water fish one to two feet long, with the general appearance of a slender perch or bass. It has fleshy lips and naturally lives by working over the mud at the bottom of the water from which it extracts small animals. The mullet was a favorite fish on the tables of Roman epicures. It was common enough, being raised in fish ponds. As high as $200 is said to have been paid by the Romans for an unusually large specimen. The ordinary weight is from six to seven pounds. There are, in all, about seventy world species of mullets. The common silver mullet of the Gulf States is about nine inches in length. It is a swift leaping fish, much in demand by pelicans, darters, and other fish-eating birds. Of American fish it is fourth in commercial value. It is the common fish of Southern markets. The fishermen of Florida work the sounds and brackish waters with seines, taking about 17,000,000 pounds a year.
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in ichthyology, the popular name of the genus Mullus and of the family Mugilidæ. The former are distinguished as red, and the latter as gray mullets.
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a vertical division between the lights of windows, screens, etc., in Gothic architecture. Mullions are rarely found earlier than the Early English style. The term is also applied to the division between the panels in wainscotting.
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Miss. See Craik ; Dinah Maria Mulock
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or MOOLTAN (möl-tän'), a city of India, in the Punjab, the chief city and capital of a district of same name; 4 miles from the Chenab; partly surrounded by a wall, and overlooked by a fortress of some strength occupied by European troops. The streets are mostly narrow and tortuous. It is one of the most ancient cities in India, and is the center of a large trade. Pop. about 100,000.
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in arithmetic and algebra, a number which contains another number an exact number of times without any remainder; thus, 20 is a multiple of 5. Common multiple of two or more numbers: In arithmetic, any number which contains each of these numbers an exact number of times without any remainder; as, 30 is a common multiple is 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.
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. See Arithmetic
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. See Embalming
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in archæology, the name given to animal remains chemically preserved from decay by various processes of embalming. By far the larger number of mummies that have been brought to light are human, for, according to the religious law of ancient Egypt, some process of mummification was universally obligatory; but it was also the custom to embalm cats, crocodiles, ichneumons, and other sacred animals. Recent researches have established the fact that the practice was due to the belief in the necessity of preserving the body inviolate in readines in readiness for the resurrection. The Egyptian practice of mummification had a wide range in time. It is fixed at from 3800 to 4000 b. c. The Metropolitan Museum in New York has a rich collection of mummies. The ancient Peruvians practiced a kind of mummification; and the Guanches, the aborigines of the Canaries, employed a method of embalming similar to that of the Egyptians, filling the hollow caused by the removal of the viscera with salt and an absorbent vegetable powder. In horticulture, a sort of wax used in grafting trees. In painting, a sort of brown To beat to bituminous pigment. a mummy, to thrash severely, to pound.
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mun-chaw'sen, Baron (1720-1797), a German soldier. He was a native of Hanover. As a soldier he was a harum-scarum, dare-devil sort of fellow, getting into no end of scrapes. He served in the Turkish campaign of 1737-9. He had a wonderful faculty of telling tales of personal adventure in which a lively imagination was allowed full play. Many of these stories he drew from ancient volumes. His Table Talk and Wondrous Tales were compiled by an acquaintance under the title of Baron Munchhausen's Narrative of his Marvelous Travels and Campaigns in Russia. His surprising adventures rival those of Swift's Gulliver. There is his tale of a night's lodging, for instance. Traveling through a snowy waste, he sought an inn far into the night. At last, in utter weariness, he tied his saddle horse to a stake, as he supposed. Then, wrapping his military cloak about him, he lay down on the snow to sleep. When he awoke in the morning he lay on the bare ground. The snow had melted. His faithful steed hung by the halter from the village steeple sixty feet above the earth. The Baron was equal to the emergency. Drawing his pistol he cut the halter strap with a well directed bullet. His horse slid to the ground uninjured and the veracious traveler continued his journey.
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a city and county-seat of Delaware co., Ind.; on the White river, and on the Lake Erie and Western; the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, the Chesapeake and Ohio of Indiana, the Fort Wayne, Cincinnati and Louisville, the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis and the Central Indiana railroads; 53 miles N. E. of Indianapolis. It contains the Muncie Normal In Normal Institute, high schools, hospital, public library, street railroad and electric light plants, several National banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. It has a pulp mill, a number of large glass works and automobile works, several iron and steel works. Pop. (1910) 24,005; (1920) 36,524.
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