Chapter Mount Zion to Mucklewrath of M by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Mouse-Tower (The), on the Rhine. It was here that bishop Hatto was devoured by mice. (See Hatto, p. 474.)

Mauth is a toll or custom-house, and the mauth or toll-house for collecting duty on corn, being very unpopular, gave rise to the tradition.

Moussa, Moses.

Mowbray (Mr. John), lord of the manor of St. Ronan’s.

Clara Mowbray, sister of John Mowbray. She was betrothed to Frank Tyrrel, but married Valentine Bulmer.—Sir W. Scott: St. Ronan’s Well (time, George III.).

Mowbray (Sir Miles), a dogmatical, self-opinionated old man, who fancied he could read character, and had a natural instinct for doing the right thing; but he would have been much wiser if he had paid more heed to the proverb, “Mind your own business and not another’s.”

Frederick Mowbray, his eldest son, a young man of fine principles, and greatly liked. His “first love” was Clara Middleton, who, being poor, married the rich lord Ruby. His lordship soon died, leaving all his substance to his widow, who bestowed it with herself on Frederick Mowbray, her first and only love.

David Mowbray, younger brother of Frederick. He was in the navy, and was a fine open-hearted, frank, and honest British tar.

Lydia Mowbray, sister of Frederick and David, and the wife of Mr. Wrangle.—Cumberland: First Love (1796).

Mowcher (Miss), a benevolent little dwarf, patronized by Steerforth. She is full of humour and common vulgarity. Her chief occupation is that of hair-dressing.—Dickens: David Copperfield (1849).

Mowis, the bridegroom of snow, who woed and won a beautiful bride, but at dawn melted into the sun. The bride hunted for him night and day, but never saw him more.—American-Indian Legend.

Mowis, the bridegroom of snow, who won and wedded a maiden,
But when the morning came, arose and passed from the wigwam,
Fading and melting away, and dissolving into the sunshine,
Till she beheld him no more, tho’ she followed far into the forest.
   —Longfellow: Evangeline, ii. 4 (1849).

Mozaide, the Moor who befriended Vasco de Gama when he first landed on the Indian continent.

The Moor attends, Mozaide, whose zealous care
To Gama’s eyes revealed each treacherous snare.
   —Camoëns: Lusiad, ix. (1569).

Mozart, of Germany. The composer of Don Giovanni, Nozze di Figaro, Zauberflöte (operas), and the famous Requiem, etc. (1756–1792).

The English Mozart, sir Henry Bishop (1780–1855).

The Italian Mozart, Cherubini of Florence (1760–1842).

Much, the miller’s son, the bailiff or “acater” of Robin Hood. (See Midge, p. 704.)

Robyn stode in Bernysdale,
And lened hym to a tree;
And by hym stode Lytell Johan,
A good yeman was he;
And also dyde good Scathelock,
And Much the miller’s sone.
   —Ritson: Robin Hood Ballads, i. 1 (1594).

Much, the Miller’s Son, in the morris-dance. His feat was to bang, with an inflated bladder, the heads of gaping spectators. He represented the fool or jester.