ate Hill. Count Koningsmark
was in love with Elizabeth Percy (widow of the earl of Ogle), who was
contracted to Mr. Thynne; but before the wedding day arrived, the count,
with some hired ruffians, assassinated his rival in his carriage as it
was passing down Pall Mall.

[Asterism] Elizabeth Percy, within three months of the murder, married
the duke of Somerset.

=Moidart= (_John of_), captain of the clan Ronald, and a chief in the army
of Montrose.--Sir W. Scott, _Legend of Montrose_, (time, Charles I.).

=Moi'na= (2 _syl._), daughter of Reutha'mir, the principal man of
Balclu'tha, a town on the Clyde, belonging to the Britons. Moina married
Clessammor (the maternal uncle of Fingal), and died in childbirth of her
son Carthon, during the absence of her husband.--Ossian, _Carthon_.

=Mokanna=, the name given to Hakem ben Haschem, from a silver gauze veil
worn by him "to dim the lustre of his face," or rather to hide its
extreme ugliness. The history of this impostor is given by D'Herbelot,
_Biblioth[`e]que Orientale_ (1697).

[Asterism] Mokanna forms the first story of _Lalla Rookh_ ("The Veiled
Prophet of Khorassan"), by Thomas Moore (1817).

=Mokattam= (_Mount_), near Cairo (Egypt), noted for the massacre of the
Caliph Hakem B'amr-ellah, who was given out to be incarnate deity, and
the last prophet who communicated between God and man (eleventh
century). Here, also;[TN-16] fell in the same massacre his chief prophet,
and many of his followers. In consequence of this persecution, Durzi,
one of the "prophet's" chief apostles, led the survivors into Syria,
where they settled between the Libanus and Anti-Libanus, and took the
name of Durzis, corrupted into Druses.

As the khalif vanished erst,
In what seemed death to uninstructed eyes,
On red Mokattam's verge.

Robert Browning, _The Return of the Druses_, i.

=Molay= (_Jacques_), grand-master of the Knights Templar, as he was led to
the stake, summoned the pope (Clement V.), within forty days, and the
king (Philippe IV.), within forty weeks, to appear before the throne of
God to answer for his death. They both died within the stated periods.
(See SUMMONS TO DEATH.)

=Moli[`e]re= (_The Italian_), Charlo Goldoni (1707-1793).

_Moli[`e]re_ (_The Spanish_), Leandro Fernandez Moratin (1760-1828).

=Moll Cutpurse=, Mary Frith, who once attacked General Fairfax on
Hounslow Heath.

=Moll Flanders=, a woman of great beauty, born in