rtin
Chuzzlewit_ (1844).

=Mouldy= (_Ralph_), "a good-limbed fellow, young, strong, and of good
friends." Ralph was pricked for a recruit in Sir John Falstaff's
regiment. He promised Bardolph forty shillings "to stand his friend."
Sir John being told this, sent Mouldy home, and when Justice Shallow
remonstrated, saying that Ralph "was the likeliest man of the lot,"
Falstaff replied, "Will you tell me, Master Shallow, how to choose a
man? Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big
assemblance of a man? Give me the spirit, Master Shallow."--Shakespeare,
2 _Henry IV._ act iii. sc. 2 (1598).

=Moullahs=, Mohammedan lawyers, from which are selected the judges.

=Mountain= (_The_), a name given in the French revolution to a faction
which sat on the benches most elevated in the Hall of Assembly. The
Girondins sat in the centre or lowest part of the hall, and were
nicknamed the "plain." The "mountain" for a long time was the dominant
part; it utterly overthrew the "plain" on August 31, 1793, but was in
turn overthrown at the fall of Robespierre (9 Thermidor ii. or July 27,
1794).

_Mountain_ (_The Old Man of the_), the imaum Hassan ben Sabbah el
Homari. The sheik Al Jebal was so called. He was the prince of the
Assassins.

[Asterism] In Rymer's _Foedera_ (vol. i.), Dr. Clarke, the editor, has
added two letters of this sheik; but the doctor must be responsible for
their genuineness.

=Mountain Brutus= (_The_), William Tell (1282-1350).

=Mountain of Flowers=, the site of the palace of Violenta, the mother
fairy who brought up the young princess afterwards metamorphosed into
"The White Cat."--Comtesse D'Aunoy, _Fairy Tales_ ("The White Cat,"
1682).

=Mountain of Miseries.= Jupiter gave permission for all men to bring their
grievances to a certain plain, and to exchange them with any others that
had been cast off. Fancy helped them; but though the heap was so
enormous, not one single _vice_ was to be found amongst the rubbish. Old
women threw away their wrinkles, and young ones their mole-spots; some
cast on the heap poverty; many their red noses and bad teeth; but no one
his crimes. Now came the choice. A galley-slave picked up gout, poverty
picked up sickness, care picked up pain, snub noses picked up long ones,
and so on. Soon all were bewailing the change they had made; and Jupiter
sent Patience to tell them they might, if they liked, resume their old
grievances again. Every one gladly ac