, the AEgean isle.

Milton, _Paradise Lost_, 739, etc. (1665).

=Muley Bugentuf=, king of Morocco, a blood-and-thunder hero. He is the
chief character of a tragedy of the same name, by Thomas de la Fuenta.

In the first act, the king of Morocco, by way of recreation, shot a
hundred Moorish slaves with arrows; in the second, he beheaded
thirty Portuguese officers, prisoners of war; and in the third and
last act, Muley, mad with his wives, set fire with his own hand to
a detached palace, in which they were shut up, and reduced them all
to ashes.... This conflagration, accompanied with a thousand
shrieks, closed the piece in a very diverting manner.--Lesage, _Gil
Blas_, ii. 9 (1715).

=Mull Sack.= John Cottington, in the time of the Commonwealth, was so
called, from his favorite beverage. John Cottington emptied the pockets
of Oliver Cromwell when lord protector; stripped Charles II. of
[pounds]1500; and stole a watch and chain from Lady Fairfax.

[Asterism] Mull sack is spiced sherry negus.

=Mulla's Bard=, Spenser, author of the _Fa[:e]ry Queen_. The Mulla, a
tributary of the Blackwater, in Ireland, flowed close by the spot where
the poet's house stood. He was born and died in London (1553-1599).

... it irks me while I write,
As erst the bard of Mulla's silver stream,
Oft as he told of deadly dolorous plight
Sighed as he sung, and did in tears indite.

Shenstone, _The Schoolmistress_ (1758).

_Mulla._ Thomas Campbell, in his poem on the _Spanish Parrot_, calls the
island of Mull, "Mulla's Shore."

=Mullet= (_Professor_), the "most remarkable man" of North America. He
denounced his own father for voting on the wrong side at an election for
president, and wrote thunderbolts in the form of pamphlets, under the
signature of "Suturb" or Brutus reversed.--C. Dickens, _Martin
Chuzzlewit_ (1844).

=Mullins= (_Rev. Peter_). A minister of the gospel, who holds so hard to
the belief that the laborer is worthy of his hire, that he can see
nothing but the hire.

"How am I to know whether my services are acceptable unless every
year there is some voluntary testimonial concerning them? It seems
to me that I must have such a testimonial. I find myself looking
forward to it."--Josiah Gilbert Holland, _Arthur Bonnicastle_
(1873).

=Mul'mutine Laws=, the code of Dunvallo Mulmutius, sixteenth king of the
Brito