an in His Humor_ (1598).

=Master of Sentences=, Pierre Lombard, author of a book called _Sentences_
(1100-1164).

=Masters= (_Doctor_), physician to Queen Elizabeth.--Sir W. Scott,
_Kenilworth_ (time, Elizabeth).

_Masters_ (The Four): (1) Michael O'Clerighe (_or_ Clery), who died
1643; (2) Cucoirighe O'Clerighe; (3) Maurice Conry; (4) Fearfeafa Conry;
authors of _Annals of Donegal_.

=Mat Mizen=, mate of H.M. ship _Tiger_. The type of a daring, reckless,
dare-devil English sailor. His adventures with Harry Clifton, in Delhi,
form the main incidents of Barrymore's melodrama, _El Hyder, Chief of
the Ghaut Mountains_.

=Mat-o'-the Mint=, a highwayman in Captain Macheath's gang. Peachum says,
"He is a promising, sturdy fellow, and diligent in his way. Somewhat too
bold and hasty; one that may raise good contributions on the public if
he does not cut himself short by murder."--Gay, _The Beggar's Opera_, i.
(1727).

=Matabrune= (3 _syl._), wife of King Pierron of the Strong Island, and
mother of Prince Oriant, one of the ancestors of Godfrey of
Bouillon.--_Mediaeval Romance of Chivalry._

=Mathematical Calculators.=

George Parkes Bidder, president of the Institution of Civil Engineers
(1800- ).

Jedediah Buxton, of Elmeton, in Derbyshire. He would tell how many
letters were in any one of his father's sermons, after hearing it from
the pulpit. He went to hear Garrick, in _Richard III._, and told how
many words each actor uttered (1705-1775).

Zerah Colburn, of Vermont, U. S., came to London in 1812, when he was
eight years old. The duke of Gloucester set him to multiply five figures
by three, and he gave the answer instantly. He would extract the cube
root of nine figures in a few seconds (1804- ).

Vito Mangiamele, son of a Sicilian shepherd. In 1839 MM. Arago, Lacroix,
Libri, and Sturm examined the boy, then 11 years old, and in half a
minute he told them the cube root of seven figures, and in three seconds
of nine figures (1818- ).

Alfragan, the Arabian astronomer (died 820).

=Mathilde= (2 _syl._), heroine of a tale so called by Sophie Ristaud, Dame
Cottin (1773-1807).

_Mathilde_ (3 _syl._), sister of Gessler, the tyrannical governor of
Switzerland, in love with Arnoldo, a Swiss, who saved her life when it
was imperilled by an avalanche. After the death of Gessler she married
the bold Swiss.--Rossini, _Guglielmo Tell_ (an opera, 1829).

=Mathis=, a German miller, greatly in debt. On