king accused him of treason for so doing, and sent him to the Bastille.
Being released by the Cardinal Richelieu, he was forgiven, and made
happy with the blessing of the king.--Lord Lytton, _Richelieu_ (1839).

_Mauprat_, the last of a fierce race of French robber nobles. His wild
nature is subdued into real nobility by his love for his beautiful
cousin.--George Sand, _Mauprat_ (1836).

=Maurice Beevor= (_Sir_), a miser, and (failing the children of the
countess) heir to the Arundel estates. The countess having two sons
(Arthur and Percy), Sir Maurice hired assassins to murder them; but his
plots were frustrated, and the miser went to his grave "a sordid,
spat-upon, revengeless, worthless, and rascally poor cousin."--Lord
Lytton, _The Sea-Captain_ (1839).

=Mause= (_Old_), mother of Cuddie Headrigg, and a covenanter.--Sir W.
Scott, _Old Mortality_ (time, Charles II.).

=Mauso'lus=, king of Caria, to whom his wife Art[)e]misia erected a
sepulchre which was one of the "Seven Wonders of the World" (B.C. 353).

The chief mausoleums besides this are those of Augustus; Hadrian (now
called the castle of St. Angelo) at Rome; Henri II., erected by
Catherine de Medicis; St. Peter the martyr, in the church of St.
Eustatius, by G. Balduccio; that to the memory of Louis XVI.; and the
tomb of Napoleon in Les Invalides, Paris. The one erected by Queen
Victoria to Prince Albert may also be mentioned.

=Mauthe Dog=, a black spectre spaniel that haunted the guard-room of
Peeltown in the Isle of Man. One day a drunken trooper entered the
guard-room while the dog was there, but lost his speech, and died within
three days.--Sir W. Scott, _Lay of the Last Minstrel_, vi. 26 (1805).

=Mauxalin'da=, in love with Moore, of Moore Hall; but the valiant
combatant of the dragon deserts her for Margery, daughter of Gubbins, of
Roth'ram Green.--H. Carey, _Dragon of Wantley_ (1696-1743).

=Mavortian=, a soldier or son of Mavors (_Mars_).

Hew dreadfull Mavortian the poor price of a dinner.--Richard Brome,
_Plays_ (1653).

=Mawworm=, a vulgar copy of Dr. Cantwell "the hypocrite." He is a most
gross abuser of his mother tongue, but believes he has a call to preach.
He tells old Lady Lambert that he has made several sermons already, but
"always does 'em extrumpery" because he could not write. He finds his
"religious vocation" more profitable than selling "grocery, tea, small
beer, charcoal, butter, brickdust, and other