ns (about B.C. 400). This code was translated by Gildas from
British into Latin, and by Alfred into English. The Mulmutine laws
obtained in this country till the Conquest.--Holinshed, _History of
England, etc._, iii. 1 (1577).

Mulmutius made our laws,
Who was the first of Britain which did put
His brows within a golden crown, and call'd
Himself a king.

Shakespeare, _Cymbeline_, act iii. sc. 1 (1605).

=Mulmutius= (_Dunwallo_), son of Cloten, king of Cornwall. "He excelled
all the kings of Britain in valor and gracefulness of person." In a
battle fought against the allied Welsh and Scotch armies, Mulmutius
tried the very scheme which Virgil (_AEneid_, ii.) says was attempted by
AEneas and his companions--that is, they dressed in the clothes and bore
the arms of the enemy slain, and thus disguised, committed very great
slaughter. Mulmutius, in his disguise, killed both the Cambrian and
Albanian kings, and put the allied army to thorough rout.--Geoffrey,
_British History_, ii. 17.

Mulmutius this land in such estate maintained
As his great Belsire Brute.

Drayton, _Polyolbion_, viii. (1612).

=Mulvaney= (_Terence_). Rollicking, epigrammatic, harum-scarum Irish
trooper, in the Indian service, whose adventures and sayings are
narrated in _Soldiers Three_, _The Courting of Dinah Shadd_, _etc._, by
Rudyard Kipling.

=Multon= (_Sir Thomas de_), of Gilsland. He is Lord de Vaux, a crusader,
and master of the horse to King Richard I.--Sir. W. Scott, _The
Talisman_ (time, Richard I.).

=Mumblazen= (_Master Michael_), the old herald, a dependant of Sir Hugh
Robsart.--Sir W. Scott, _Kenilworth_ (time, Elizabeth).

=Mumbo Jumbo=, an African bogie, hideous and malignant, the terror of
women and children.

=Mumps= (_Tib_), keeper of the "Mumps' Ha' ale-hous'," on the road to
Charlie's Hope farm.--Sir W. Scott, _Guy Mannering_ (time, George II.).

=Munchau'sen= (_The Baron_), a hero of most marvellous adventures.--Rudolf
Erich Raspe (a German, but storekeeper of the Dolcoath mines, in
Cornwall, 1792).

[Asterism] The name is said to refer to Hieronymus Karl Friedrich von
M[:u]nchhausen, a German officer in the Russian army, noted for his
marvellous stories (1720-1797). It is also supposed to be an implied
satire on the traveller's tales of Baron de Tott, in his _M['e]moires sur
les Turcs et Tartares_ (1784), and those of James Bruce, "The African
Travell