=Mœ´chus=, adultery personified; one of four sons of Caro (_fleshly lust_). His brothers were Pornei´us (_fornication_), Acath´arus and Asel´gês (_lasciviousness_). In the battle of Mansoul, Mœchus is slain by Agnei´a (_wifely chastity_), the spouse of Encra´tês (_temperance_) and sister of Parthen´ia (_maidenly chastity_). (Greek, _moichos_ “an adulterer.”)--Phineas Fletcher, _The Purple Island_, xi. (1633). =Mœli´ades= (4 _syl._). Under this name William Drummond signalized Henry, prince of Wales, eldest son of James I., in the monody entitled _Tears on the Death of Mœliadës_. The word is an anagram of _Milês a Deo_. The prince, in his masquerades and martial sports, used to call himself “Mœliadês of the Isles.” Mœliadês, bright day-star of the West. W. Drummond, _Tears on the Death of Mœliades_ (1612). The burden of the monody is: Mœliadês sweet courtly nymphs deplore, From Thulê to Hydaspês’ pearly shore. =Moffat= (_Mabel_), domestic of Edward Redgauntlet.--Sir W. Scott, _Redgauntlet_ (time, George III.). =Mogg Megone.= Indian sachem who, at the behest of a white girl, kills her betrayer, and brings his scalp to her. In the storm of anguished remorse awakened by the sight of the bloody trophy, the woman murders Megone in his sleep, and is henceforth banned by the church, driven by conscience, a miserable wanderer upon the earth.--John Greenleaf Whittier, _Mogg Megone_. =Moha´di= (_Mahommed_), the twelfth imaum, whom the Orientals believe is not dead, but is destined to return and combat Antichrist before the consummation of all things. ⁂ Prince Arthur, Merlin, Charlemagne, Barbarossa, Dom Sebastian, Charles V., Elijah Mansur, Desmond of Kilmallock, etc., are traditionally not dead, but only sleeping till the fullness of time, when each will awake and effect most wondrous restorations. =Mohair= (_The Men of_), the citizens of France. The men of mohair, as the citizens were called.--_Asylum Christi_, viii. =Moha´reb=, one of the evil spirits of Dom-Daniel, a cave “under the roots of the ocean.” It was given out that these spirits would be extirpated by one of the family of Hodei´rah (3 _syl._), so they leagued against the whole race. First, Okba was sent against the obnoxious race, and succeeeded[TN-15] in killing eight of them, Thalaba alone having escaped alive. Next, Abaldar was sent against Thalaba, but was killed by a simoom. Then Loba´ba was sent to cut him off, but perished in a whirlwind. Lastly, Mohareb undertook to destroy him. He assumed the guise of a warrior, and succeeded in alluring the youth to the very “mouth of hell;” but Thalaba, being alive to the deceit, flung Mohareb into the abyss.--Southey, _Thalaba, the Destroyer_, v. (1797). =Mohicans= (_Last of the_), Uncas, the Indian chief, son of Chingachook, and called “Deerfoot.”--J. F. Cooper, _The Last of the Mohicans_ (a novel, 1826). The word ought to be pronounced _Mo.hek´.kanz_, but is usually called _Mo.hĕ.kanz_.