First Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents’ tears, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their children’s cries unheard, that passed thro’ fire To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite Worshipped in Rabba. Milton, _Paradise Lost_, i. 392, etc. (1665). =Mo´ly= (Greek, _môlu_), mentioned in Homer’s _Odyssey_. An herb with a black root and white blossom, given by Hermês to Ulysses, to counteract the spells of Circê, (See HÆMONY.) ... that Mō´ly That Hermês once to wise Ulysses gave. Milton, _Comus_ (1634). The root was black, Milk-white the blossom; Môly is its name In heaven. Homer, _Odyssey_, x. (Cowper’s trans.). =Momus’s Lattice.= Momus, son of Nox, blamed Vulcan, because, in making the human form, he had not placed a window in the breast for the discerning of secret thoughts. Were Momus’ lattice in our breasts, My soul might brook to open it more widely Than theirs [i. e. _the nobles_]. Byron, _Werner_, iii., 1 (1822). =Mon= or =Mona=, Anglesia, the residence of the Druids. Suetonius Paulīnus, who had the command of Britain in the reign of Nero (from A.D. 59 to 62), attacked Mona, because it gave succor to the rebellious. The frantic inhabitants ran about with fire-brands, their long hair streaming to the wind, and the Druids invoked vengeance on the Roman army.--See Drayton, _Polyolbion_, viii. (1612). =Mon´aco= (_The king of_), noted because whatever he did was never right in the opinion of his people, especially in that of Rabagas, the demagogue: If he went out, he was “given to pleasure;” if he stayed at home, he was “given to idleness;” if he declared war, he was “wasteful of the public money;” if he did not, he was “pusillanimous;” if he ate, he was “self-indulgent;” if he abstained, he was “priest-ridden.”--M. Sardou, _Rabagas_ (1872). _Monaco._ _Proud as a Monegasque._ A French phrase. The tradition is that Charles Quint ennobled every one of the inhabitants of Monaco. =Monaldini= (_Signor_), rich, _bourgeois_ citizen of Rome, who purchases, fits up and lets to desirable tenants an old palace.--Mary Agnes Tincker, _Signor Monaldini’s Niece_ (1879). =Monarch of Mont Blanc=, Albert Smith; so-called, because for many years he amused a large London audience, night after night, by relating “his ascent of Mont Blanc” (1816-1860). =Monarque= (_Le Grand_), Louis XIV., of France (1638, 1643-1715). =Monastery= (_The_), a novel by Sir W. Scott (1820). _The Abbot_ appeared the same year. These two stories are tame and very defective in plot; but the character of Mary queen of Scots, in _The Abbot_, is a correct and beautiful historical portrait. The portrait of Queen Elizabeth is in _Kenilworth_. =Monçada= (_Matthias de_), a merchant, stern and relentless. He arrests his daughter the day after her confinement of a natural son.