a round hill or a bald promontory, as an adjective signifying bald, and often applied to hills and promontories, thus--the Mull or promontory of Cantyre and Galloway; Meldrum, in Aberdeenshire, and Meeldrum, in Ireland (the bald ridge); Melrose, _i.e._ _Maol-ros_ (the bald headland), Old Melrose having been situated on a peninsula formed by the Tweed; the Eildon Hills, near Melrose, corrupt. from _Moeldun_ (bald hill); the Island of Mull, one of the Hebrides; Mealfourvounie (the hill of the cold moor), in Inverness-shire; Glassmeal (gray hill), in Perth; Malvern (the bald hill of the alders, _gwernen_); Moel-y-don (the hill of the waves), in Anglesea; Moel-Aelir (the frosty hill); Muldonach (the hill of Donald), one of the Hebrides; Moel-Try-garn (the ridge of the three cairns); Moel-Eilio (the mount of construction); Moel-y-crio (the hill of shouting); Moel-ben-twrch (boar’s head hill), in Wales; Moel-cwm-Cerwyn (the bald dingle of the cauldron); Moelfre, corrupt. from _Moelbre_ (bald hill), in Wales. In Ireland this word often takes the form of _moyle_, as in Kilmoyle (bald church); Rathmoyle, Lismoyle, Dunmoyle (the bald or dilapidated fort); Mweelbane (the white hill); Meelgarrow (rough hill); Meelshane (John’s bald hill); Mweel-na-horna (the bald hill of the barley); Maulagh (abounding in hillocks); Mullaghmeen (smooth hillock); Mulboy (yellow hillock), etc.; Mullanagore and Mullanagower (the little summit of the goats). In Wales: Moel-hebog (hawk hill); Moel-eryn (eagle hill), in Wales. The Mool of Aswich and the Mool of Land, in Shetland. [Sidenote: MOIN, MOINE (Gadhelic), MON,] a moss or bog. in Ireland: Mona-braher, _i.e._ _Moin-nam-brathar_ (the bog of the friars); Monalour (of the lepers); Moneen (the little bog); Ballynamona (the town of the bog); Monard (high bog); Montiagh, for _Mointeach_ (the boggy place); Monabrock (the badger’s moss); Monroe (the red moss); _Mon_ is, however, sometimes used instead of _monadh_ (a rising ground in a moor), as in Co. Monaghan, _Muineachan_ (abounding in little hills); which country, however, according to the _Annals of the Four Masters_, was named from its chief town (the town of monks). In Scotland: Moin, a moorland district in Sutherlandshire; Monzie and Moonzie (the mossy land), in Fife and Perthshire; Montrose (the boggy promontory); _Mon_, again for _monadh_, in Monimail (bald hill), in Fife; Moncrieffe (the woody hill, _craobach_); Moness (the hill of the cascade, _eas_). [Sidenote: MÖNCH (Ger.), MONEC (A.S.), MONACH (Gadhelic), MYNACH (Cym.-Cel.),]