[Sidenote: MULLAGH (Gadhelic),] the top or summit, and sometimes applied to hills of a considerable height; _e.g._ Mullaghmeen (the smooth summit); Mulkeergh (the summit of the sheep, _caoirich_); Mullan (the little summit), in Ireland; probably the Island of Mull, in the Hebrides. [Sidenote: MURUS (Lat.), MAUER (Ger.), MURA (Sclav.),] a wall; _e.g._ Maurs (the walled town), in France; also Villa-de-Muro-cincto (the dwelling surrounded by walls); Morsain, in 879 _Murocinctus_ (surrounded by walls); Murviel (old walls), in Herault,--a place where the ruins of an ancient Gaulish city are found; Mauerhof (the enclosed court), in Germany; Trasmauer (the walled town on the R. Trasen), in Austria; Murany-var (the walled fortress), in Hungary; Muriel-de-la-fuente (the walled town of the fountain); Muriel-viejo (the old walled town); Murillo (the little walled town), in Spain; Murviedro (the old fortifications), called by the Romans _Muriveteres_, because they believed it to be on the site of the ancient Saguntum; Semur, in France, corrupt. from _Sinemurum_ (without walls). N [Sidenote: NAES (A.S.), NOES (Scand.), NES (Fr.),] a nose, cognate with the Lat. _nasus_, and in topography applied to a promontory; _e.g._ the Naze, in Norway, and Nash, in Monmouth; Nash-scaur (the promontory of the cliff), in Wales; Katznase (the cat’s headland); Blankenese (white cape), in Holstein; Foreness, Sheerness, Fifeness, Buchanness, Blackness, in England and Scotland; Roeness (red cape), Shetland; Vatternish (water cape), in Skye; Borrowstounness or Bo’ness, in West Lothian (the cape near Burward’s dwelling); Holderness (the woody promontory); Langness and Littleness, in Man; Dungeness (danger cape); Furness (the cape of the beacon-fire), the site of an ancient lighthouse in Lancashire; Saturnness (the southern cape), in Kirkcudbright; Shoeburyness, corrupt. from _Sceobirig_ (the cape of the sea-fortress); Skegness (the cape near the wood, _skogr_); Skipness (ship headland); Sviatanos, Sclav. (holy cape), in Russia; Caithness (the promontory of the Catti, a tribe). [Sidenote: NAGORE (Hindu _nagar_, Sansc. _nagura_),] a city; _e.g._ Barnagore for _Varaha-nagur_ (the city of the boar); Chandernagore (of the moon); Serenagur (of the sun). [Sidenote: NAGY (Hung.),] great; _e.g._ Nagy-Karoly (Charles’s great town); Nagy-Malton (St. Matthew’s great town); Nagy-Szent-Miklos (of St. Nicholas); Nagy-varad (great fortress); Nagy-Koros (the great town on the R. Köros). [Sidenote: NAHR (Semitic),] a river; _e.g._ Nahr-el-keber (the great river); Nahr-el-kelb or Lycus (the river of the dog or wolf), so named from a fancied resemblance of a rock near its mouth to the head of these animals; Nahr-Mukatta (the river of slaughter); Aram-Naharaim (the high lands of the two rivers, _i.e._ Mesopotamia); Nahar-Misraim (the river of Egypt, _i.e._ the Nile). [Sidenote: NANT (Cym.-Cel.),]