The general length of the common mullet (mugil) is from twelve to eighteen inches. When used immediately after being taken, the fish is excellent; carriage, even for a short distance, injures it. Dr. Blotch recommends oil and lemon-juice to be used with it at table. Vinegar, with parsley and melted butter, is better—“probatum est.”
This fish is sometimes preserved by salting; and from its spawn an inferior kind of caviar, called botargo, is prepared, by using the common process of curing and drying.—Wild Sports.
Multiparous, a. Bringing many at a birth.
Mum, s. Ale brewed with wheat.
Mungrel, s. Anything generated between different kinds; anything partaking of the qualities of different causes or parents.
Mungrel, a. Generated between different natures, baseborn, degenerate.
Munition, s. Ammunition; materials for war.
Muriates, s. Combinations of muriatic acid, with alkalies, earths, or metals.