MOWELL. The old English name for mullet.
MOYAN. A species of early artillery.
MOYLE, To. To defile; an old term.
MUCK. See [Amok].
MUD-DRAGS. Implements and machines for clearing rivers and docks.
MUD OR BALLAST DREDGER. A vessel of 300 tons or more, fitted with steam-engine beams and metal buckets. By this powerful machine for cutting or scraping, loose gravel banks, &c., are removed from the entrances to docks and rivers.
MUD-FISH. The Lepidosiren, a very remarkable fish of the Gambia and other African rivers.
MUD-HOLE. An orifice with steam-tight doors in a marine engine, through which the deposit is removed from the boilers.
'MUDIAN, 'Mugian, or Bermudian. A boat special to the Bermuda Islands, usually decked, with the exception of a hatch; from two to twenty tons burden; it is short, of good beam, and great draft of water abaft, the stem and keel forming a curved line. It carries an immense quantity of iron, or even lead, ballast. Besides a long main and short jib-boom, it has a long, tapering, raking mast, stepped just over the fore-foot, generally unsupported by shrouds or stays; on it a jib-headed main-sail is hoisted to a height of twice, and sometimes three times, the length of the keel. This sail is triangular, stretched at its foot by a long boom. The only other sail is a small fore-sail or jib. They claim to be the fastest craft in the world for working to windward in smooth water, it being recorded of one that she made five miles dead to windward in the hour during a race; and though they may be laid over until they fill with water, they will not capsize.
MUD-LANDS. The extensive marshes left dry by the retiring tide in estuaries and river mouths.