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LEFT MOBGANATIC 307 MOBISCOS MORGANATIC, a term used with reference to a matrimonial alliance be- tween a man of royal blood (or in Ger- many of high nobility) and a woman of inferior rank. The children of such a marriage are legitimate, but do not in- herit the rank or possessions of their father. MORGANTOWN, a city of West Vir- ginia and the county-seat of Monongalia CO. It is about 100 miles S. of Pittsburgh, Pa., and is situated on the Monongahela river and on the Baltimore and Ohio, and the Morgantown and King^vood rail- roads. It contains the West Virginia University and several important public buildings. Its chief industries are glass works, furniture factories, lumbering, flour milling, and mining. Pop. (1910) 9,150; (1920) 12,127, MORGARTEN, a mountain slope on the E. margin of Lake Egeri, in the can- ton of Zug, Switzerland, the place where 1,400 men of the Swiss Forest Cantons — Schwyz, Uri, and Unterwalden — won a great victory over 15,000 Austrians, Nov. 15, 1315. HENRY MORGENTHAU MORGENTHAIT, HENRY, appointed in 1920 Ambassador to Mexico by Presi- dent Wilson ; ' born in Germany in 1856 and came to the United States when he was nine years old. After graduating from Columbia University he entered the law firm of Lachman, Morgenthau, and Goldsmith in 1879. After thirty years as a New York business man. President Wilson in 1913 appointed Morgenthau Ambassador to Constantinople. The World War placed the business of the Allied nations in Turkey in his hands. No less than nine nations, in recalling their representatives from Constantino- ple, made Morgenthau responsible for the lives and property of their nationals. In the performance of this task he showed great energy and tact. He returned to the United States in 1917 when the United States severed relations with Turkey. MORGUE, a place where the bodies of persons found dead are exposed in or- der that they may be recognized and claimed by their friends; a dead house. MORIAH(-r!-), the hill on which the temple of Jerusalem Was built. MORINDA, a genus of CinchoTiacese, family Gtiettardindse. The bark of M. royac is a febrifuge. M. citnfolia is sometimes called the Indian mulberry; it is wild or cultivated in India and Ceylon. The typical variety, supposed to be wild in Malacca, furnishes various dyes, from reddish yellow to dark brown; the va- riety M. elliptica yields a scarlet dye, and M. angustifolia a good yellow. M. tinc- toina is also a dye plant, and the green fruits are eaten by the Hindus in their curries. MORINGA, the typical genus of the order Moringacese. The fruits are long, whip-like beans. The root of Af. ptery- gosperma tastes like horseradish, and has a pungent odor. The leaves, flowers, and young seed are eaten by the natives of India in their curries. The seeds are the ben nuts which furnish the oil of ben. The plant is used by the Hindus as a stimulant and as a rubefacient. It is used by Indian calico printers. The bark yields a coarse fiber from which mats, paper, or cordage may be prepared. M. aptera, a native of India, long natural- ized in the West Indies, also yields ben oil. The unripe fruits of M. concanen- sis are eaten by the natives of India in their curries. MORIOKA. the chief city and capital of the province of Iwate, Japan, located about 40 miles from the sea and in a rugged, mountainous part of the island of Hondo. The manufactures are chiefly silk goods and kettles, while the soil yields abundant fruit. Pop. about 40,000. MORISCOS, the name usually given to the Moors who remained in Spain after the taking of Granada in 1492; Moza- rabes or Muzarabes, to the Christian