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MABBY, a kind of wine made from potatoes; It is faid to be ufed in Barbadoes. Boyle's Works abridg. vol. I. p. 71. MABOUJAS, the devil lizard, a fpecies of Ame- rican lizard, fo called from its uglinefs and difagreeableafpecl. It grows to fix or feven inches long, and to the thicknefs of a thumb, and is found in the trunks of rotten trees, and in marfhy places, where the fun beams feldom reach. It is all over of a gloffy black colour, and looks as if fmeared over with oil. Rochefort's Hift. Antill

MACAM, Indian apple, in natural hiftory, the name of a com- mon Eaft-Indian fruit ; it is of a round fhape, and about the fize of our common wild crabs which grow in the hedges. Inftead of the feveral (mail feeds which our crabs and apples contain, this fruit has only one hard kernel. It is of an acid tafte, and of a raw and not very agreeable fmell. The tree which produces this fruit, does not grow to any great height. It refembles the quince tree in its leaves, except that they have a yellowiih caft. Mem. Acad. Par. 1699.

MACAQUO, in zoology, the name of a large fpecies of mon- key, called by Mr. Ray cercopitbecus angolenfis major, the great Angola monkey. Its hair is all of the colour of that of a wolf, its noftrils are elate, its head like a bear's, and its buttocks are bald, on thefe he frequently fits upright. He always carries his tail bent into a fort of arch, his length from the head to the infertion of the tail is more than a foot ; his tail equals his body in length, his legs are confiderably long, and his body remarkably fat and bulky; his teeth are extremely white, and his penis very much refembles that of a man. It is an extremely lively animal, and continually plays a number of antic tricks ; its voice is Ihrill, and its only note hah ! hah ! Ray's Syn. Quad. p. 155. See Cercopithecus. They have another fpecies of this kind alfo about Angola, which may be called the black Macaquv. Its only colour is black, but on many parts of the back and fides, there is a greyifh caft among it. This has a tail of remarkable length, being more than two foot long. MACARON, the name of a fort of vermicelli, a pafte made of flour and water, and formed into the fhape of the barrel of a large quill, or the guts of fmall fowls. MACAW, or Macao, in zoology, the name of a large fpe- cies of parrot, diftinguifhed alfo by the length of its tail. - There are three different fpecies of this bird brought over into Europe, which not only differ in frze and other particulars, Suppl, Vol. II.

but alfo in colour. The firft is the largeft, and is finely va- riegated with blue and yellow. The fecond is fomewhat fmaller than this, and is principally red and yellow, and the third is red and blue. It is not uncommon alfo to fee the Macaw perfectly white, and it is to that particular colour we give the name of cockatoon ; though with forpe it is made the fynonymous name of all the Macaw tribe, ft MACERONE, in botany, a name given by feme authors to the great hippofellnum, or herb Alexanders. J. Bauhine t vol* 3. p. 126. MACH/ERION, a word ufed by chhurgical writers as the name of an inftrument of the nature of the incifion knife. It is alfo fometimes ufed to exprefs an incifion, and by the axu- fpices of old it was applied to fome peculiar part of die* liver of animals, from which they prefaged events. MACHERA Lapis, in natural hiftory, the name of a flone of a ferrugineous colour, frequent on mount Berecynthus in Phrygia. Plutarch, and many other grave writers, relate, that if any perfon found this ftone, and took it up at the time of the celebration of the feafts of Cybele, he inftantly was ' feized with madnefs. MACHLIS, in natural hiftory, a name ufed by Pliny and fome of the old authors, for the rein-deer. See the article Ran- gifer. MACKREL, the Englifti name for the fcombrus, or fcomber.

See the article Scomber. Horfe Mackrel. See the article Wo-RSK-Mackrel, MACROCELE. See the article Fulica. MACROCEPHALUS {Cycl.)—Macrofepbali, or Long beads, is a name given to a certain people who, according to the accounts of authors, were famous for the unfeemly length of their heads ; yet cuftom fo far habituated them to it, that inftead of looking on it as a deformity, they efteemed it a beauty, and as foon as the child was born, moulded and fafhioned its head in their hands to as great a length as poflible, and afterwards ufed all fuch rollers and bandages as might feem moft likely to determine its growing long. MACROCERCOS Ovis, in natural hiftory, the name of a fpecies of fheep fomewhat allied to the avis laticauda, or pla- tycercos in the largenefs of its tail ; but as that extends fo won- derfully in breadth, this does fo no lefs in length, being dc- fcribed to be three cubits long.

Authors who have treated of this animal obferve, that it is

wholly unable to manage this load of tail, (o that in the

A natural