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Captain Hill and Lord Mohun made a dastardly attack on an actor named Mountford, on his way to Mrs. Bracegirdle’s house in Howard Street. Hill was jealous of the actor, and induced the “noble lord” to join him in this “valiant quarrel.” Mountford died next day. Hill fled, and was never heard of more; Mohun was tried for his life, but acquitted. (See Issachar.) (Howell: State Trials, vol. xii. p. 947.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Modred
Mods
Modus Operandi (Latin)
Modus Vivendi (A)
Mofussil (East Indies)
Mogul Cards
Mohadi [Mohammed]
Mohair
Mohakabad (Al)
Mohocks
Mohun
Mohyronus (Edricius)
Moiré Antique (French)
Mokanna
Molière
Molinism
Moll (Kentish)
Moll Cutpurse
Moll Flanders
Moll Thomson’s Mark
Molly

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