mirk, dark. mister, trade, craft. mo, more. Moloch, a Phoenician god to whom human sacrifices were offered. Mona, Anglesey, an island off the coast of Wales, a traditional abode of the Druids. Montanus, Regio, his fly. John de Monte Regio made a wooden eagle that, when the emperor was entering Nuremberg, flew to meet him and hovered over his head. He also made an iron fly that, when at dinner, he was able to make start from under his hand and fly around the table. Monument, Sir Christopher Wren's monument in St. Paul's bears the inscription: Si monumentum quaeris, circumspice (If you seek his monument, look around you). monumentum aere perennius, monument more lasting than brass. |