mohsite (mos it)

[Named after Fried rich Mohs, a German mineralogist (1773-1839).] Native titanic iron, or ilmenite. molhar = It. mollare, wet, moisten, L. as if * moll i are, for mollire, soften, When the day was therefore come, and that he saw that it rayned still worse then it did before, hee pitied the centinels so too moyled and wette. Hakluyt's Voyages, III. 354. (Richardson.) All they which were left were moiled with dirt and mire by reason of the deepne of the rotten way. Knolles, Hist. Turks. *moile, moile , mule , a mule: see mule .] A mule. And at the sayd Nouala a we toke moyles to stey us vp the mountayne. Sir R. Guylforde , Pylgrymage, p. 80. Endure this, and be turn'd into his moil To bear his sumptures. Chapman , Byron's Conspiracy, iii. 1.