in architecture, a certain measure or bigness, taken at pleasure, for regulating the proportions of columns, and the symmetry or disposition of the whole building. Architects generally choose the semi-diameter of the bottom of the column for their module, and this they subdivide into parts or minutes. See **Architecture**.

**MOHANGIA**, in botany, a genus of the octandra digynia clas. The calyx has 4 leaves, and the corolla 4 petals, and the capsule consists of one cell and 4 valves. There is but one species, a native of Switzerland.