or Multiplier, in Arithmetic, the number by which any other is multiplied, or the number of times it is supposed to be taken.

MULTICICATUS FLOS, a luxuriant flower, whose petals are multiplied so as to exclude a part or the whole of the stamens.

MULTIPLYING glass, in Optics, a glass where-with objects appear incrased in number. See Optics.

MULTURE in Scots Law, a certain stipulated quantity of meal given as payment to the proprietor or tacksman of a mill for grinding the corn: and all corn ground on farms thirled to the mill is obliged to pay multure whether the corn be ground at that mill or elsewhere.