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The fiend-prince that urges to theft.

Five fiends have been in poor. Tom at once: of lust, as Obidicut; Hobbididance, prince of dumbness; Mahu, of stealing; Modo, of murder; Flibbertigibbet, of mopping and mowing.”—Shakespeare: King Lear, iv. 1.

 

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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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Mah-abadean Dynasty (The)
Mahabharata
Mahadi or Hakem
Mahâtmas
Mahdi (The)
Mahmoud of Ghizni
Mahmut
Mahomet or Mohammed
Mahoun
Mahound
Mahu
Maid Marian
Maid of Athens
Maid of Norway
Maid of Orleans
Maid of Perth (Fair)
Maid of Saragossa
Maiden
Maiden Assize (A)
Maiden King (The)
Maiden Lane (London)

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