=Mo´tar= (“_One doomed_ or _devoted to sacrifice_”). So Prince Assad was called, when he fell into the hands of the old fire-worshipper, and was destined by him to be sacrificed on the fiery mountain.--_Arabian Nights_ (“Amgiad and Assad”). =Moth=, page to Don Adriano de Arma´do, the fantastic Spaniard. He is cunning and versatile, facetious and playful.--Shakespeare, _Love’s Labor’s Lost_ (1594). _Moth_, one of the fairies.--Shakespeare, _Midsummer Night’s Dream_ (1592). =Moths and Candles.= The moths fell in love with the night-fly; and the night-fly, to get rid of their importunity, maliciously bade them to go and fetch fire for her adornment. The blind lovers flew to the first flame to obtain the love-token, and few escaped injury or death.--Kæmpfer, _Account of Japan_, vii. (1727). =Mother Ann=, Ann Lee, the “spiritual mother” of the Shakers (1731-1784). ⁂ Mother Ann is regarded by the Shakers as the female form, and Jesus as the male form, of the Messiah. =Mother Bunch=, a celebrated ale-wife in Dekker’s _Satiromaster_ (1602). ⁂ In 1604 was published _Pasquil’s Jests, mixed with Mother Bunch’s Merriments_. In 1760 was published, in two parts, _Mother Bunch’s Closet Newly Broke Open, etc._, by a “Lover of Mirth and Hater of Treason.” Mother Bunch’s _Fairy Tales_ are known in every nursery. =Mother Carey’s Chickens.= The fish-fags of Paris in the first Great Revolution were so called, because, like the “stormy petrel,” whenever they appeared in force in the streets of Paris, they always foreboded a tumult or political storm. =Mother Carey’s Goose=, the great black petrel or gigantic fulmar of the Pacific Ocean. =Mother Douglas=, a noted crimp, who lived at the north-east corner of Covent Garden. Her house was superbly furnished. She died 1761. ⁂ Foote introduces her in _The Minor_, as “Mrs. Cole” (1760); and Hogarth in his picture called “The March to Finchley.” =Mother Goose=, in French _Contes de Ma Mère l’Oye_, by Charles Perrault (1697). ⁂ There are ten stories in this book, seven of which are from the _Pentamerone_. _Mother Goose_, according to a new exploded story, was a native of Boston, and the author of the nursery rhymes that bear her name. She used to sing her rhymes to her grandson, and Thomas Fleet, her brother-in-law, published the first edition of these rhymes, entitled _Songs for the Nursery_, or _Mother Goose’s Melodies_, in 1719. ⁂ Dibdin wrote a pantomime entitled _Mother Goose_. =Mother Hubbard=, an old lady, whose whole time and attention were taken up by her dog, who was most willful; but the dame never lost her temper, or forgot her politeness. After running about all day to supply Master Doggie, The dame made a curtsey, the dog made a bow; The dame said, “Your servant!” the dog said, “Bow, wow!” _A Nursery Tale in Rhyme._