E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Mahu.
The fiend-prince that urges to theft.
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“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.
