A body charged with the administration of the Russian National Church. Its members are appointed and removed by the Czar, and its head, the Procurator, is practically an autocrat in all matters of Church discipline. It has however no jurisdiction over matters of dogma.
Mother Ann.
The leader of the Shakers in Sussex, at the end of the eighteenth century. Her name was Ann Lee.
Mother of Presidents.
The State of Virginia is so called, as having furnished no less than six Presidents of the United States.
Mother of States.
A name given to the State of Virginia, either as the oldest colony, or as having had five States, namely, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and West Virginia, formed out of her original territories.
Moujik.
The Russian peasant.