mœræ

from The Century Dictionary.

• In classical antiquity, the fates: Homer, in the Iliad, speaks of Mœra in general, and of several Mœræ; and, in the Odyssey, of the Clothes (‘spinners’). In later mythology three Fates appear, Clotho (‘the spinner’), Lachesis (‘the disposer of lots’), and Atropos (‘the inevitable’), who cuts the thread.