To be or act as a mother to; treat in a motherly fashion.

noun. Dregs; lees.

noun. A stringy, mucilaginous substance which forms in vinegar during the acetous fermentation, and the presence of which sets up and hastens this kind of fermentation. It is produced by a plant, Mycoderma aceti, the germs of which, like those of the yeast-plant, exist in the atmosphere.

To become concreted, as the thick matter of liquors; become mothery.

noun. A woman in relation to her child; female parent: also used of female animals in relation to their offspring.

noun. That which has given birth to anything; source of anything; generatrix.

noun. A familiar appellation or term of address of an old or elderly woman.

noun. A title sometimes given to an abbess, and to other women holding an important position in religious or semi-religious institutions.

noun. A hysterical malady.

noun. The thickest plate, forming the body or principal part, of the astrolabe.

noun. Same as mauther.

transitive verb. To adopt as a son or daughter; to perform the duties of a mother to.

adjective. Received by birth or from ancestors; native, natural; ; also acting the part, or having the place of a mother; producing others; originating.

adjective. a cell which, by endogenous divisions, gives rise to other cells (daughter cells); a parent cell.

adjective. the original church; a church from which other churches have sprung.

adjective. the country of one's parents or ancestors; the country from which the people of a colony derive their origin.

adjective. the impure or complex residual solution which remains after the salts readily or regularly crystallizing have been removed.

adjective. the mother of a reigning sovereign; a queen mother.

adjective. The language of one's native land; native tongue.

adjective. See Mother liquor (above).

adjective. natural or native wit or intelligence.

noun. A film or membrane which is developed on the surface of fermented alcoholic liquids, such as vinegar, wine, etc., and acts as a means of conveying the oxygen of the air to the alcohol and other combustible principles of the liquid, thus leading to their oxidation.

intransitive verb. To become like, or full of, mother, or thick matter, as vinegar.

noun. A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.

noun. That which has produced or nurtured anything; source of birth or origin; generatrix.

noun. An old woman or matron.

noun. The female superior or head of a religious house, as an abbess, etc.

noun. Hysterical passion; hysteria.

noun. any one of several species of small petrels, as the stormy petrel (Procellaria pelagica), and Leach's petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa), both of the Atlantic, and Oceanodroma furcata of the North Pacific.

noun. the giant fulmar of the Pacific. See Fulmar.

noun. a congenital mark upon the body; a birthmark; a nævus.

noun. Same as motherfucker.

noun. A person or thing with some exceptional quality, as great size or power.

noun. Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.

noun. A cat that catches moths.

noun. motherfucker.

noun. A striking example.

noun. A (human) female who (a) parents a child or (b) gives birth to a baby. Sometimes used in reference to a pregnant female, possibly as a shortened form of mother-to-be (c).

noun. A female parent of an animal.

noun. A female ancestor.

noun. A source or origin, viewed affectionately.

noun. A title of respect for one's mother-in-law.

noun. Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community.

noun. Any person or entity which performs mothering.

noun. A film or membrane which is developed on the surface of fermented alcoholic liquids, such as vinegar, wine, etc., and acts as a means of conveying the oxygen of the air to the alcohol and other combustible principles of the liquid, thus leading to their oxidation.

verb. To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.

noun. a term of address for an elderly woman

verb. make children

verb. care for like a mother

noun. a term of address for a mother superior

"While Suzanna didn't move from her place, she wanted to stay at some distance that she might look her soul's full at her mother -- _her mother_!"

child  daughter  father  son  

artificial mother  congregation of the mother of god  every mother's son  mother carey's chicken  mother carey's goose  

mothered  mothering  

Family & Parenting  

Mother Superior  abbess  barm  care  create  

Brother  another  brother  nother  other  

accent  against  belle  bow  bridge  

SOB  agent  ancestorial  ancestors  ancestral  

motherfucker  

mothered  mothering  mothers