Definition of moth

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Moth (n.) Any nocturnal lepidopterous insect, or any not included among the butterflies; as, the luna moth; Io moth; hawk moth..

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Nursing :: Nursing (a.) Supplying or taking nourishment from, or as from, the breast; as, a nursing mother; a nursing infant..
Matricide :: Matricide (n.) One who murders one's own mother.
Africander :: Africander (n.) One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a colored mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers..
Calliope :: Calliope (n.) The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses..
Mother :: Mother (v. i.) To become like, or full of, mother, or thick matter, as vinegar..
Foster :: Foster (v. t.) Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood..
Ancestor :: Ancestor (n.) One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father..
Mother :: Mother (n.) An old woman or matron.
Wainscot :: Wainscot (n.) Any one of numerous species of European moths of the family Leucanidae.
Motherwort :: Motherwort (n.) A labiate herb (Leonurus Cardiaca), of a bitter taste, used popularly in medicine; lion's tail..
Quadragesimals :: Quadragesimals (n. pl.) Offerings formerly made to the mother church of a diocese on Mid-Lent Sunday.
Smoulder :: Smoulder (v. i.) To exist in a state of suppressed or smothered activity; to burn inwardly; as, a smoldering feud..
Homer :: Homer (n.) See Hoemother.
Iridescence :: Iridescence (n.) Exhibition of colors like those of the rainbow; the quality or state of being iridescent; a prismatic play of color; as, the iridescence of mother-of-pearl..
Heterocera :: Heterocera (n. pl.) A division of Lepidoptera, including the moths, and hawk moths, which have the antennae variable in form..
Tinean :: Tinean (n.) Any species of Tinea, or of the family Tineidae, which includes numerous small moths, many of which are injurious to woolen and fur goods and to cultivated plants. Also used adjectively..
Eel-mother :: Eel-mother (n.) The eelpout.
Geometer :: Geometer (n.) Any species of geometrid moth; a geometrid.
Great :: Great (superl.) Older, younger, or more remote, by single generation; -- often used before grand to indicate one degree more remote in the direct line of descent; as, great-grandfather (a grandfather's or a grandmother's father), great-grandson, etc..
Son :: Son (n.) A male child; the male issue, or offspring, of a parent, father or mother..
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