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Mother :: Mother (n.) Hysterical passion; hysteria.

Smoulder :: Smoulder (v. i.) To exist in a state of suppressed or smothered activity; to burn inwardly; as, a smoldering feud..

Stepbrother :: Step- () A prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, child, etc., to indicate that the person thus spoken of is not a blood relative, but is a relative by the marriage of a parent; as, a stepmother to X is the wife of the father of X, married by him after the death of the mother of X. See Stepchild, Stepdaughter, Stepson, etc..

Hoemother :: Hoemother (n.) The basking or liver shark; -- called also homer. See Liver shark, under Liver..

Half Blood :: Half blood () The relation between persons born of the same father or of the same mother, but not of both; as, a brother or sister of the half blood. See Blood, n., 2 and 4..

Zymogen :: Zymogen (n.) A mother substance, or antecedent, of an enzyme or chemical ferment; -- applied to such substances as, not being themselves actual ferments, may by internal changes give rise to a ferment..

Dam :: Dam (n.) A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother..

Slugworm :: Slugworm (n.) Any caterpillar which has the general appearance of a slug, as do those of certain moths belonging to Limacodes and allied genera, and those of certain sawflies..

Omphalomancy :: Omphalomancy (n.) Divination by means of a child's navel, to learn how many children the mother may have..

Granny :: Granny (n.) A grandmother; a grandam; familiarly, an old woman..

Motherhood :: Motherhood (n.) The state of being a mother; the character or office of a mother.

Inchworm :: Inchworm (n.) The larva of any geometrid moth. See Geometrid.

Mothering :: Mothering (n.) A rural custom in England, of visiting one's parents on Midlent Sunday, -- supposed to have been originally visiting the mother church to make offerings at the high altar..

Foremother :: Foremother (n.) A female ancestor.

Maia :: Maia (n.) A beautiful American bombycid moth (Eucronia maia).

Cat''s-tail :: Cat's-tail (n.) See Timothy, Cat-tail, Cirrus..

Heterocera :: Heterocera (n. pl.) A division of Lepidoptera, including the moths, and hawk moths, which have the antennae variable in form..

Uterine :: Uterine (a.) Born of the same mother, but by a different father..

Isis :: Isis (n.) The principal goddess worshiped by the Egyptians. She was regarded as the mother of Horus, and the sister and wife of Osiris. The Egyptians adored her as the goddess of fecundity, and as the great benefactress of their country, who instructed their ancestors in the art of agriculture..

Pterophore :: Pterophore (n.) Any moth of the genus Pterophorus and allied genera; a plume moth. See Plume moth, under Plume..

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