Definition of moth

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Moth (n.) Anything which gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing..

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Grandmamma :: Grandmamma (n.) A grandmother.
Pearl :: Pearl (n.) Nacre, or mother-of-pearl..
Polyphemus :: Polyphemus (n.) A very large American moth (Telea polyphemus) belonging to the Silkworm family (Bombycidae). Its larva, which is very large, bright green, with silvery tubercles, and with oblique white stripes on the sides, feeds on the oak, chestnut, willow, cherry, apple, and other trees. It produces a large amount of strong silk. Called also American silkworm..
Beard :: Beard (n.) In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies..
Madreperl :: Madreperl (n.) Mother-of-pearl.
Great-grandfather :: Great-grandfather (n.) The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
Grandam :: Grandam (n.) An old woman; specifically, a grandmother..
Dote :: Dote (v. i.) To be excessively or foolishly fond; to love to excess; to be weakly affectionate; -- with on or upon; as, the mother dotes on her child..
Fertilizer :: Fertilizer (n.) One who fertilizes; the agent that carries the fertilizing principle, as a moth to an orchid..
Mothered :: Mothered (imp. & p. p.) of Mothe.
Smoor :: Smoor (v. t.) To suffocate or smother.
Phalaenid :: Phalaenid (n.) Any moth of the family Phalaenidae, of which the cankerworms are examples; a geometrid..
Smother :: Smother (v. t.) Hence, to repress the action of; to cover from public view; to suppress; to conceal; as, to smother one's displeasure..
Cabbiri :: Cabbiri (n. pl.) Certain deities originally worshiped with mystical rites by the Pelasgians in Lemnos and Samothrace and afterwards throughout Greece; -- also called sons of Hephaestus (or Vulcan), as being masters of the art of working metals..
Cutworm :: Cutworm (n.) A caterpillar which at night eats off young plants of cabbage, corn, etc., usually at the ground. Some kinds ascend fruit trees and eat off the flower buds. During the day, they conceal themselves in the earth. The common cutworms are the larvae of various species of Agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths..
Tortrix :: Tortrix (n.) Any one of numerous species of small moths of the family Tortricidae, the larvae of which usually roll up the leaves of plants on which they live; -- also called leaf roller..
Stepson :: Stepsister (n.) A daughter of one's stepfather or stepmother by a former marriage.
Overlay :: Overlay (v. t.) To smother with a close covering, or by lying upon..
Motherhood :: Motherhood (n.) The state of being a mother; the character or office of a mother.
Pentecostals :: Pentecostals (n. pl.) Offerings formerly made to the parish priest, or to the mother church, at Pentecost..
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