Definition of mother

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Mother (n.) A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child..

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Stabber :: Stabat Mater () A celebrated Latin hymn, beginning with these words, commemorating the sorrows of the mother of our Lord at the foot of the cross. It is read in the Mass of the Sorrows of the Virgin Mary, and is sung by Catholics when making the way of the cross (Via Crucis). See Station, 7 (c)..
Orphan :: Orphan (n.) A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living..
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..
Cognati :: Cognati (n. pl.) Relatives by the mother's side.
Lion''s Tail :: Lion's tail () A genus of labiate plants (Leonurus); -- so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's tail. L. Cardiaca is the common motherwort.
Metronymic :: Metronymic (a.) Derived from the name of one's mother, or other female ancestor; as, a metronymic name or appellation. -- A metronymic appellation..
Mulier :: Mulier (n.) A woman; a wife; a mother.
Pearl :: Pearl (a.) Of or pertaining to pearl or pearls; made of pearls, or of mother-of-pearl..
Moder :: Moder (n.) A mother.
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..
Half Blood :: Half blood (n.) A person whose father and mother are of different races; a half-breed.
Matron :: Matron (n.) A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners..
Dug :: Dug (n.) A teat, pap, or nipple; -- formerly that of a human mother, now that of a cow or other beast..
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children..
Mnemosyne :: Mnemosyne (n.) The goddess of memory and the mother of the Muses.
Homoiothermal :: Homoiothermal (a.) Maintaining a uniform temperature; haematothermal; homothermic; -- applied to warm-bodied animals, because they maintain a nearly uniform temperature in spite of the great variations in the surrounding air; in distinct from the cold-blooded (poikilothermal) animals, whose body temperature follows the variations in temperature of the surrounding medium..
Mugwort :: Mugwort (n.) A somewhat aromatic composite weed (Artemisia vulgaris), at one time used medicinally; -- called also motherwort..
Chartreuse :: Chartreuse (n.) A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France..
Mammy :: Mammy (n.) A child's name for mamma, mother..
Mammalia :: Mammalia (n. pl.) The highest class of Vertebrata. The young are nourished for a time by milk, or an analogous fluid, secreted by the mammary glands of the mother..
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