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Metronymic :: Metronymic (a.) Derived from the name of one's mother, or other female ancestor; as, a metronymic name or appellation. -- A metronymic appellation..

Madreperl :: Madreperl (n.) Mother-of-pearl.

Pearl :: Pearl (n.) A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Pearls which are round, or nearly round, and of fine luster, are highly esteemed

Overlay :: Overlay (v. t.) To smother with a close covering, or by lying upon..

Udderless :: Udderless (a.) Hence, without mother's milk; motherless; as, udderless lambs..

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

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..

Motherly :: Motherly (adv.) In a manner of a 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..

Beldame :: Beldame (n.) Grandmother; -- corresponding to belsire.

Homothermous :: Homothermous (a.) Warm-blooded; homoiothermal; haematothermal.

Suckle :: Sucking (a.) Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf..

Mothering :: Mothering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mothe.

Mammy :: Mammy (n.) A child's name for mamma, mother..

Cognate :: Cognate (a.) Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (Law), related on the mother's side..

Mameluco :: Mameluco (n.) A child born of a white father and Indian mother.

Smotheringly :: Smotheringly (adv.) In a smothering manner.

Grandfather :: Grandfather (n.) A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent.

Maternity :: Maternity (n.) The state of being a mother; the character or relation of a mother.

Myrmotherine :: Myrmotherine (a.) Feeding upon ants; -- said of certain birds.

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