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Grandaunt :: Grandaunt (n.) The aunt of one's father or mother.

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

Ave Mary :: Ave Mary () A salutation and prayer to the Virgin Mary, as mother of God; -- used in the Roman Catholic church..

Mother-of-thyme :: Mother-of-thyme (n.) An aromatic plant (Thymus Serphyllum); -- called also wild thyme.

Scomfish :: Scomfish (v. t. & i.) To suffocate or stifle; to smother.

Granduncle :: Granduncle (n.) A father's or mother's uncle.

Suck :: Suck (v. t.) To draw liquid from by the action of the mouth; as, to suck an orange; specifically, to draw milk from (the mother, the breast, etc.) with the mouth; as, the young of an animal sucks the mother, or dam; an infant sucks the breast..

Semele :: Semele (n.) A daughter of Cadmus, and by Zeus mother of Bacchus..

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..

Smother :: Smother (v. t.) To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick covering, as of ashes, of smoke, or the like; as, to smother a fire..

Suffocative :: Suffocation (n.) The act of suffocating, or the state of being suffocated; death caused by smothering or choking..

Smother :: Smother (v. i.) To be suffocated or stifled.

Burke :: Burke (v. t.) To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question..

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.

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.

Snug :: Snug (v. i.) To lie close; to snuggle; to snudge; -- often with up, or together; as, a child snugs up to its mother..

Colony :: Colony (n.) A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state; as, the British colonies in America..

Nestorian :: Nestorian (n.) An adherent of Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople to the fifth century, who has condemned as a heretic for maintaining that the divine and the human natures were not merged into one nature in Christ (who was God in man), and, hence, that it was improper to call Mary the mother of Christ; also, one of the sect established by the followers of Nestorius in Persia, india, and other Oriental countries, and still in existence. opposed to Eutychian..

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

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