Definition of mother

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Mother (n.) That which has produced or nurtured anything; source of birth or origin; generatrix.

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Suffocating :: Suffocate (v. i.) To become choked, stifled, or smothered..
Orphan :: Orphan (n.) A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living..
Visitation :: Visitation (n.) A festival in honor of the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elisabeth, mother of John the Baptist, celebrated on the second of July..
Great-grandfather :: Great-grandfather (n.) The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
Suffocate :: Suffocate (v. t.) To choke or kill by stopping respiration; to stifle; to smother.
Grandmotherly :: Grandmotherly (a.) Like a grandmother in age or manner; kind; indulgent.
Dam :: Dam (n.) A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother..
Cognation :: Cognation (n.) That tie of consanguinity which exists between persons descended from the same mother; -- used in distinction from agnation.
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..
Mother-of-pearl :: Mother-of-pearl (n.) The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl..
Granny :: Granny (n.) A grandmother; a grandam; familiarly, an old woman..
Smudge :: Smudge (v. t.) To stifle or smother with smoke; to smoke by means of a smudge.
Uncle :: Uncle (n.) The brother of one's father or mother; also applied to an aunt's husband; -- the correlative of aunt in sex, and of nephew and niece in relationship..
Smotheringly :: Smotheringly (adv.) In a smothering manner.
Foster :: Foster (v. t.) Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood..
Mulier :: Mulier (n.) A woman; a wife; a mother.
Calliope :: Calliope (n.) The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses..
Hoemother :: Hoemother (n.) The basking or liver shark; -- called also homer. See Liver shark, under Liver..
Motherly :: Motherly (adv.) In a manner of a mother.
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