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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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..
Quartter :: Quartter (v. t.) To arrange (different coats of arms) upon one escutcheon, as when a man inherits from both father and mother the right to bear arms..
Mycoderma :: Mycoderma (n.) A genus of microorganisms of which the acetic ferment (Mycoderma aceti), which converts alcoholic fluids into vinegar, is a representative. Cf. Mother..
Cognati :: Cognati (n. pl.) Relatives by the mother's side.
Grandmother :: Grandmother (n.) The mother of one's father or mother.
Brine :: Brine (n.) Water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; pickle; hence, any strong saline solution; also, the saline residue or strong mother liquor resulting from the evaporation of natural or artificial waters..
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..
Brother German :: Brother german () A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only..
Caned :: Caned (a.) Filled with white flakes; mothery; -- said vinegar when containing mother.
Parricide :: Parricide (n.) Properly, one who murders one's own father; in a wider sense, one who murders one's father or mother or any ancestor..
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..
Semele :: Semele (n.) A daughter of Cadmus, and by Zeus mother of Bacchus..
Mother :: Mother (n.) An old woman or matron.
Cognate :: Cognate (a.) Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (Law), related on the mother's side..
Smothery :: Smothery (a.) Tending to smother; stifling.
Omphalomancy :: Omphalomancy (n.) Divination by means of a child's navel, to learn how many children the mother may have..
Cross-birth :: Cross-birth (n.) Any preternatural labor, in which the body of the child lies across the pelvis of the mother, so that the shoulder, arm, or trunk is the part first presented at the mouth of the uterus..
Mothery :: Mothery (a.) Consisting of, containing, or resembling, mother (in vinegar)..
Stephanion :: Stepfather (n.) The husband of one's mother by a subsequent marriage.
Smoor :: Smoor (v. t.) To suffocate or smother.
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