Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of mother is as below...

Uterine :: Uterine (a.) Born of the same mother, but by a different father..

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

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..

Great-grandfather :: Great-grandfather (n.) The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.

Mulier :: Mulier (n.) A woman; a wife; a mother.

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..

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

Hoemother :: Hoemother (n.) The basking or liver shark; -- called also homer. See Liver shark, under Liver..

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..

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..

Stepchild :: Stepchild (n.) A bereaved child; one who has lost father or mother.

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

Smouldry :: Smouldry (a.) Smoldering; suffocating; smothery.

Quickening :: Quickening (n.) The first motion of the fetus in the womb felt by the mother, occurring usually about the middle of the term of pregnancy. It has been popularly supposed to be due to the fetus becoming possessed of independent life..

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..

Godmother :: Godmother (n.) A woman who becomes sponsor for a child in baptism. See Godfathe.

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

Dug :: Dug (n.) A teat, pap, or nipple; -- formerly that of a human mother, now that of a cow or other beast..

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

Random Fonts

Most Popular