Definition of mother

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Mother (n.) The female superior or head of a religious house, as an abbess, etc..

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Great :: Great (superl.) Older, younger, or more remote, by single generation; -- often used before grand to indicate one degree more remote in the direct line of descent; as, great-grandfather (a grandfather's or a grandmother's father), great-grandson, etc..
Pentecostals :: Pentecostals (n. pl.) Offerings formerly made to the parish priest, or to the mother church, at Pentecost..
Half Blood :: Half blood () The relation between persons born of the same father or of the same mother, but not of both; as, a brother or sister of the half blood. See Blood, n., 2 and 4..
Beldame :: Beldame (n.) Grandmother; -- corresponding to belsire.
Overlay :: Overlay (v. t.) To smother with a close covering, or by lying upon..
Son :: Son (n.) A male child; the male issue, or offspring, of a parent, father or mother..
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..
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..
Scomfish :: Scomfish (v. t. & i.) To suffocate or stifle; to smother.
Unmothered :: Unmothered () Deprived of a mother; motherless.
Mamma :: Mamma (n.) Mother; -- word of tenderness and familiarity.
Grandmother :: Grandmother (n.) The mother of one's father or mother.
Mothering :: Mothering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mothe.
Hellenist :: Hellenist (n.) One who affiliates with Greeks, or imitates Greek manners; esp., a person of Jewish extraction who used the Greek language as his mother tongue, as did the Jews of Asia Minor, Greece, Syria, and Egypt; distinguished from the Hebraists, or native Jews (Acts vi. 1)..
Smothered :: Smothered (imp. & p. p.) of Smothe.
Motherhood :: Motherhood (n.) The state of being a mother; the character or office of a mother.
Cognation :: Cognation (n.) That tie of consanguinity which exists between persons descended from the same mother; -- used in distinction from agnation.
Dam :: Dam (n.) A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother..
Mnemosyne :: Mnemosyne (n.) The goddess of memory and the mother of the Muses.
Pearl :: Pearl (n.) Nacre, or mother-of-pearl..
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