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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mauther \Mau"ther\, noun [Cf. AS. m[ae]g? a maid.] [Also spelled {mawther}, {mother}.] A girl; esp., a great, awkward girl; a wench. [Prov. Eng.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mother \Moth"er\ (m[u^][th]"[~e]r), noun [OE. moder, AS. m[=o]dor; akin to D. moeder, OS. m[=o]dar, G. mutter, OHG. muotar, Icel. m[=o][eth]ir, Dan. & Sw. moder, OSlav. mati, Russ. mate, Ir. & Gael. mathair, L. mater, Gr. mh'thr, Skr. m[=a]t[.r]; cf. Skr. m[=a] to measure. [root]268. Cf. {Material}, {Matrix}, {Metropolis}, {Father}.]
1. A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.
2. That which has produced or nurtured anything; source of birth or origin; generatrix.
Alas! poor country! . . . it can not Be called our mother, but our grave. --Shak.
I behold . . . the solitary majesty of Crete, mother of a religion, it is said, that lived two thousand years. --Landor.
3. An old woman or matron. [Familiar]
4. The female superior or head of a religious house, as an abbess, etc.
5. Hysterical passion; hysteria. [Obs.] --Shak.
{Mother Carey's chicken} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of small petrels, as the stormy petrel ({Procellaria pelagica}), and Leach's petrel ({Oceanodroma leucorhoa}), both of the Atlantic, and {Oceanodroma furcata} of the North Pacific.
{Mother Carey's goose} (Zo["o]l.), the giant fulmar of the Pacific. See {Fulmar}.
{Mother's mark} (Med.), a congenital mark upon the body; a birthmark; a n[ae]vus.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mother \Moth"er\, adjective Received by birth or from ancestors; native, natural; as, mother language; also acting the part, or having the place of a mother; producing others; originating.
It is the mother falsehood from which all idolatry is derived. --T. Arnold.
{Mother cell} (Biol.), a cell which, by endogenous divisions, gives rise to other cells (daughter cells); a parent cell.
{Mother church}, the original church; a church from which other churches have sprung; as, the mother church of a diocese.
{Mother country}, the country of one's parents or ancestors; the country from which the people of a colony derive their origin.
{Mother liquor} (Chem.), the impure or complex residual solution which remains after the salts readily or regularly crystallizing have been removed.
{Mother queen}, the mother of a reigning sovereign; a queen mother.
{Mother tongue}. (a) A language from which another language has had its origin. (b) The language of one's native land; native tongue.
{Mother water}. See {Mother liquor} (above).
{Mother wit}, natural or native wit or intelligence.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mother \Moth"er\, verb (used without an object) To become like, or full of, mother, or thick matter, as vinegar.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
mother \moth"er\ (m[u^][th]"[~e]r), noun [Shortened from motherfucker as a euphemism.]
1. Same as {motherfucker}. [Vulgar slang] [PJC]
2. A person or thing with some exceptional quality, as great size or power; as, a grizzly stuck his nose in my tent and I grabbed my pistol and shot the mother. [Slang] [PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mother \Moth"er\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Mothered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mothering}.] To adopt as a son or daughter; to perform the duties of a mother to.
The queen, to have put lady Elizabeth besides the crown, would have mothered another body's child. --Howell.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mother \Moth"er\, noun [Akin to D. modder mud, G. moder mold, mud, Dan. mudder mud, and to E. mud. See {Mud}.] A film or membrane which is developed on the surface of fermented alcoholic liquids, such as vinegar, wine, etc., and acts as a means of conveying the oxygen of the air to the alcohol and other combustible principles of the liquid, thus leading to their oxidation.
Note: The film is composed of a mass of rapidly developing micro["o]rganisms of the genus {Mycoderma}, and in the {mother of vinegar} the micro["o]rganisms ({Mycoderma aceti}) composing the film are the active agents in the Conversion of the alcohol into vinegar. When thickened by growth, the film may settle to the bottom of the fluid. See {Acetous fermentation}, under {Fermentation}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
mother
noun
1: a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother); "the mother of three children" [syn: {female parent}] [ant: {father}, {father}]
2: a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar
3: a term of address for an elderly woman
4: a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation; "necessity is the mother of invention"
verb
1: care for like a mother; "She fusses over her husband" [syn: {fuss}, {overprotect}]
2: make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them" [syn: {beget}, {get}, {engender}, {father}, {sire}, {generate}, {bring forth}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
233 Moby Thesaurus words for "mother": SOB, agent, ancestorial, ancestors, ancestral, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, attend to, aunt, auntie, author, baby, baby-sit, bastard, bear, beget, begetter, beginner, birth, blood brother, breed, breed true, brethren, bring to birth, brother, bub, bubba, bud, buddy, bugger, builder, care for, catalyst, causer, chaperon, cherish, coddle, conceiver, conserve, constructor, copulate, cosset, country cousin, cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice removed, cradle, craftsman, creator, creep, crossbreed, cultivate, dam, daughter, designer, deviser, discoverer, dry-nurse, effector, engender, engenderer, engineer, executor, executrix, fart, father, fatherlike, fatherly, feed, first cousin, fondle, foster, foster brother, foster mother, founder, frater, generate, generator, genesis, genetrix, get, give birth to, grandfatherly, grandmotherly, grandnephew, grandniece, grandparental, granduncle, great-aunt, great-uncle, grower, half brother, heel, hood, hooligan, inaugurator, inbreed, indulge, industrialist, initiator, innate, inspirer, instigator, institutor, introducer, inventor, jerk, journeyman, keep watch over, kid brother, lavish care on, look after, look out for, look to, louse, ma, make love, maker, mam, mama, mamma, mammy, manufacturer, master, master craftsman, mater, materfamilias, maternal, maternal ancestor, matriarch, matronize, maw, meanie, mind, minister to, mom, mommy, motherlike, motherly, mover, multiply, mum, mummy, native, natural, nephew, niece, nourish, nuncle, nunks, nunky, nurse, nurture, nurturer, old, old lady, old woman, organizer, origin, originator, outbreed, pamper, parent, parental, past master, paternal, patriarchal, pill, planner, precursor, preserve, prime mover, primum mobile, procreate, producer, progenitrix, proliferate, propagate, protect, protege, provide for, raiser, rat, realizer, reproduce in kind, ride herd on, second cousin, see after, see to, serve, shaper, shelter, shepherd, shit, shithead, shitheel, sire, sis, sissy, sister, sister-german, sistern, smith, son, source, spoil, spoon-feed, stepbrother, stepmother, stepsister, stinkard, stinker, suckle, support, sustain, take care of, take charge of, tend, the old woman, turd, unc, uncle, uncs, uterine brother, wait on, watch, watch out for, watch over, wellspring, wet-nurse, wright
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
mother {parent}
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