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English Dictionary: mother by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mother
n
  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"
    Synonym(s): mother, female parent
    Antonym(s): begetter, father, male parent
  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 term of address for a mother superior
  5. a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation; "necessity is the mother of invention"
v
  1. care for like a mother; "She fusses over her husband" [syn: mother, fuss, overprotect]
  2. make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them"
    Synonym(s): beget, get, engender, father, mother, sire, generate, bring forth
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mother \Moth"er\, n. [OE. moder, AS. m[d3]dor; akin to D.
      moeder, OS. m[d3]dar, G. mutter, OHG. muotar, Icel.
      m[d3][edh]ir, Dan. & Sw. moder, OSlav. mati, Russ. mate, Ir.
      & Gael. mathair, L. mater, Gr. mh`thr, Skr. m[be]t[rsdot];
      cf. Skr. m[be] to measure. [fb]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[94]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 {O. furcata} of the
            North Pacific.
  
      {Mother Carey's goose} (Zo[94]l.), the giant fulmar of the
            Pacific. See {Fulmar}.
  
      {Mother's mark} (Med.), a congenital mark upon the body; a
            n[91]vus.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mother \Moth"er\, n. [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[94]rganisms of the genus {Mycoderma}, and in the
               {mother of vinegar} the micro[94]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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mother \Moth"er\, a.
      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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mother \Moth"er\, v. i.
      To become like, or full of, mother, or thick matter, as
      vinegar.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mother \Moth"er\, v. t. [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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mauther \Mau"ther\, n. [Cf. AS. m[91]g[?] a maid.] [Also spelled
      {mawther}, {mother}.]
      A girl; esp., a great, awkward girl; a wench. [Prov. Eng.]

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   mother
  
      {parent}
  
  
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