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English Dictionary: mother wit	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for mother wit
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mother wit n sound practical judgment; "Common sense is not so common"; "he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples"; "fortunately she had the good sense to run away" Synonym(s): common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, sense, mother wit
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.