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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
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"
         [syn: mother, female parent] [ant: 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" [syn: beget, get,
       engender, father, mother, sire, generate, bring
       forth]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mauther \Mau"ther\ (m[add]"[th][~e]r), n. [Cf. AS. maeg[thorn] a
   maid.] [Also spelled mawther, mother.]
   A girl; esp., a great, awkward girl; a wench. [Prov. Eng.]
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mother \Moth"er\ (m[u^][th]"[~e]r), n. [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.
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   2. That which has produced or nurtured anything; source of
      birth or origin; generatrix.
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            Alas! poor country! . . . it can not
            Be called our mother, but our grave.  --Shak.
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            I behold . . . the solitary majesty of Crete, mother
            of a religion, it is said, that lived two thousand
            years.                                --Landor.
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   3. An old woman or matron. [Familiar]
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   4. The female superior or head of a religious house, as an
      abbess, etc.
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   5. Hysterical passion; hysteria. [Obs.] --Shak.
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   Mother Carey's chicken (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), the giant fulmar of the
      Pacific. See Fulmar.

   Mother's mark (Med.), a congenital mark upon the body; a
      birthmark; a naevus.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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         It is the mother falsehood from which all idolatry is
         derived.                                 --T. Arnold.
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   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.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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   Note: The film is composed of a mass of rapidly developing
         microorganisms of the genus Mycoderma, and in the
         mother of vinegar the microorganisms (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.
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6. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mother \Moth"er\, v. i.
   To become like, or full of, mother, or thick matter, as
   vinegar.
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7. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
mother \moth"er\ (m[u^][th]"[~e]r), n. [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]

8. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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         The queen, to have put lady Elizabeth besides the
         crown, would have mothered another body's child.
                                                  --Howell.
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9. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)
parent
mother
predecessor

    The ancestor node in a tree that
   points to the current node (one of its child nodes).

   (2005-09-15)


10. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
MOTHER, domestic relations. A woman who has borne a child. 
     2. It is generally the duty of a mother to support her child, when she 
is left a widow, until he becomes of age, or is able to maintain himself; 8 
Watts, R. 366; and even after he becomes of age, if he be chargeable to the 
public, she may, perhaps, in all the states, be compelled, when she has 
sufficient means, to support him. But when the child has property sufficient 
for his support, she is not, even during his minority, obliged to maintain 
him. 1 Bro. C. C. 387; 2 Mass. R. 415; 4 Miss. R. 97. 
     3. When the father dies without leaving a testamentary guardian, at 
common law, the mother is entitled to be the guardian of the person and 
estate of the infant, until he arrives at fourteen years, when he is able to 
choose a guardian. Litt. sect. 123; 3 Co. 38; Co. Litt. 84 b; 2 Atk. 14; Com 
Dig. B, D, E; 7 Ves. 348. See 10 Mass. 135, 140; 15 Mass. 272; 4 Binn. 487; 
4 Stew. & Part. 123; 2 Mass. 415; Harper, R. 9; 1 Root, R. 487. 
     4. In Pennsylvania, the orphans' court will, in such case, appoint a 
guardian until the infant shall attain his fourteenth year. During the joint 
lives of the parents, (q.v.) the father (q.v.) is alone responsible for 
the support of the children; and has the only control over them, except when 
in special cases the mother is allowed to have possession of them. 1 P. A. 
Browne's Rep. 143; 5 Binn. R. 520; 2 Serg. & Rawle 174. Vide 4 Binn. R. 492, 
494. 
     5. The mother of a bastard child, as natural guardian, has a right to 
the custody and control of such child, and is bound to maintain it. 2 Mass. 
109; 12 Mass. 387, 433; 2 John. 375; 15 John. 208; 6 S. & R. 255; 1 Ashmead, 
55. 



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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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