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Mother; -- word of tenderness and familiarity. [Written also mama.] Tell tales papa and mamma. Swift.

ourished for a time by milk, or an analogous fluid, secreted by the mammary glands of the mother.

A child's name for mamma, mother.

bees of the genus Osmia. They construct curious nests of hardened mud and sand. -- Mason moth (Zoöl.), any moth whose larva constructs an earthen cocoon under the soil. -- Mason shell (Zoöl.), a marine univalve shell of the genus Phorus; -- so called because it cements other shells and pebbles upon its own shell; a c…

Of or pertaining to a mother; becoming to a mother; motherly; as, maternal love; maternal tenderness.

In a motherly manner.

The state of being a mother; the character or relation of a mother.

The mother and ruler of a family or of her descendants; a ruler by maternal right.

The murder of a mother by her son or daughter.

A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners. Your wives, your daughters, Your matrons, and your maids. Shak. Grave from her cradle, insomuch that she was a matron before she was a mother. Fuller.

Of or pertaining to a matron; suitable to an elderly lady or to a married woman; grave; motherly.

anulated. Meal beetle (Zoöl.), the adult of the meal worm. See Meal worm, below. -- Meal moth (Zoöl.), a lepidopterous insect (Asopia farinalis), the larvæ of which feed upon meal, flour, etc. -- Meal worm (Zoöl.), the larva of a beetle (Tenebrio molitor) which infests granaries, bakehouses, etc., and is very injurio…

quid which passes can be measured. -- Measuring worm (Zoöl.), the larva of any geometrid moth. See Geometrid.

Derived from the name of one's mother, or other female ancestor; as, a metronymic name or appellation. -- A metronymic appellation.

The mother city; the chief city of a kingdom, state, or country. [Edinburgh] gray metropolis of the North. Tennyson.

A tribe of Lepidoptera, including a vast number of minute species, as the plume moth, clothes moth, etc.

Yielding milk. "Milky mothers." Roscommon.

A moth or lepidopterous insect; -- so called because the wings appear as if covered with white dust or powder, like a miller's clothes. Called also moth miller.

the larval state, excavate galleries in the parenchyma of leaves. They are mostly minute moths and dipterous flies.

The goddess of memory and the mother of the Muses.