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The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.

The basking or liver shark; -- called also homer. See Liver shark, under Liver.

Warm-blooded; homoiothermal; hæmatothermal.

Feeding upon ants; -- said of certain birds.

The treatment of disease by inhalations of compressed or rarefied air.

necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child.

Checkmate given when movement of the king is completely obstructed by his own men.

The quality or state of being smothery.

In a smothering manner.

Tending to smother; stifling.

The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.

Treatment of disease by heat, esp. by hot air.

Deprived of a mother; motherless.

A univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis. The shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks.

One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.

To cause to suffer agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture. He agonized his mother by his behavior. Thackeray.

y the same thing. -- All over, over the whole extent; thoroughly; wholly; as, she is her mother all over. [Colloq.] -- All the better, wholly the better; that is, better by the whole difference. -- All the same, nevertheless. "There they [certain phenomena] remain rooted all the same, whether we recognize them or not…

An abbes or spiritual mother.

expressing or implying analogy. When a country which has sent out colonies is termed the mother country, the expression is analogical. J. S. Mill.

One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.