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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.

secular habits and meager religious belief. I. Taylor. His education had been but meager. Motley.

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…

Wanting dignity of mind; low-minded; base; destitute of honor; spiritless; as, a mean motive. Can you imagine I so mean could prove, To save my life by changing of my love Dryden.

o wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran. Coleridge.

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

The art of the application of the laws of motion or force to construction. [Obs.]

Pertaining to, governed by, or in accordance with, mechanics, or the laws of motion; pertaining to the quantitative relations of force and matter, as distinguished from mental, vital, chemical, etc.; as, mechanical principles; a mechanical theory; mechanical deposits.

Mechanical operation or action. He acknowledges nothing besides matter and motion; so that all must be performed either by mechanism or accident. Bentley.

of sound. Hence: The condition upon which any event or action occurs; necessary means of motion or action; that through or by which anything is accomplished, conveyed, or carried on; specifically, in animal magnetism, spiritualism, etc., a person through whom the action of another being is said to be manifested and tr…

One of the larger measures of electro-motive force, amounting to one million volts.

One whose motive is to please men or the world, rather than God. Eph. vi. 6.

To be sunk, swallowed up, or lost. Native irresolution had merged in stronger motives. I. Taylor.

Transverse; as, the metaleptic motion of a muscle.

register exhibiting the state of the air and its temperature, weight, dryness, moisture, motion, etc.