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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.

Of or pertaining to the mesosternum.

The middle portion, or body, of the sternum.

Of or pertaining to the metasternum.

The most posterior element of the sternum; the ensiform process; xiphisternum.

Of or pertaining to the northeast; northeasterly.

a direction toward the northwest; coming from the northwest; northwesterly; as, a northwestern course.

Of or pertaining to the omosternum.

The anterior element of the sternum which projects forward from between the clavicles in many batrachians and is usually tipped with cartilage.

The part of the foot of the horse, and allied animals, between the fetlock and the coffin joint. See Illust. of Horse.

fatherly; showing the disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a father; as, paternal care. "Under paternal rule." Milton.

The theory or practice of paternal government. See Paternal government, under Paternal. London Times.

In a paternal manner.

ation of a father to his child; fathership; fatherhood; family headship; as, the divine paternity. The world, while it had scarcity of people, underwent no other dominion than paternity and eldership. Sir W. Raleigh.

A line with a row of hooks and bead Paternoster pump, Paternoster wheel, a chain pump; a noria. -- Paternoster while, the space of time required for repeating a paternoster. Udall.

etype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine. I will be the pattern of all patience. Shak.

See Chebacco, and 1st Pink.

Having a very narrow stern; -- said of a vessel.