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A female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).

A female who has given birth to a baby; this person in relation to her child or children.

A pregnant female; mother-to-be; a female who gestates a baby.

A female who donates a fertilized egg or donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone. +

(figuratively) A female ancestor.

(figuratively) A source or origin.

Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.

(when followed by a surname) A title of respect for one's mother-in-law.

(dated) (A term of address for one's wife.)

(figuratively) Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community.

(figuratively) Any person or entity which performs mothering.

Dregs, lees; a stringy, mucilaginous or film- or membrane-like substance (consisting of a culture of acetobacters) which develops in fermenting alcoholic liquids (such as wine, or cider), and turns the alcohol into acetic acid with the help of oxygen from the air.

(rail transport) A locomotive which provides electrical power for a slug.

The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.

The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc.

(obsolete) Hysterical passion; hysteria; the uterus.

A disc produced from the electrotyped master, used in manufacturing phonograph records.

(slang) A person who is admired, respected, or looked up to within a particular fandom or community.

To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child.

To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.

To cause to contain (that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns it into vinegar).

(of an alcohol) To develop mother.

(euphemistic, mildly vulgar, slang) Motherfucker.

(euphemistic, colloquial) A striking example.