mother

To be or act as a mother to; treat in a motherly fashion.

Dregs; lees.

A stringy, mucilaginous substance which forms in vinegar during the acetous fermentation, and the presence of which sets up and hastens this kind of fermentation. It is produced by a plant, Mycoderma aceti, the germs of which, like those of the yeast-plant, exist in the atmosphere.

To become concreted, as the thick matter of liquors; become mothery.

A woman in relation to her child; female parent: also used of female animals in relation to their offspring.

That which has given birth to anything; source of anything; generatrix.

A familiar appellation or term of address of an old or elderly woman.

A title sometimes given to an abbess, and to other women holding an important position in religious or semi-religious institutions.

A hysterical malady.

The thickest plate, forming the body or principal part, of the astrolabe.