Mother
- a. Received by birth or from ancestors; native, natural; as, mother language; also acting the part, or having the place of a mother; producing others; originating.
- n. A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.
- n. That which has produced or nurtured anything; source of birth or origin; generatrix.
- n. An old woman or matron.
- n. The female superior or head of a religious house, as an abbess, etc.
- n. Hysterical passion; hysteria.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.