Word Meanings - MOTHER-IN-LAW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The mother of one's husband or wife.

Related words: (words related to MOTHER-IN-LAW)

• MOTHER-OF-PEARL
  The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
• MOTHER'S DAY
  A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each person of his mother through the performance of some act of kindness, visit, tribute, or letter. The founder of the day is Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, who
• HUSBANDABLE
  Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy. Sherwood.
• MOTHERING
  A rural custom in England, of visiting one's parents on Midlent Sunday, -- supposed to have been originally visiting the mother church to make offerings at the high altar.
• HUSBANDLESS
  Destitute of a husband. Shak.
• MOTHERLESS
  Destitute of a mother; having lost a mother; as, motherless children.
• MOTHER-OF-THYME
  An aromatic plant ; -- called also wild thyme.
• MOTHERLINESS
  The state or quality of being motherly.
• HUSBANDRY
  1. Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift. There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out. Shak. 2. The business of a husbandman, comprehending the various branches of agriculture; farming. Husbandry supplieth all
• MOTHER-IN-LAW
  The mother of one's husband or wife.
• HUSBANDLY
  Frugal; thrifty. Tusser.
• MOTHER-NAKED
  Naked as when born.
• MOTHERHOOD
  The state of being a mother; the character or office of a mother.
• MOTHER
  modar, G. mutter, OHG. muotar, Icel. moedhir, Dan. & Sw. moder, OSlav. mati, Russ. mate, Ir. & Gael. mathair, L. mater, Gr. mh`thr, Skr. matrs; cf. Skr. ma to measure. *268. Cf. Material, Matrix, 1. A female parent; especially, one of the human
• HUSBANDAGE
  The commission or compensation allowed to a ship's husband.
• MOTHERWORT
  A labiate herb , of a bitter taste, used popularly in medicine; lion's tail. The mugwort. See Mugwort.
• HUSBAND
  the house or family, AS. h master of the house; h house + bunda, bonda, householder, husband; prob. fr. Icel. h house master, husband; h house + b dwelling, inhabiting, p.pr. of b to dwell; akin to AS. b, 1. The male head of a household; one who
• MOTHERED
  Thick, like mother; viscid. They oint their naked limbs with mothered oil. Dryden.
• MOTHERLY
  Of or pertaining to a mother; like, or suitable for, a mother; tender; maternal; as, motherly authority, love, or care. Hooker. Syn. -- Maternal; paternal. -- Motherly, Maternal. Motherly, being Anglo-Saxon, is the most familiar word of the two
• HUSBANDMAN
  1. The master of a family. Chaucer. 2. A farmer; a cultivator or tiller of the ground.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• EEL-MOTHER
  The eelpout.
• STEPMOTHER
  The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.
• SMOTHERINESS
  The quality or state of being smothery.
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• SMOTHERINGLY
  In a smothering manner.
• THERMOTHERAPY
  Treatment of disease by heat, esp. by hot air.