Word Meanings - MOTHERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Consisting of, containing, or resembling, mother .
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- CONSISTENTLY
In a consistent manner. - 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. - CONTAINMENT
That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller. - 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 - CONSIST
1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col. - 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. - CONSISTORIAN
Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton. - MOTHERLESS
Destitute of a mother; having lost a mother; as, motherless children. - MOTHER-OF-THYME
An aromatic plant ; -- called also wild thyme. - CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We - MOTHERLINESS
The state or quality of being motherly. - CONSISTORY
The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. Hook. (more info) consistorium a place of assembly, the place where the emperor's council met, fr. consistere: cf. - MOTHER-IN-LAW
The mother of one's husband or wife. - CONTAINANT
A container. - RESEMBLINGLY
So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness. - MOTHER-NAKED
Naked as when born. - RESEMBLANT
Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower. - MOTHERHOOD
The state of being a mother; the character or office of a mother. - CONSISTENT
1. Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid. The humoral and consistent parts of the body. Harvey. 2. Having agreement with itself or with something else; having harmony among its parts; possesing unity; accordant; harmonious; congruous; - 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 - 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. - INCONSISTENTLY
In an inconsistent manner. - INCONSISTENCY
1. The quality or state of being inconsistent; discordance in respect to sentiment or action; such contrariety between two things that both can not exist or be true together; disagreement; incompatibility. There is a perfect inconsistency between - SELF-CONTAINED
Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine. - SMOTHERINESS
The quality or state of being smothery. - GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.