mother

mother is a Noun

Definition:

[1] A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.

[2] That which has produced or nurtured anything; source of birth or origin; generatrix. Alas! poor country! ... it can not Be called our mother, but our grave. Shak. I behold ... the solitary majesty of Crete, mother of a religion, it is said, that lived two thousand years. Landor.

[3] An old woman or matron. [Familiar]

[4] The female superior or head of a religious house, as an abbess, etc.

[5] Hysterical passion; hysteria. [Obs.] Shak. Mother Carey`s chicken (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small petrels, as the stormy petrel (Procellaria pelagica), and Leach`s petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa), both of the Atlantic, and O. furcata of the North Pacific. -- Mother Carey`s goose (Zoöl.), the giant fulmar of the Pacific. See Fulmar. -- Mother`s mark (Med.), a congenital mark upon the body; a nævus.