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Moth"en (?), a. Full of
moths. [Obs.] Fulke.

Moth"er (?), n. [OE. moder, AS.
mōdor; akin to D. moeder, OS. mōdar,
G. mutter, OHG. muotar, Icel. mōðir,
Dan. & Sw. moder, OSlav. mati, Russ. mate, Ir. &
Gael. mathair, L. mater, Gr. mh`thr, Skr.
māt&rsdot;; cf. Skr. mā to measure.
√268. Cf. Material, Matrix, Metropolis,
Father.] 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.

I behold . . . the solitary majesty of Crete,
mother of a religion, it is said, that lived two thousand
years.

3. An old woman or matron.
[Familiar]

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