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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.

Moth"er, 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.

It is the mother falsehood from which all
idolatry is derived.

Mother cell (Biol.), a cell which, by
endogenous divisions, gives rise to other cells (daughter cells); a
parent cell. -- Mother church, the
original church; a church from which other churches have sprung; as,
the mother church of a diocese.


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