mother

A female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).

I am visiting my mother today.

The lioness was a mother of four cubs.

A female who has given birth to a baby; this person in relation to her child or children.

My sister-in-law has just become a mother for the first time.

He had something of his mother in him.

A pregnant female; mother-to-be; a female who gestates a baby.

Nutrients and oxygen obtained by the mother are conveyed to the fetus.

The antiabortion iconography in the last decade featured the fetus but never the mother.

A female who donates a fertilized egg or donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone.

A female ancestor.

And Adã called his wyfe Heua⸝ becauſe ſhe was the mother of all that lyveth

To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.)

Q's sister, Debbie, had mothered two kids by the time she was twenty, with neither of the fathers in sight.

Zilpah, Leah's maid, mothered two sons for Jacob, Gad and Asher. Leah became pregnant once more and had two more sons, Issachar, and Zebulun, and a daughter, Dinah, thus Leah had seven children for Jacob.

To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.

She had seen fewer years than any of us, but she was of such superb Evehood and simplicity that she mothered us from the beginning.

To cause to contain mother (“that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns it into vinegar”).

mothered oil, mothered vinegar, mothered wine

To develop mother.

Iron rusted, paper cracked, cream soured and vinegar mothered.

Your lamp was always polished, wick trimmed, waiting; yet the bridegroom somehow never came. Summer dust settled in the vineyard. Grapes were harvested; your parents crushed and pressed them, but the wine mothered.

Motherfucker.

(Burn, baby, burn) Disco inferno / (Burn, baby, burn) Burn the mother down

Stick a votive candle in it and fire that mother up, right?

A striking example. (Appears as "mother of a(n) __".)

November, 1943 If ever, Cortney Anders promised himself, I get out of this mother of a thunderstorm there is a thing I will do if it is the last act of my life.

Some hot night there's gonna be one mother of a riot down here. Just wait." He'd been saying the same thing since 1958, five years of crying wolf.