That which begins or originates something; the source or first cause.
The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.
The initial portion of some extended thing.
That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.
A source or origin.
A female parent, sometimes especially a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).
A female who has given birth to a baby; this person in relation to her child or children.
The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.
A striking example.
Dregs, lees; a stringy, mucilaginous or film- or membrane-like substance (consisting of acetobacters) which develops in fermenting alcoholic liquids (such as wine, or cider), and turns the alcohol into acetic acid with the help of oxygen from the air.
Motherfucker.
The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc.
A female who donates a fertilized egg or donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone.
A pregnant female, possibly as a shortened form of mother-to-be; a female who gestates a baby.
A locomotive which provides electrical power for a slug.
A disc produced from the electrotyped master, used in manufacturing phonograph records.
Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind. (See mother of all.)
A female ancestor.
Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community.
Any person or entity which performs mothering.
To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.
To develop mother.
To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.)
To cause to contain mother (“that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns it into vinegar”).