mother water (mut her water)

In chem. and phar., and in chemical industries, water which has contained di olved substances, and which remains after a part or the whole of these substances has crystallized or has been precipitated in an amorphous condition. Also called mother - liquor, mother - lye, and mothers. mother-wit (muTH'er-wit'), n. Native wit; common sense. For whatsoever mother - wit or arte Could worke, he put in proofe. Kath . Where did you study all this goodly speech? - Pet . It is extempore, from my mother -wit. Shak., T. of the S., ii. 1. 265. motherwort (muTH'er-wert), n. 1. A labiate plant, Leonurus Cardiac a , which grows in waste places. It has sometimes been used in amen- Add is on, Spectator. orrhea.-2t. The mugwort, Artemisia vulgar is , The motherly airs of my little daughters. 3. Like a mother. She was what is called a motherly woman, large and care ing, and really kind. Mrs. Oliphant , Poor Gentleman, xxx i. =Syn. Motherly, Maternal, Parental. The same distinction holds between the Anglo-Saxon word and the Latin ones in this list that is found in the words compared under brotherly and under fatherly. motherlyt (muTH'er-li), adv. [ In the manner of a mother. She casteth the rod into the fire, and colleth the child, giveth it an apple, and dandleth it most motherly. J. Bradford, Letters (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 87.