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[Eng. mother (1), s.; -some.] Maternally anxious. "Excuse me if I seem over mother some and foolish about him."-Mrs. Trollope: Michael Armstrong , ch. xv. mother-wort, s. [Eng. mother ; -wort .] Botany : 1. The menthaceous genus Leonurus (q. v.); spec., Leonurus cardiac a. 2. Artemisia vulgar is . [MUGWORT.] mother-ý, a. [Eng. mother (3), s.; -y.] Consisting of mother; concreated like mother; partaking of the nature of mother. "Is it not enough to make the clearest liquid in the world both feculent and mothery ?" - Sterne: Tristram Shandy, vol. ii., ch. xix. moth-ỹ, adj. [Eng. moth; -y.] Full of moths; infested by moths. "His horse hip'd with an olde mothy saddle."-Shakesp.: Taming of the Shrew, iii. 2. mō-tif, s. [MOTIVE, 8.] 1. A short group of notes. [FIGURE, S., II. 6 (1).] 2. A subject proposed for development; a theme. Leit - motif: Music: Guiding theme; a short pa age of melody of marked character, illustrating certain personages, situations, or abstract ideas, in a story or drama, of which the music is the counterpart. When the situations recur, or the personage appears, or the personage or idea is referred to, the leit-motif is heard. *mō-tif-ic, a. [Lat. motus =motion; facio = to make.] Producing or causing motion.