moth cicada (mothsika da)

A homopterous insect of the family Flatida; a flatid. moth-eat (môth'et), v. t. To eat or prey upon, as a moth eats a garment: only in the past participle. Ruine and neglect have so moa the a ten her [the town of Fettipore) as at this day she lies prostrate, and become the object of danger and misery. Sir T. Herbert , Travels in Africa, p. 61. mother-in-law The mother is a pestilent, wilful, troublesome sickne . Middle ton, Michael mas Term, iii. 1. 6t. The thickest plate, forming the body or principal part, of the astrolabe. The moder of thin Astrelabie is the thikkeste plate, perced with a large hole, that re eyvyth in hir wombe the thynne plates comp owned for diverse clymatz, and thi riet shapen in manere of a net or of a web be of a loppe. Chaucer , Astrolabe, i. 3. Artificial mother. See brooder. - Congregation of the Mother of God. See congregation. - Every mother's son, all, without exception. [Colloq.] - Mother Carey's chicken. See chicken1. - Mother Carey's goose. See goose. - Mother church. See church. Mother of eels, a lycodoid fish, Zoarces anguillaris, more commonly known as cel - pout.- Mother of God, a title given to the Virgin Mary. Mother of herrings, the allice. [Prov. Eng.]Mother of the maids, the chief of the ladies of honor at the English court. - Mother of the mawkins. See mal kin.- Mother's mark, a birth-mark; a strawberry-mark, mole, or other nævus.