'Mother Carey's goose' definitions:

Definition of 'Mother Carey's goose'

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  • Mother \Moth"er\ (m[u^][th]"[~e]r), n. [OE. moder, AS. m[=o]dor; akin to D. moeder, OS. m[=o]dar, G. mutter, OHG. muotar, Icel. m[=o][eth]ir, Dan. & Sw. moder, OSlav. mati, Russ. mate, Ir. & Gael. mathair, L. mater, Gr. mh`thr, Skr. m[=a]t[.r]; cf. Skr. m[=a] to measure. [root]268. Cf. Material, Matrix, Metropolis, Father.]
  • 1. A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. That which has produced or nurtured anything; source of birth or origin; generatrix. [1913 Webster]
  • Alas! poor country! . . . it can not Be called our mother, but our grave. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • I behold . . . the solitary majesty of Crete, mother of a religion, it is said, that lived two thousand years. --Landor. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. An old woman or matron. [Familiar] [1913 Webster]
  • 4. The female superior or head of a religious house, as an abbess, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Hysterical passion; hysteria. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Mother Carey's chicken (Zool.), any one of several species of small petrels, as the stormy petrel ({Procellaria pelagica}), and Leach's petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa), both of the Atlantic, and Oceanodroma furcata of the North Pacific.
  • Mother Carey's goose (Zool.), the giant fulmar of the Pacific. See Fulmar.
  • Mother's mark (Med.), a congenital mark upon the body; a birthmark; a naevus. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Mother Carey's goose'

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  • Glutton \Glut"ton\, n. [OE. glotoun, glotun, F. glouton, fr. L. gluto, glutto. See Glut.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Fig.: One who gluts himself. [1913 Webster]
  • Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy. --Granville. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Zool.) A carnivorous mammal (Gulo gulo formerly {Gulo luscus}), of the weasel family Mustelid[ae], about the size of a large badger; called also wolverine, wolverene and carcajou. It was formerly believed to be inordinately voracious, whence the name. It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia. [1913 Webster +PJC]
  • Glutton bird (Zool.), the giant fulmar ({Ossifraga gigantea}); -- called also Mother Carey's goose, and mollymawk. [1913 Webster]