A woman who is fiercely protective of one or more people in her care.

Alternative spelling of mother-naked.

(fashion) A long, wide, loose gown with long sleeves and a high neck originally introduced by Christian missionaries as an adaption of 19th-century European fashion to Polynesia but subsequently inclusive of lighter and more colorful variations.

(colloquial) Empty

(pathology) A primary abscess responsible for secondary abscesses.

Alternative form of mother-hive

the principal or source hive of a colony of bees / (idiomatic) a location similarly serving as the source of a group of people

(chemistry) The solution remaining after a component has been removed by processes such as filtration, crystallization, etc..

A congenital mark upon the body; a naevus.

(mining) mineral coal