† mothersomeadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Anxious like a mother.
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1840 F. Trollope Michael Armstrong II. iv. 96 I hope excuse, miss, if I seem over mothersome and foolish about him,..but he's a precious boy to me.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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adj.1840- to seal a person's eyes or ears
- to seal a person's lips
- to seal eyes or ears
- to seal hermetically
- to seal lips
- to seal one's fate
- to seal one's testimony with one's blood
- to seal under
- to sear up
- to search a place about
- to search about
- to search and sift
- to search etc high and low
- to search high and low
- to search hunt high and low
- to search out
- to search the bottom
- to search to the bottom
- to search up
- to season with the same liquor
- to seaward
- to seawards
- to sect it
- to secure an offing
- to secure arms