The queen afterward keeps incubating and guarding her eggs like a mother hen, taking a sip from time to time from the rather liquid honey in her honey pots.

* Courteney Cox portrays Monica Geller, the mother hen of the group and a chef, known for her perfectionist, bossy and competitive nature.

Roosters will occasionally make a patterned series of clucks to attract hens to a source of food, the same way a mother hen does for her chicks.

In 1972, Shakur was the subject of a nationwide manhunt after the FBI alleged that she was the " revolutionary mother hen " of a Black Liberation Army cell that had conducted a " series of cold-blooded murders of New York City police officers ", including the " execution style murders " of New York Police Officers Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones on May 21, 1971 and Gregory Foster and Rocco Laurie on January 28, 1972.

Robert Daley, Deputy Commissioner of the New York City Police, for example, described Shakur as " the final wanted fugitive, the soul of the gang, the mother hen who kept them together, kept them moving, kept them shooting ".

Sheila is arguably a vital part of Bob's maintaining his independence from his father, as she initially took something of a " mother hen " attitude with Bob.

A Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ) painting of a mother hen and chicks, with a written eulogy at the top inscribed by the Chenghua Emperor describing his fondness for this work.

The chick hatched inside and emerged from its mother without the shell, leading to internal wounds that killed the mother hen.

* Mabel, the mother hen of the factory and Sid's secretary.

" and quite possibly the most important of them all, Ohno resembles a small, female child in size and demeanor with the " mother hen " personality of a bossy little sister that can often get on the nerves of Rob and the others.

The " hen " is the main plant, and the " chicks " are the offspring, which start as tiny buds on the main plant and soon sprout their own roots, taking up residence close to the mother plant.

They took care of their students like a new mother hen would care for her newly hatched chicks ; always looking out for their health and welfare.

" The mother hen was cooked ; the chick avoided the pot ", Fotheringham said.

However, young ducklings rely on their mother for a supply of preen oil to make them waterproof, and a chicken hen does not make as much preen oil as a female duck ; and an incubator makes none.

Sarah Loughton ran towards her mother who had been moving between tables.

As they grew older, Muriel and her two sisters helped their mother with cleaning, cooking, making beds and waiting on tables.

Mr. Corrado buys Julie a ginger ale, Hannah takes a picture of it and they leave but not before Julie spots her mother dancing on one of the tables.

She was realistic about the unpredictability of an acting career and, since she had promised her mother she would never wait tables when she left for New York, she hadn't given up her part-time work as a bookkeeper and was " learning computers " as something to fall back on.

* Metropolis can refer to the mother city of a colony, the see of a metropolitan archbishop or a Metropolitan area — a major urban population centre.

His father, Joseph Alessi, Sr., was a professional trumpet player and his mother sang in the Metropolitan Opera chorus.

Westminster Cathedral in London is the mother church of the Catholic community in England and Wales and the Metropolitan Church and Cathedral of the Archbishop of Westminster.

Davies went to Gowerton Comprehensive School ( where his mother was a secretary ), and later achieved a BA ( Hons ) at Crewe and Alsager College, and an MSc from Swansea Metropolitan University.

According to Roger Butterfield, his mother made a practice of dressing the boy in a velvet suit and sending him to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to copy masterpieces.

Her mother, Saturnina " Nina " ( née Zadorowski ), was a theatrical wardrobe supervisor for Broadway productions, the Metropolitan Opera, and the New York City Opera, and her father, Alphonse Schipani, a violinist.

Philippa de Menil's mother, Dominique de Menil, stepped in, ousted Friedrich and installed Ashton Hawkins, an executive vice president at the Metropolitan Museum, as Dia's chairman.

* Metropolitan bishop or archbishop, leader of an ecclesiastical " mother see "

His father was a past president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and his mother was a hymn writer, credited with over 500 hymns, most notably " Blessed Assurance " with Fanny Crosby.

Films with débutante themes include Metropolitan, Whit Stillman's début feature film, a comedy of manners set during the deb season in Manhattan, and What a Girl Wants, a 2003 film in which Amanda Bynes plays an American teen whose estranged father is a British Lord, and who is presented at a coming out party after being reunited with her mother.

Her mother hoped she would follow Marian Anderson, but Odetta doubted a large black girl would ever perform at the Metropolitan Opera.

Loosely based on real-life events Stillman had experienced while living in Washington, D. C., with his divorced mother during the week of Christmas break 1970 during his first year at Harvard, Metropolitan tells the story of the alienated Princetonian Tom Townsend's introduction to the " Sally Fowler Rat Pack " ( SFRP ), a small group of preppy, Upper East Side Manhattanites making the rounds at debutante balls during Christmas break of their first year in college.

His mother, Mary, taught chemistry at Curie Metropolitan High School in Chicago.

The archdiocese is led by the Archbishop of Westminster, who serves as pastor of the mother church, Westminster Cathedral, and Metropolitan of the Metropolitan Province of Westminster.

She was also a benefactor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the YWCA, New York Hospital, the Museum of Modern Art ( of which her mother was a founder, and in whose affairs her brothers Nelson and David played a major role ); the New York Zoological Society ( which was a major interest of her brother Laurance ); and the Asia Society, which was established by another brother, John D. Rockefeller III.

His father worked for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co .; his mother as an art teacher in New York.

The Metropolitan Cathedral Church and Basilica of Saint Chad is the mother church of the Archdiocese of Birmingham and province of the Catholic Church in Great Britain and is dedicated to Saint Chad of Mercia.

Perry's mother became the first heterosexual member of the Metropolitan Community Church and supported her son until she died in 1993.

According to the Vita Ansgarii (" Life of Ansgar "), when the little boy learned in a vision that his mother was in the company of Saint Mary, his careless attitude toward spiritual matters changed to seriousness (" Life of Ansgar ", 1 ).

Fredrika misses her mother, but Desiree continually puts off going to see her, preferring, somewhat ironically, " The Glamorous Life ".

* Cassiopeia, the mother of Octavian in The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing

She was the wife of Sir Michael Redgrave and mother of Vanessa, Lynn and Corin, and published her autobiography, Life Among the Redgraves, in 1988.

Eliot spent the next two years editing Lewes's final work Life and Mind for publication, and she found solace with John Walter Cross, a Scottish commission agent whose mother had recently died.

Asser in his Life of Alfred claims that Alfred's mother, Osburga, was descended from the Jutes of the Isle of Wight, whom he identifies with the Goths.

* Travel writer Richard Halliburton ( 1900 – 1939 ) gathered material, including an interview with Brooke's mother, for an eventual biography of Brooke, but completion of the task fell to Arthur Springer whose Red Wine of Youth — A Life of Rupert Brooke, benefitting from Halliburton's researches, appeared in 1952.

His mother once made an appearance as a participant on the television show You Bet Your Life, hosted by Groucho Marx.

In his Life of Sertorius cited above, Plutarch recounts what he says to be a local myth, according to which Heracles consorted with Tinge after the death of Antaeus and had by her a son Sophax, who named a city in North Africa Tingis after his mother.

Ringwald is currently starring in the ABC Family network's series The Secret Life of the American Teenager, which debuted on July 1, 2008, playing the title teenager's mother.

* In the movie " An Unfinished Life " Becca Gardner's character asks her mother, played by Jennifer Lopez, " Tribune Kansas ; do you want to go there?

His Life of the Virgin is thought to be the earliest complete biography of Mary, the mother of Jesus.

* Life of the Virgin ( Biography )-earliest complete biography of Mary, the mother of Jesus

* Spungen's mother, Deborah, wrote a book about her daughter and her involvement with Vicious in And I Don't Want to Live This Life.

Her mother played a part in several films, including Vykrutasy, and the upcoming American silent movie Silent Life ( 2012 ).

On 20 August 1996, Rude Awakening bassist Robert Ryder held " A Celebration of the Life of Philip Lynott " at the Palace in Hollywood, California at the request of Lynott's mother, Philomena, to commemorate both Phil Lynott's birthday and the tenth year of his passing.

It is a lament by a mother for a child she buries there during Aimsir an Drochshaoil (‘ The Time of the Bad Life ’-the Famine ).

The effect was that the Infant Life Preservation Act was decoupled from the Abortion Act thus allowing abortion to full term for disability, life of the mother and health of the mother.

In Gnosticism, according to the Life of Adam and Eve, Cain fetched his mother a reed ( Heb.

His mother had learned of his cinematic and disco career after reading an article about the films of John Waters in Life magazine, and had gone to see Female Trouble at the cinema, but had not felt emotionally able to get back in contact with her son until 1981.

-- Personal Life — Alphonse Picou's father was Alfred Picou and mother was Clotilde ( Serpas ) Picou.

Conrad Black's mother was the former Jean Elizabeth Riley, a daughter of Conrad Stephenson Riley, whose father founded the Great-West Life Assurance Company, and a great-granddaughter of an early co-owner of the Daily Telegraph.