Woman: alternatives and connections

A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks. See Ab…

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A midwife.

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A female actor or doer.

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A woman who commits adultery.

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A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.

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A female pupil; especially, a graduate of a school or college.

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One of a fabulous race of female warriors in Scythia; hence, a female warrior.

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A female ambassador; also, the wife of an ambassador.

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A female author.

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The clothes, tents, utensils, and provisions of an army.

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A girl or woman who attends the customers of a bar, as in a tavern or beershop.

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A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for a lewd purpose; a procurer or procuress; a lewd person; -- usually applied to a wom…

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Alt. of Bedeswoman

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An assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the aesthetic faculty, or the moral sense.

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Fem. of Beadsman.

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A woman who confers a benefit.

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A literary lady; a female pedant.

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A woman who manages a boat.

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A female slave, or one bound to service without wages, as distinguished from a hired servant.

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See Bondwoman.

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A woman who is a slave, or in bondage.

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A woman newly married, or about to be married.

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A female friend who attends on a bride at her wedding.

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Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.

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An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is much larger th…

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Alt. of Charr

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A woman hired for odd work or for single days.

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A woman who leads or directs; a directress.

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A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes applied also to men.

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A woman born, or dwelling, in the country, as opposed to the city; a woman born or dwelling in the same country with another native or inhabitant.

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Belonging to Cyprus.

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A female servant whose business is the care of the dairy.

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A woman who attends to a dairy.

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A mistress of a family, who is a lady; a woman in authority; especially, a lady.

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A professional female dancer; a woman who dances at a public exhibition as in a ballet.

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A female deacon

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A person who makes his (or her) first appearance before the public.

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The mistress of Samson, who betrayed him (Judges xvi.); hence, a harlot; a temptress.

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A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.

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A person divorced.

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A lady; madam; mistress; -- the title given a lady in Italy.

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The consort of an emperor.

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A woman versed in magical arts; a sorceress; also, a woman who fascinates.

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Fem. of Englishman.

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Filling or satisfying the eye; visible; remarkable.

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A betrothed woman.

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A fishwoman.

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To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief.

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A woman who is chief; a woman who has charge of the work or workers in a shop or other place; a head woman.

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A woman guilty of fornication.

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A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.

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A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar.

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A woman of extraordinary size.

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A young person of either sex; a child.

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A woman who becomes sponsor for a child in baptism. See Godfather

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A female governor; a woman invested with authority to control and direct; especially, one intrusted with the care and instruction of children, -- usu…

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A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth.

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A female heir.

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A woman who tends a herd.

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A woman of an heroic spirit.

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A woman who rides on horseback.

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A female host; a woman who hospitably entertains guests at her house.

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A nymph of paradise; -- so called by the Mohammedans.

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A female servant employed to do housework, esp. to take care of the rooms.

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A woman who hunts or follows the chase; as, the huntress Diana.

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A housewife or housekeeper.

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A woman in love; a mistress.

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A heiress.

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Same as Inheritress.

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A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess.

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A stone, commonly of a pale to dark green color but sometimes whitish. It is very hard and compact, capable of fine polish, and is used for ornamenta…

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A Hebrew woman.

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A bold, vicious woman; a termagant.

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A woman who capriciously deceives her lover; a coquette; a flirt.

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A female relative.

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A woman who looks after the domestic affairs of a family; a mistress; the female head of a household.

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A woman having real estate which she leases to a tenant or tenants.

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A woman whose employment is laundering.

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Of or pertaining to the island anciently called Lesbos, now Mitylene, in the Grecian Archipelago.

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One who looks.

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Having such an appearance as excites, or is fitted to excite, love; beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner.

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Madam; my lady; -- a colloquial contraction of madam often used in direct address, and sometimes as an appellation.

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A gentlewoman; -- an appellation or courteous form of address given to a lady, especially an elderly or a married lady; -- much used in the address,…

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A Bacchante; a priestess or votary of Bacchus.

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An unmarried woman; usually, a young unmarried woman; esp., a girl; a virgin; a maiden.

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A female servant.

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A trap for catching trespassers.

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A marquis.

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One who performs massage.

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The mother and ruler of a family or of her descendants; a ruler by maternal right.

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A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners.

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The wife of a mayor.

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A woman who assists other women in childbirth; a female practitioner of the obstetric art.

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A woman who milks cows or is employed in the dairy.

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A woman who is a millionaire, or the wife of a millionaire.

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A pert or a wanton girl.

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A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc.

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A female maker of, or dealer in, articles of fashion, especially of the fashionable dress of ladies; a woman who gives direction to the style or mode…

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A woman who commits murder.

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A diminutive of Ann or Anne, the proper name.

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A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.

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A woman who negotiates.

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A black woman; a female negro.

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One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles a…

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A girl employed to attend children.

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A goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows, or waters.

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A little or young nymph.

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A female patron or helper.

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To accuse of crime; to inform against.

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A female writer; an authoress.

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A female poet.

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A woman who officiated in sacred rites among pagans.

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The first or chief female singer in an opera.

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A female prince; a woman having sovereign power, or the rank of a prince.

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A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess.

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A female procurer, or pander.

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A female prophet.

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A female proprietor.

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To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire.

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The wife of a king.

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One who ravishes (in any sense).

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A woman whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.

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A schoolmistress.

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A woman who governs and teaches a school; a female school-teacher.

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A female sculptor.

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A woman whose occupation is sewing; a needlewoman.

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A woman who seduces.

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A seamstress.

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A woman who tends sheep; hence, a rural lass.

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One of three sea nymphs, -- or, according to some writers, of two, -- said to frequent an island near the coast of Italy, and to sing with such sweet…

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A female who has the same parents with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case, she is more definitely called a half sister.…

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A woman who is negligent of her dress or house; one who is not neat and nice.

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An untidy woman; a slattern.

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One who, or that which, smashes or breaks things to pieces.

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A woman who sings; a female singing bird.

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A female sorcerer.

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A woman concerned in public affairs.

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A female steward; specifically, a woman employed in passenger vessels to attend to the wants of female passengers.

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A prostitute; a harlot.

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One who, or that which, stuns.

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A lover of mistress.

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An imaginary being inhabiting the air; a fairy.

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Sharp to the taste; acid; sour; as, a tart apple.

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To comb or card, as wool or flax.

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A woman who entices.

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A woman who trades, or is skilled in trade.

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A woman who betrays her country or any trust; a traitoress.

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A stroller; a loiterer; esp., an idle, untidy woman; a slattern; a slut; a whore.

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To advance; to travel.

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One who vamps; one who pieces an old thing with something new; a cobbler.

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Of or pertaining to Vesta, the virgin goddess of the hearth; hence, pure; chaste.

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A woman of extraordinary stature, strength, and courage; a woman who has the robust body and masculine mind of a man; a female warrior.

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The wife of a viscount.

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A female waiter or attendant; a waiting maid or waiting woman.

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A woman who washes clothes, especially for hire, or for others.

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The dabchick.

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See Waive.

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A woman who practices unlawful sexual commerce with men, especially one who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a harlot.

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A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband.

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A woman; an adult female; -- now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like.

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A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper.

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A woman who performs any work; especially, a woman skilled in needlework.

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Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.

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A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower clas…

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An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.

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A bed of earth or rock of one kind, formed by natural causes, and consisting usually of a series of layers, which form a rock as it lies between beds…

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The state of being a woman or of possessing full womanly powers; womanhood; -- correlate of virility.

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The state of being a woman or of possessing full womanly powers; womanhood; -- correlate of virility.

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The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind.

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The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind.

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To make like a woman; to make effeminate.

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To make like a woman; to make effeminate.

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The females of the human race; women, collectively.

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The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind.

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A human being; -- opposed tobeast.

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A human being; -- opposed tobeast.

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