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noun

Woman n. (pl. women)

An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person. "Women are soft, mild pitiful, and flexible." "And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman." "I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more than the men; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings, inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest."

The female part of the human race; womankind. "Man is destined to be a prey to woman."

A female attendant or servant. " By her woman I sent your message."

Woman hater, one who hates women; one who has an aversion to the female sex; a misogynist.

verb

Woman v. t.

To act the part of a woman in; with indefinite it.

To make effeminate or womanish. (R.)

To furnish with, or unite to, a woman. (R.) "To have him see me woman'd."

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Etymology of 'Woman'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Woman" Quotes from Famous Books

... know, for it was the first time I had had two women together in a house. Excited and anxious I had got to fucking-heat in anticipation of a small unprobed cunt, paid the money, and there was I with the two little ones face to face, two young cunts at my disposal, a novelty, and a charming one. The woman closed the door, casting a queer look at the girls and me. ...

— My Secret Life, Volumes I. to III. - 1888 Edition • Anonymous

... she only fixed her beady eyes upon his face. Hadden returned the compliment, staring at her with all his might, till suddenly he became aware that he was vanquished in this curious duel. His brain grew confused, and to his fancy it seemed that the woman before him had shifted shape into the likeness of colossal and horrid spider sitting at the mouth of her trap, and that these bones were the ...

— Black Heart and White Heart • H. Rider Haggard

... I knew. My drink is always beside the bed; the bell is the natural communication between me and the house. What a foolish chatterbox the woman was! I ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 146., January 21, 1914 • Various

... St. Clare. "Tell me of the lovely rule of woman! I never saw above a dozen women that wouldn't half kill a horse, or a servant, either, if they had their own way with ...

— Uncle Tom's Cabin • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... here that the cruelty principally exists. Before the dog-carts were put down in the metropolis, we then saw a man and a woman in one of these carts, drawn by a single dog, and going at full trot. Every passenger execrated them, and the trot was increased to a gallop, in order more speedily to escape the just reproaches that proceeded from every ...

— The Dog - A nineteenth-century dog-lovers' manual, - a combination of the essential and the esoteric. • William Youatt

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