4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Woman \Wom"an\, n.; pl {Women}. [OE. woman, womman, wumman
wimman, wifmon AS w[=i]fmann, w[=i]mmann; w[=i]f woman,
wife + mann a man. See {Wife}, and {Man}.]
1. 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. --Shak.
And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man,
made he a woman. --Gen. ii 22.
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. --J. Ledyard.
2. The female part of the human race; womankind.
Man is destined to be a prey to woman. --Thackeray.
3. A female attendant or servant. `` By her woman I sent your
message.'' --Shak.
{Woman hater}, one who hates women; one who has an aversion
to the female sex; a misogynist. --Swift.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Women \Wom"en\, n.,
pl of {Woman}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beadswoman \Beads"wom`an\, Bedeswoman \Bedes"wom`an\, n.; pl
{-women}.
Fem. of {Beadsman}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Herdswoman \Herds"wom`an\, n.; pl -{women}.
A woman who tends a herd. --Sir W. Scott.
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