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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Female \Fe"male\, n. [OE. femel, femal, F. femelle, fr L. femella dim. of femina woman. See {Feminine}.] 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova. The male and female of each living thing --Drayton. 2. (Bot.) A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Female \Fe"male\, a. 1. Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male. As patient as the female dove When that her golden couplets are disclosed. --Shak. 2. Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as female tenderness. ``Female usurpation.'b8 --Milton. To the generous decision of a female mind, we owe the discovery of America. --Belknap. 3. (Bot.) Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: female adj 1: (biology) being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop; "a female heir"; "female holly trees bear the berries" [ant: {androgynous}, {male}] 2: characteristic of or peculiar to a woman; "female sensitiveness"; "female suffrage" [syn: {distaff}] 3: for or composed of women or girls; "the female lead in the play"; "a female chorus" n 1: an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa) [ant: {male}] 2: a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies [syn: {female person}] [ant: {male}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex. The Maker, at Creation's birth, With living things had stocked the earth. From elephants to bats and snails, They all were good, for all were males. But when the Devil came and saw He said: "By Thine eternal law Of growth, maturity, decay, These all must quickly pass away And leave untenanted the earth Unless Thou dost establish birth" -- Then tucked his head beneath his wing To laugh -- he had no sleeve -- the thing With deviltry did so accord, That he'd suggested to the Lord. The Master pondered this advice, Then shook and threw the fateful dice Wherewith all matters here below Are ordered and observed the throw; Then bent His head in awful state, Confirming the decree of Fate. From every part of earth anew The conscious dust consenting flew, While rivers from their courses rolled To make it plastic for the mould. Enough collected (but no more For niggard Nature hoards her store) He kneaded it to flexible clay, While Nick unseen threw some away And then the various forms He cast, Gross organs first and finer last No one at once evolved, but all By even touches grew and small Degrees advanced, till, shade by shade, To match all living things He'd made Females, complete in all their parts Except (His clay gave out) the hearts. "No matter," Satan cried; "with speed I'll fetch the very hearts they need" -- So flew away and soon brought back The number needed, in a sack. That night earth range with sounds of strife -- Ten million males each had a wife; That night sweet Peace her pinions spread O'er Hell -- ten million devils dead! G.J.
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