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mistress |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Mistress \Mis"tress\, v. i. To wait upon a mistress; to be courting. [Obs.] --Donne. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Mistress \Mis"tress\, n. [OE. maistress, OF maistresse, F. ma[^i]tresse, LL magistrissa for L. magistra, fem. of magister. See {Master}, {Mister}, and cf {Miss} a young woman.] 1. A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc The late queen's gentlewoman! a knight's daughter! To be her mistress' mistress! --Shak. 2. A woman well skilled in anything or having the mastery over it A letter desires all young wives to make themselves mistresses of Wingate's Arithmetic. --Addison. 3. A woman regarded with love and devotion; she who has command over one's heart; a beloved object; a sweetheart. [Poetic] --Clarendon. 4. A woman filling the place but without the rights, of a wife; a concubine; a loose woman with whom one consorts habitually. --Spectator. 5. A title of courtesy formerly prefixed to the name of a woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the contracted forms, Mrs., for a married, and Miss, for an unmarried, woman. Now Mistress Gilpin (careful soul). --Cowper. 6. A married woman; a wife. [Scot.] Several of the neighboring mistresses had assembled to witness the event of this memorable evening. --Sir W. Scott. 7. The old name of the jack at bowls. --Beau. & Fl {To be one's own mistress}, to be exempt from control by another person. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: mistress n 1: a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man [syn: {kept woman}, {fancy woman}] 2: a woman schoolteacher [syn: {schoolmarm}, {schoolmistress}] 3: a woman master who directs the work of others
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