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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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