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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

A woman who hunts or follows the chase;

as, the

huntress

Diana

Shak.

Noun.

A female that hunts, or follows the chase. Diana is called the huntress.

huntress ‎(plural huntresses)

A female hunter.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:
  In those same woods ye well remember may / How that a noble hunteress did wonne [...].
- 2014, William Kremer, A 13-year-old eagle huntress in Mongolia, BBC World Service:
  Ashol-Pan, the daughter of a particularly celebrated hunter, may well be the country's only apprentice huntress.

female who hunts