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Webster 1913 Edition
Woman
Wom′an
,Noun.
pl.
Women
(#)
. 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. Shakespeare
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.
Wom′an
,Verb.
T.
1.
To act the part of a woman in; – with indefinite it.
Daniel.
2.
To make effeminate or womanish.
[R.]
Shak.
3.
To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.
[R.]
“To have him see me woman’d.” Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Woman
WOMAN
,Noun.
plu.
1.
The female of the human race, grown to adult years.And the rib, which the Lord god had taken from the man, made he a woman. Genesis 2.
Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible.
We see every day women perish with infamy, by having been too willing to set their beauty to show.
I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more tan the men; that wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings, inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest.
2.
A female attendant or servant.