This or that female; the woman understood or referred to; the animal of the female sex, or object personified as feminine, which was spoken of. She loved her children best in every wise. Chaucer. Then Sarah denied, . . . for she was afraid. Gen. xviii. 15.
A woman; a female; -- used substantively. [R.] Lady, you are the cruelest she alive. Shak.
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