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.
The female part of the human race; womankind. Man is destined to be a prey to woman. Thackeray.
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.
To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it. Daniel.
To make effeminate or womanish. [R.] Shak.
To furnish with, or unite to, a woman. [R.] "To have him see me woman'd." Shak.
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