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An awkward, vulgarly dressed, inelegant woman. Shak. Dryden.

The property with which a woman is endowed; especially:

A woman entitled to dower. Bouvier.

The money, goods, or estate, which a woman brings to her husband in marriage; a bride's portion on her marriage. See Note under Dower. Shak. Dryden.

A low, sluttish woman. King.

A fierce, violent person, esp. a woman. Johnson.

To draw a liquid from some receptacle, as water from a well. The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. John iv. 11.

Any old woman who is employed to guard a younger one; a governess. Arbuthnot.

Characteristic quality of a woman, such as softness, luxuriousness, delicacy, or weakness, which is unbecoming a man; womanish delicacy or softness; -- used reproachfully of men. Milton.

Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak. The king, by his voluptuous life and mean marriage, became effeminate, and less sensible of honor. Bacon. An effeminate and unmanly foppery. Bp. Hurd.

In an effeminate or womanish manner; weakly; softly; delicately. "Proud and effeminately gay." Fawkes.

Effeminacy; womanishness. [Obs.] Bacon.

ivately, from the place or station to which one is bound by duty; -- said especially of a woman or a man, either married or unmarried, who runs away with a paramour or a sweetheart. Great numbers of them [the women] have eloped from their allegiance. Addison.

The act of eloping; secret departure; -- said of a woman and a man, one or both, who run away from their homes for marriage or for cohabitation.

ity; social or moral loftiness; high rank; distinction; preferment. Milton. You 've too a woman's heart, which ever yet Affected eminence, wealth, sovereignty. Shak.

Empire; sovereignty; dominion. [Archaic] Shak. Struggling for my woman's empery. Mrs. Browning.

To disguise with cosmetics, as a woman's complexion.

A woman versed in magical arts; a sorceress; also, a woman who fascinates. Shak.

A woman affected with ennui. Mrs. Jameson.

ing from the sight of another's excellence or good fortune and a longing to possess it. A woman does not envy a man for his fighting courage, nor a man a woman for her beauty. Collier. Whoever envies another confesses his superiority. Rambler.