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ipe. The old males become dark bluish gray, due to the skin showing through the hair. The females are hornless. Called also nellut. [Written also kudu.]

tree, but to some extent on other trees, by the Coccus lacca, a scale-shaped insect, the female of which fixes herself on the bark, and exudes from the margin of her body this resinous substance.

A woman who looks after the domestic affairs of a family; a mistress; the female head of a household. Agar, the handmaiden of Sara, whence comest thou, and whither goest thou The which answered, Fro the face of Sara my lady. Wyclif (Gen. xvi. 8.).

To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.

esulting from inflammation or irritation of the membrane lining the genital organs of the female; the whites. Dunglison.

A female lion.

dwell or to be a lodger with. (b) To cohabit with; to have intercourse with, as male with female.

The name of a female fairy, esp. the queen of the fairies; and hence, sometimes, any fairy. Shak.

A female servant. Spinning amongst her maids. Shak.

A female servant. [Obs.]

A female servant.

a wider sense) to the sex that produces spermatozoa, by which the ova are fertilized; not female; as, male organs.

A female malefactor. Hawthorne.

A female demon who torments people in sleep by crouching on their chests or stomachs, or by causing terrifying visions.

The female of the horse and other equine quadrupeds.

very small, in being implacental, and in having their young born while very immature. The female generally carries the young for some time after birth in an external pouch, or marsupium. Called also Marsupiata.

Of the male sex; not female. Thy masculine children, that is to say, thy sons. Chaucer.

son wasp (Zoöl.), any wasp that constructs its nest, or brood cells, of hardened mud. The female fills the cells with insects or spiders, paralyzed by a sting, and thus provides food for its larvæ

Pain occuring in the mamma or female breast, -- a form of neuralgia.

To make visable in, or as in, a material form; -- said of spirits. A female spirit form temporarily materialized, and not distinguishable from a human being. Epes Sargent.