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A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.

An imperfect female calf, twinborn with a male.

to ladies; in a bed sense, attention or courtesy designed to win criminal favors from a female; freedom of principle or practice with respect to female virtue; intrigue.

handsome breed of the common fowl, remarkable for the great courage and pugnacity of the males.

The male game fowl.

y conjugation, forming a zygospore. The gametes of higher plants are of two sorts, sperm (male) and egg (female); their union is called fertilization, and the resulting zygote an oöspore. In Zoöl., gamete is most commonly used of the sexual cells of certain Protozoa, though also extended to the germ cells of higher for…

Pertaining to, or resulting from, sexual connection; formed by the union of the male and female elements.

To drop from a high place upon sharp stakes or hooks, as the Turks dropped malefactors, by way of punishment. Ganching, which is to let fall from on high upon hooks, and there to hang until they die. Sandys.

The male of any species of goose.

f Abyssinia, remarkable for the length of the hair on the neck and shoulders of the adult male.

A castrated animal; -- usually applied to a horse, but formerly used also of the human male. They went down both into the water, Philip and the gelding, and Philip baptized him. Wyclif (Acts viii. 38).

Sex, male or female. [Obs. or Colloq.]

h (Zoöl.), a large European moth (Hepialus humuli); so called from the white color of the male, and the peculiar hovering flight; -- called also great swift. -- Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit; the Paraclete; the Comforter; (Theol.) the third person in the Trinity. -- To give up or yield up the ghost, to die; to expire.…

A male cat; a tomcat. [Obs.]

A male cat, esp. an old one. See lst Gib. n. [Obs.] Shak.

kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allowed to remain asa warning.

The male of the salmon. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

A boy or young man; a manservant; a male attendant, in the Scottish Highlands. Sir W. Scott.

A female pig, when young.

A female child, from birth to the age of puberty; a young maiden.