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

triking alternately. It is called a mixed foursome when each side consists of a man and a woman.

Magnanimity; generosity; liberality; frankness; nobility. "Franchise in woman." [Obs.] Chaucer. Elective franchise, the privilege or right of voting in an election of public officers.

A paramour; a loose woman; also, a gay, idle fellow. [Obs.] Spenser.

In Germany, a woman; a married woman; a wife; -- as a title, equivalent to Mrs., Madam.

In Germany, a young lady; an unmarried woman; -- as a title, equivalent to Miss.

ge the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious. It may be a question whether the wife or the woman was the more freakish of the two. L'Estrange. Freakish when well, and fretful when she's sick. Pope. -- Freak"ish*ly, adv. -- Freak"ish*ness, n.

A lewd woman; a harlot. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow. [Obs.] "Raging frantic froes." Draylon.

A rustling, esp. the rustling of a woman's dress.

A woman; especially, a Dutch or German woman. Beau. & Fl.

A woman who sells fruit.

A cross, old-fashioned person; esp., an old woman; a gossip. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

Old-fashioned, as a woman's dress. Our Bell . . . looked very frumpish. Foote.

A plaited or gathered flounce on a woman's garment.

A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.

A woman's broad-brimmed hat of a form thought to resemble those shown in portraits by Thomas Gainsborough, the English artist (1727- 88).

An old wife; an old woman; -- correlative of gaffer, an old man.

ing to be an honest man; but the devil has this very day flung first a lawyer, and then a woman, in my gate. Sir W. Scott.

A queer old fellow; an old chap; an old woman. [Contemptuous, Slang or Dial.]