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of Keep. Kept mistress, a concubine; a woman supported by a man as his paramour.

Christian; christened. [Obs.] I am a true kirsome woman. Beau. & Fl.

A woman employed in the kitchen. Shak.

A knavish woman. Carlyle.

A woman who knits. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

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.).

The art or practice of captivating the hearts of women. Better for the sake of womankind that this dangerous dog should leave off lady-killing. Thackeray.

A monster capable of assuming a woman's form, who was said to devour human beings or suck their blood; a vampire; a sorceress; a with.

A woman having real estate which she leases to a tenant or tenants.

A youth woman; a girl; a sweetheart.

A washerwoman. [Obs.]

A woman whose employment is laundering.

An old dance, for two persons, being a kind of waltz, in which the woman made a high spring or bound. Shak.

A woman who makes laws. Shaftesbury.

ce with, a law of the ancient Israelites and other tribes and races, according to which a woman, whose husband died without issue, was married to the husband's brother. The firstborn son of a leviratical marriage was reckoned and registered as the son of the deceased brother. Alford.

union, or bond of union; an intimacy; especially, an illicit intimacy between a man and a woman.

Wanton; unchaste; as, a woman of light character. A light wife doth make a heavy husband. Shak.

Hence: A light or wanton woman. Beau. & Fl.

Single; unmarried, or in widowhood. [Archaic] Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman. Collection of Records (1642). A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear. Shak.

Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman. Loose ladies in delight. Spenser.