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A female steward; specifically, a woman employed in passenger vessels to attend to the wants of female passengers.

A female demon or fiend. See Succubus. Though seeming in shape a woman natural Was a fiend of the kind that succubæ some call. Mir. for Mag.

A female supplicant. Rowe.

To conceive after a prior conception, but before the birth of the offspring. The female . . . is said to superfetate. Grew.

A female supporter. [R.] You are my gracious patroness and supportress. Massinger.

foresight. One falsehood always supposes another, and renders all you can say suspected. Female Quixote.

s fat, which, when extracted, is known as lard. The male is specifically called boar, the female, sow, and the young, pig. See Hog. "A great herd of swine." Mark v. 11. Swine grass (Bot.), knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare); -- so called because eaten by swine. -- Swine oat (Bot.), a kind of oat sometimes grown for swine…

A female tailor.

A loquacious person, male or female; a prattler; a babbler; also, a boaster; a braggart; -- used in contempt or reproach. Jer. Taylor.

A female tapster. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Apt to adhere to another substance; glutinous; viscous; sticking; adhesive. "Female feet, too weak to struggle with tenacious clay." Cowper.

A woman who makes and leaves a will at death; a female testator.

Producing females only; -- said of certain female insects.

A female cat. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

The female of the tiger. Holland.

A female dancer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The female of the bullfinch; -- called also tonyhoop. [Prov. Eng.]

A genus of large hymenopterous insects allied to the sawflies. The female lays her eggs in holes which she bores in the trunks of trees with her large and long ovipositor, and the larva bores in the wood. See Illust. of Horntail.

A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns.

wallowed by man, they are liberated and rapidly become adult, pair, and the ovoviviparous females produce in a short time large numbers of young which find their way into the muscles, either directly, or indirectly by means of the blood. Their presence in the muscles and the intestines in large numbers produces trichin…