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A woman hater. Fuller.

A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.

A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc. The late queen's gentlewoman! a knight's daughter! To be her mistress' mistress! Shak.

Observing the proprieties of the sex; not unwomanly in act or bearing; free from undue familiarity, indecency, or lewdness; decent in speech and demeanor; -- said of a woman. Mrs. Ford, the honest woman, the modest wife. Shak. The blushing beauties of a modest maid. Dryden.

r of, or dealer in, articles of fashion, especially of the fashionable dress of ladies; a woman who gives direction to the style or mode of dress.

The possession by a woman of only one husband at the same time; -- contrasted with polyandry.

Marriage with the one woman only.

A female Moor; a Moorish woman.

A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth; hence, also, in fondness, a little girl, or a woman.

A slatternly, untidy woman. Halliwell.

kind of marriage, called also left-handed marriage, between a man of superior rank and a woman of inferior, in which it is stipulated that neither the latter nor her children shall enjoy the rank or inherit the possessions of her husband. Brande & C. -- Mor`ga*nat"ic*al*ly, adv.

A woman; a female. [Cant] Male gypsies all, not a mort among them. B. Jonson.

A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.

A woman's glove with a long, loosely fitting wrist.

The offspring of a negress by a white man, or of a white woman by a negro, -- usually of a brownish yellow complexion.

The state of being a woman or of possessing full womanly powers; womanhood; -- correlate of virility.

A woman.

Fond of woman. [R.] Charles Reade.

A woman who commits murder.

The close linen or muslin cap of an old woman. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]