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A loose woman; a prostitute. [Obs.] Mutton bird (Zoöl.), the Australian short-tailed petrel (Nectris brevicaudus). -- Mutton chop, a rib of mutton for broiling, with the end of the bone at the smaller part chopped off. -- Mutton fish (Zoöl.), the American eelpout. See Eelpout. -- Mutton fist, a big brawny fist or ha…

An extemporaneous funeral song, composed and sung by a woman on the death of a friend. [Modern Greece]

Closely connected or related. She is thy father's near kinswoman. Lev. xviii. 12.

A woman who takes care of cattle. [R.] Warner.

Born; -- a term sometimes used in introducing the name of the family to which a married woman belongs by birth; as, Madame de Staël, née Necker.

A woman who negotiates. Miss Edgeworth.

A black woman; a female negro.

A woman born in the state of villeinage; a female serf. Blackstone.

A woman devoted to a religious life, who lives in a convent, under the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. They holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration. Wordsworth.

One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm.

A woman who offends. Shak.

l. -- Old lady (Zoöl.), a large European noctuid moth (Mormo maura). -- Old maid. (a) A woman, somewhat advanced in years, who has never been married; a spinster. (b) (Bot.) A West Indian name for the pink- flowered periwinkle (Vinca rosea). (c) A simple game of cards, played by matching them. The person with whom th…

ct. Her father omitted nothing in her education that might make her the most accomplished woman of her age. Addison.

Single; inmarried. [Obs.] Men may counsel a woman to be one. Chaucer.

A woman who makes public addresses. Warner.

A woman plaintiff, or complainant, in equity pleading. Burrill.

of; to surmount; to conquer; to subdue; as, to overcome enemies in battle. This wretched woman overcome Of anguish, rather than of crime, hath been. Spenser.

To smother with a close covering, or by lying upon. This woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it. 1 Kings iii. 19. A heap of ashes that o'erlays your fire. Dryden.

ver or upon; specifically, to suffocate by lying upon; as, to overlie an infant. Quain. A woman by negligence overlieth her child in her sleeping. Chaucer.

A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.