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A short and fat woman; a squab. [Obs.]

nt dignity, In which that I have put you. Chaucer. I will put enmity between thee and the woman. Gen. iii. 15. He put no trust in his servants. Job iv. 18. When God into the hands of their deliverer Puts invincible might. Milton. In the mean time other measures were put in operation. Sparks.

Prostitution or fornication on the part of a woman.

Habitual lewdness or prostitution of a woman; harlotry.

Any woman supposed to have a spirit of divination; a sort of witch. Bp. Hall.

r. The atheist power shall quail, and confess his fears. I. Taylor. Stouter hearts than a woman's have quailed in this terrible winter. Longfellow.

A woman who is a member of the Society of Friends.

A woman; a young or unmarried woman; a girl. [Obs. or Scot.] Chaucer.

A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a female monarch; as, Elizabeth, queen of England; Mary, queen of Scots. In faith, and by the heaven's quene. Chaucer.

A romping woman; a prostitute. [Obs.] Lyly.

Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n. statutory rape.

To have carnal knowledge of (a woman) by force, and against her consent; to rape. Shak.

The act of ravishing a woman; rape.

Hence, to know fully; to comprehend. Who is't can read a woman Shak.

A contemptuous term applied to an old woman. [Obs.] Chaucer.

himself worthy of their most favorable regards. A. Smith. Save the long-sought regards of woman, nothing is sweeter than those marks of childish preference. Hawthorne.

A person connected by cosanguinity or affinity; a relative; a kinsman or kinswoman. For me . . . my relation does not care a rush. Ld. Lytton.

nnected by blood or affinity; strictly, one allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman. "Confining our care . . . to ourselves and relatives." Bp. Fell.

A woman whose husband is dead; a widow. Eli dying without issue, Jacob was obbliged by law to marry his relict, and so to raise up seed to his brother Eli. South.

To divorce, put away, or discard, as a wife, or a woman one has promised to marry. His separation from Terentis, whom he repudiated not long afterward. Bolingbroke.