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The female of the canine kind, as of the dog, wolf, and fox.

male of the European black grouse (Tetrao tetrix, Linn.); - - so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See Heath grouse.

The female salmon in the spawning season.

ajolery; allurement. Cowering low with blandishment. Milton. Attacked by royal smiles, by female blandishments. Macaulay.

A literary lady; a female pedant. [Colloq.]

The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry. [Colloq.]

An American singing bird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus). The male is black and white; the female is brown; -- called also, ricebird, reedbird, and Boblincoln. The happiest bird of our spring is the bobolink. W. Irving.

A female slave, or one bound to service without wages, as distinguished from a hired servant.

(F., prop. good woman.) A female servant charged with the care of a young child.

Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mammma; a teat. My brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother. Cant. viii. 1.

now not your breeding. Shak. Close breeding, In and in breeding, breeding from a male and female from the same parentage. -- Cross breeding, breeding from a male and female of different lineage. -- Good breeding, politeness; genteel deportment.

A female friend who attends on a bride at her wedding.

Illustrious; glorious. In the brightest annals of a female reign. Cotton.

f a bell; a bell boy. -- Call note, the note naturally used by the male bird to call the female. It is artifically applied by birdcatchers as a decoy. Latham. -- Call of the house (Legislative Bodies), a calling over the names of members, to discover who is absent, or for other purposes; a calling of names with a vie…

e's usual occupation, or employment; vocation; business; trade. The humble calling of ter female parent. Thackeray.

A female professional singer.

(Arch.) A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster.

osed of numerous joints or segments, each of which may contain a complete set of male and female reproductive organs. They have neither mouth nor intestine. See Tapeworm. [Written also Cestoda.]

A female champion. Fairfax.

A female chanter or singer. Milton.