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es and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova. The male and female of each living thing. Drayton.

a common species of fern with large decompound fronds (Asplenium Filixfæmina), growing in many countries; lady fern.

double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line.

See Maritime. [Obs.]

See Marmalade. [Obs.]

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from malic acid, and now called fumaric acid. [Obs.]

A Mexican dish made of crushed maize mixed with minced meat, seasoned with red pepper, dipped in oil, and steamed.

The liver of the lobster, which becomes green when boiled; -- called also tomalline.

A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks. See Abbey.

Violation; rape; as, abuse of a female child. [Obs.] Or is it some abuse, and no such thing Shak. Abuse of distress (Law), a wrongful using of an animal or chattel distrained, by the distrainer.

A female actor or doer. [Obs.] Cockeram.

e projection formed by the thyroid cartilage in the neck. It is particularly prominent in males, and is so called from a notion that it was caused by the forbidden fruit (an apple) sticking in the throat of our first parent. -- Adam's flannel (Bot.), the mullein (Verbascum thapsus). -- Adam's needle (Bot.), the popul…

A female helper or assistant. [R.]

s the estate of an intestate, or to whom letters of administration have been granted; a female administrator.

A female admonitor.

h, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.

aying the mind; any emotion; as, the benevolent affections, esteem, gratitude, etc. ; the malevolent affections, hatred, envy, etc.; inclination; disposition; propensity; tendency. Affection is applicable to an unpleasant as well as a pleasant state of the mind, when impressed by any object or quality. Cogan.…

To startle from quiet; to alarm. Smale foules a great heap That had afrayed [affrayed] me out of my sleep. Chaucer.

Related or akin by the father's side; also, sprung from the same male ancestor.