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To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. [R.] R. Browning.

A woman who washes clothes, especially for hire, or for others.

A woman who performs any work; especially, a woman skilled in needlework.

uiled you in a plain accent." Shak. "A perfect accent." Thackeray. The tender accent of a woman's cry. Prior.

hich Providence did appoint it. Wilkins. These qualities . . . go to accomplish a perfect woman. Cowden Clarke.

tion. In act, in the very doing; on the point of (doing). "In act to shoot." Dryden. This woman was taken . . . in the very act. John viii. 4. Act of attainder. (Law) See Attainder. -- Act of bankruptcy (Law), an act of a debtor which renders him liable to be adjudged a bankrupt. -- Act of faith. (Ch. Hist.) See Auto…

A female stageplayer; a woman who acts a part.

A serpent. [Obs.] "The eddre seide to the woman." Wyclif. Gen. iii. 4. )

A woman who administers; esp., one who administers the estate of an intestate, or to whom letters of administration have been granted; a female administrator.

person or thing possessed of wonderful or high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman, of a landscape, of virtue.

The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, 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 woman who flatters with servility.

A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.

A woman who commits adultery.

by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband.

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

ld to exist sometimes between persons, esp. persons of the opposite sex; also, the man or woman who exerts such psychical or spiritual attraction.

A woman who keeps an alehouse. Gay.

A tall, strong, masculine woman; a virago.

Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband. [Obs.] Jacob.