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A woman; -- used in contempt. Burton.

A coarse, rustic woman. [R.] Sir W. Scott.

A woman who torments. Fortune ordinarily cometh after to whip and punish them, as the scourge and tormentress of glory and honor. Holland.

A worthless woman; also, a worthless horse. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A woman who plays in tragedy.

A woman who betrays her country or any trust; a traitoress. Dryden.

A net for confining a woman's hair. Spenser.

To change into a woman, as a man. [Obs. & R.] Sir T. Browne.

A woman who translates.

A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman. [Obs. or Colloq.]

A woman who is a treasurer. [R.]

A stroller; a loiterer; esp., an idle, untidy woman; a slattern; a slut; a whore.

One who trots; a child; a woman. An old trot with ne'er a tooth. Shak.

A short, squat woman. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

ess worn under armor, to protect the body from the effects of friction; also, a part of a woman's dress; a stomacher. [Obs.] Nares. Puts off his palmer's weed unto his truss, which bore The stains of ancient arms. Drayton.

like, folded across the breast, or attached to the gown at the neck, forming a part of a woman's dress in the 17th century and later.

A woman who performs the duties of a tutor; an instructress. E. Moore.

One of the breasts of a woman. [R.] Yon Juno of majestic size, With cowlike udders, and with oxlike eyes. Pope.

te; inconsonant; variable; untrustworthy; as, an uncertain person; an uncertain breeze. O woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please! Sir W. Scott.

A woman who has borne one child.