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A female seer; a prophetess.

lust. of Invagination. -- Segmentation nucleus (Biol.), the body formed by fusion of the male and female pronucleus in an impregnated ovum. See the Note under Pronucleus. -- Segmentation of the ovum, or Egg cleavage (Biol.), the process by which the embryos of all the higher plants and animals are derived from the ge…

The practice of attracting the males of Lepidoptera or other insects by exposing the female confined in a cage.

The seed or fecundating fluid of male animals; sperm. It is a white or whitish viscid fluid secreted by the testes, characterized by the presence of spermatozoids to which it owes its generative power. Semen contra, or Semen cinæ or cynæ, a strong aromatic, bitter drug, imported from Aleppo and Barbary, said to consist…

A half chorus; a passage to be sung by a selected portion of the voices, as the female voices only, in contrast with the full choir.

Forming or producing seed, or the male generative product of animals or of plants.

the old theory that the newly created being is formed by the admixture of the seed of the male with the supposed seed of the female.

ltan himself, and all the officers and dependents of his court. In it are also kept the females of the harem.

To copulate with; to cover; as, a horse serves a mare; -- said of the male.

Serving board (Naut.), a flat piece of wood used in serving ropes. -- Serving maid, a female servant; a maidservant. -- Serving mallet (Naut.), a wooden instrument shaped like a mallet, used in serving ropes. -- Serving man, a male servant, or attendant; a manservant. -- Serving stuff (Naut.), small lines for serv…

The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of properties or qualities by which male is distinguished from female.

Belonging to sex; having sex; distinctively male of female; as, the sexed condition.

A female sexton; a sexton's wife.

ining to sex, or the sexes; distinguishing sex; peculiar to the distinction and office of male or female; relating to the distinctive genital organs of the sexes; proceeding from, or based upon, sex; as, sexual characteristics; sexual intercourse, connection, or commerce; sexual desire; sexual diseases; sexual generati…

haumastura cora) having two of the tail feathers next to the middle ones very long in the male; -- called also cora humming bird.

A female Shaker.

This or that female; the woman understood or referred to; the animal of the female sex, or object personified as feminine, which was spoken of. She loved her children best in every wise. Chaucer. Then Sarah denied, . . . for she was afraid. Gen. xviii. 15.

ypeata), native of Europe and America. It has a large bill, broadest towards the tip. The male is handsomely variegated with green, blue, brown, black, and white on the body; the head and neck are dark green. Called also broadbill, spoonbill, shovelbill, and maiden duck. The Australian shoveler, or shovel-nosed duck (S…

ly, a brawling, turbulent, vexatious person of either sex, but now restricted in use to females; a brawler; a scold. A man . . . grudgeth that shrews [i. e., bad men] have prosperity, or else that good men have adversity. Chaucer. A man had got a shrew to his wife, and there could be no quiet in the house for her. L'Es…

A female fortune teller; a pythoness; a prophetess. "An old highland sibyl." Sir W. Scott.