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lpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.

A female scold. [Obs.]

art of the human body, and burrowing beneath the skin produces great irritation. When the female is allowed to remain and breed, troublesome sores result, which are sometimes dangerous. See Jigger. [Written also chegre, chegoe, chique, chigger, jigger.]

A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate offspring. Used also of animals and plants.

e prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females.

The act of cutting off the prepuce or foreskin of males, or the internal labia of females.

A female citizen. [R.]

One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea.

A female coadjutor or assistant. Holland. Smollett.

A dyestuff consisting of the dried bodies of females of the Coccus cacti, an insect native in Mexico, Central America, etc., and found on several species of cactus, esp. Opuntia cochinellifera.

One who is related to another on the female side. Wharton.

A female heir who inherits with other heiresses; a joint heiress.

An organ of female insects, containing a cement to unite the ejected ova.

The act or art of coloring; the state of being colored. Bacon. The females . . . resemble each other in their general type of coloration. Darwin.

or horse kind of animals; -- sometimes distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female. Cf. Foal.

who keeps the entrance to an edifice, public or private; a doorkeeper; a janitor, male or female.

The coming together of a male and female in sexual commerce; the act of coition. Pennant.

A female contestant. [R.]

The part sung by the highest male or lowest female voices; the alto or counter tenor.

A female cook. [R.]