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A female demigod.

A female demon.

A female detractor. Addison.

Having the sexes in applied to plants in which the female flowers occur on one individual and the male flowers on another of the same species, and to animals in which the ovum is produced by one individual and the sperm cell by another; -- opposed to monoecious.

A female disciple. [Obs.]

A female doctor.[R.]

A female doctor. [R.]

A female deer or antelope; specifically, the female of the fallow deer, of which the male is called a buck. Also applied to the female of other animals, as the rabbit. See the Note under Buck.

A female dolphin. [R.] Spenser.

A female Druid; a prophetess.

A female or hen eagle. [R.] Sherwood.

A female editor.

, architecture, etc. That grace that elegance affords. Drayton. The endearing elegance of female friendship. Johnson. A trait of native elegance, seldom seen in the masculine character after childhood or early youth, was shown in the General's fondness for the sight and fragrance of flowers. Hawthorne.…

A female sovereign.

Free; clear; devoid; -- often with of. "That fair female troop . . . empty of all good." Milton. I shall find you empty of that fault. Shak.

A female emulator. [R.]

Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; -- opposed to mixed. [R.]

The female of the sheep, and of sheeplike animals.

; justice. -- From fair to middling, passable; tolerable. [Colloq.] -- The fair sex, the female sex.

ral being or spirit, supposed to assume a human form (usually diminutive), either male or female, and to meddle for good or evil in the affairs of mankind; a fay. See Elf, and Demon. The fourth kind of spirit [is] called the Fairy. K. James. And now about the caldron sing, Like elves and fairies in a ring. Shak.…