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A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.

A female supplicant. Rowe.

A female supporter. [R.] You are my gracious patroness and supportress. Massinger.

A woman who taunts.

A woman who entices. She was my temptress, the foul provoker. Sir W. Scott.

rments. Fortune ordinarily cometh after to whip and punish them, as the scourge and tormentress of glory and honor. Holland.

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

A woman who translates.

Tutoress. [Obs.] Selden.

Not tied up in tresses; unarranged; -- said of the hair. Chaucer.

A woman who wins a victory; a female victor.

A votaress. Dryden.

A female waiter or attendant; a waiting maid or waiting woman.

To clear (tress) from knots. [R.] Blount.

abuse of a female child. [Obs.] Or is it some abuse, and no such thing Shak. Abuse of distress (Law), a wrongful using of an animal or chattel distrained, by the distrainer.

Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.

To suffer pain; to have, or be in, pain, or in continued pain; to be distressed. "My old bones ache." Shak. The sins that in your conscience ache. Keble.

To inflict some great injury or hurt upon, causing continued pain or mental distress; to trouble grievously; to torment. They did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. Exod. i. 11. That which was the worst now least afflicts me. Milton.

Grievously painful; distressing; afflictive; as, an afflicting event. -- Af*flict"ing*ly, adv.

of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief. To repay that money will be a biting affliction. Shak.