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A field worker, esp. a woman who works in the field. [Scot.]

(F., prop. good woman.) A female servant charged with the care of a young child.

A boaster. O, I could play the woman with mine eyes, And braggart with my tongue. Shak.

Any Brahman woman. [Written also Brahmanee.]

A form of woman's underwaist stiffened with whalebones, or the like, and worn to support the breasts.

A woman newly married, or about to be married. Has by his own experience tried How much the wife is dearer than the bride. Lyttleton. I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. Rev. xxi. 9.

An epitome. Each woman is a brief of womankind. Overbury.

To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp. [Obs.] We do want a certain necessary woman to broke between them, Cupid said. Fanshawe. And brokes with all that can in such a suit Corrupt the tender honor of a maid. Shak.

ldren of the same mother, especially if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children. The lion roars and gluts his tawny brood. Wordsworth.

A girl or woman with a somewhat brown or dark complexion. -- a.

A woman's breast. [Low]

To sleep on the same bed without undressing; -- applied to the custom of a man and woman, especially lovers, thus sleeping. Bartlett. Van Corlear stopped occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses. W. Irving.

A woman who picks up rags in the streets; hence, a low, vulgar woman. [Cant] Her . . . daughters, like bunters in stuff gowns. Goldsmith.

a university, as in scotland; a sum given to enable a student to pursue his studies. "No woman of rank or fortune but would have a bursary in her gift." Southey.

kii). See Shea tree. -- Butter trier, a tool used in sampling butter. -- Butter wife, a woman who makes or sells butter; -- called also butter woman. [Obs. or Archaic]

A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter. Regular canoness, one bound by the poverty, and observing a strict rule of life. -- Secular canoness, one allowed to hold private property, and bound only by vows of chastity and obedience so long as she chose to remain in the chapter.

A woman who carries a canteen for soldiers; a vivandière.

A woman's short cloak with a hood. Where's your cardinal! Make haste. Lloyd.

An old woman. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

A quarrelsome woman; a scold. [Colloq.]