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A woman who caters. Milton.

A woman's girdle; a cestus. [R.] Collins.

admit twenty-four changes in ringing. Holder. Change of life, the period in the life of a woman when menstruation and the capacity for conception cease, usually occurring between forty-five and fifty years of age. -- Change ringing, the continual production, without repetition, of changes on bells, See def. 9. above.…

A woman chauffeur.

A low courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration. De Quincey. Thackeray. Cheese cake, a cake made of or filled with, a composition of soft curds, sugar, and butter. Prior. -- Cheese fly (Zoöl.), a black dipterous insect…

A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden. "Stella is no chicken." Swift. Chicken cholera, a contagious disease of fowls; - - so called because first studied during the prevalence of a cholera epidemic in France. It has no resemblance to true cholera.

Any merely ornamental adjunct of a woman's dress, as a bunch of ribbon, lace, etc.

A knot, boss, or mass of hair, natural or artificial, worn by a woman at the back of the head. A curl that had strayed from her chignon. H. James.

The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.

forward chit; also, a young, small, or insignificant person or animal. A little chit of a woman. Thackeray.

A professed admirer of a married woman; a dangler about women.

A city woman [R.]

nything put together or made in a careless or slipshod way; hence, a sluttish or slipshod woman.

The living together of a man and woman in supposed sexual relationship. That the duty of cohabitation is released by the cruelty of one of the parties is admitted. Lord Stowell.

A small collar; specif., a woman's collar of lace, fur, or other fancy material.

be adle to comfort them that are in any affliction. 2 Cor. i. 4. (Rev. Ver. ). A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command. Wordsworth.

A woman who comforts. To be your comfortress, and to preserve you. B. Jonson.

A woman invested with authority to command. Hooker.

nsation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration. Womanly igenuity set to work by womanly compassion. Macaulay.

A woman who competes.