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An old woman; -- usually in contempt. But still the crone was constant to her note. Dryden.

terized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfullness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman. He had received a cross answer from his mistress. Jer. Taylor.

s a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness. Prov. xvi. 31. A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband. Prov. xvi. 4.

A form of pommel for a woman's saddle, consisting of a forked rest to hold the leg of the rider.

. Is. lxv. 14. I could find it in my heart to disgrace my man's apparel and to cry like a woman. Shak.

A woman whose husband is unfaithful to her. [Obs.]

A woman who cures.

A lewd woman. [Obs.] Shak.

A light or unchaste woman. Sir W. Scott.

A lewd woman; a harlot.

A slovenly woman; a slattern; a draggle-tail.

A woman in general, esp. an elderly woman.

A young unmarried woman; a gerl; a maiden. With her train of damsels she was gone, In shady walks the scorching heat to shum. Dryden. Sometimes a troop of damsels glad, . . . Goes by to towered Cameleot. Tennyson.

a professional female dancer; a woman who dances at a public exhibition as in a ballet.

errify; to daunt. [Obs.] For I have done those follies, those mad mischiefs, Would dare a woman. Beau. & Fl. To dare larks, to catch them by producing terror through to use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them. Nares.

and gave a dark tinge to all his views of human nature. Macaulay. There is, in every true woman-s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. W. Irving.

A female descendant; a woman. This woman, being a daughter of Abraham. Luke xiii. 16. Dinah, the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughter of the land. Gen. xxxiv. 1.

A woman set apart for church work by a bishop.

o vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army. Learning not debauched by ambition. Burke. A man must have got his conscience thoroughly debauched and hardened before he can arrive to the height of sin. South. Her pride debauched her judgment and her…

A woman who deciphers.