Definition of Woan
Wom"an (?), n.; pl.
Women (#). [OE. woman, womman,
wumman, wimman, wifmon, AS. wīfmann,
wīmmann; wīf woman, wife + mann a man.
See Wife, and Man.]
1. An adult female person; a grown-up female
person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female
person.
Women are soft, mild pitiful, and
flexible. Shak.
And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he
a woman. Gen. ii. 22.
I have observed among all nations that the women
ornament themselves more than the men; that, wherever found, they are the
same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings, inclined to be gay and
cheerful, timorous and modest. J. Ledyard.
2. The female part of the human race;
womankind.
Man is destined to be a prey to woman.
Thackeray.
3. A female attendant or servant. " By her
woman I sent your message." Shak.
Woman hater, one who hates women; one who has an
aversion to the female sex; a misogynist. Swift.
Wom"an, v. t. 1. To act
the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it.
Daniel.
2. To make effeminate or womanish. [R.]
Shak.
3. To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.
[R.] "To have him see me woman'd." Shak.
Wom"an (?), n.; pl.
Women (#). [OE. woman, womman,
wumman, wimman, wifmon, AS. wīfmann,
wīmmann; wīf woman, wife + mann a man.
See Wife, and Man.]
1. An adult female person; a grown-up female
person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female
person.
Women are soft, mild pitiful, and
flexible. Shak.
And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he
a woman. Gen. ii. 22.
I have observed among all nations that the women
ornament themselves more than the men; that, wherever found, they are the
same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings, inclined to be gay and
cheerful, timorous and modest. J. Ledyard.
2. The female part of the human race;
womankind.
Man is destined to be a prey to woman.
Thackeray.
3. A female attendant or servant. " By her
woman I sent your message." Shak.
Woman hater, one who hates women; one who has an
aversion to the female sex; a misogynist. Swift.
Wom"an, v. t. 1. To act
the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it.
Daniel.
2. To make effeminate or womanish. [R.]
Shak.
3. To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.
[R.] "To have him see me woman'd." Shak.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
WOMAN, n.
An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a
rudimentary susceptibility to domestication. It is credited by
many of the elder zoologists with a certain vestigial docility
acquired in a former state of seclusion, but naturalists of the
postsusananthony period, having no knowledge of the seclusion,
deny the virtue and declare that such as creation's dawn beheld,
it roareth now. The species is the most widely distributed of all
beasts of prey, infesting all habitable parts of the globe, from
Greeland's spicy mountains to India's moral strand. The popular
name (wolfman) is incorrect, for the creature is of the cat kind.
The woman is lithe and graceful in its movement, especially the
American variety (felis pugnans), is omnivorous and can be
taught not to talk.
Balthasar Pober
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- An adult female human being.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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