Women

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Woman \Wom"an\, n.; pl. {Women}. [OE. woman, womman, wumman,
   wimman, wifmon, AS. w[imac]fmann, w[imac]mmann; w[imac]f
   woman, wife + mann a man. See {Wife}, and {Man}.]
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   1. An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as
      distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female
      person.
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            Women are soft, mild pitiful, and flexible. --Shak.
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            And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man,
            made he a woman.                      --Gen. ii. 22.
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            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.
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   2. The female part of the human race; womankind.
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            Man is destined to be a prey to woman. --Thackeray.
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   3. A female attendant or servant. " By her woman I sent your
      message." --Shak.
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   {Woman hater}, one who hates women; one who has an aversion
      to the female sex; a misogynist. --Swift.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Women \Wom"en\, n.,
   pl. of {Woman}.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Herdswoman \Herds"wom`an\, n.; pl. -{women}.
   A woman who tends a herd. --Sir W. Scott.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Beadswoman \Beads"wom`an\, Bedeswoman \Bedes"wom`an\, n.; pl.
   {-women}.
   Fem. of {Beadsman}.
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from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
WOMEN, persons. In its most enlarged sense, this word signifies all the 
females of the human species; but in a more restricted sense, it means all 
such females who have arrived at the age of puberty. Mulieris appellatione 
etiam virgo viri potens continetur. Dig. 50, 16, 13. 
     2. Women are either single or married. 1. Single or unmarried women 
have all the civil rights of men; they may therefore enter into contracts or 
engagements; sue and be sued; be trustees or guardians, they may be 
witnesses, and may for that purpose attest all papers; but they are 
generally, not possessed of any political power; hence they cannot be 
elected representatives of the people, nor be appointed to the offices of 
judge, attorney at law, sheriff, constable, or any other office, unless 
expressly authorized by law; instances occur of their being appointed 
postmistresses nor can they vote at any election. Woodes. Lect. 31; 4 Inst. 
5; but see Callis, Sew. 252; 2 Inst 34; 4 Inst. 311, marg. 
     3.-2. The existence of a married woman being merged, by a fiction of 
law, in the being of her husband, she is rendered incapable, during the 
coverture, of entering into any contract, or of suing or being sued, except 
she be joined with her husband; and she labors under all the incapacities 
above mentioned, to which single women are subject. Vide Abortion; Contract; 
Divorce; Feminine; Foetus; Gender; Incapacity; Man; Marriage; Masculine; 
Mother; Necessaries; Parties to Actions Parties to Contracts; Pregnancy; 
Wife.
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