Mās'cu-line, a.

(-līn), a. [Lat. masculinus, from masculus, male, manly, diminutive of mas, maris, a male; Fr. & Pr. masculin, Sp., Pg., & It. masculino.]

1. Of the male sex; not female.
2. Having the qualities of a man; becoming to a man; virile; not feminine or effeminate; strong; robust; as, a masculine body.
3. Belonging to males; appropriated to, or used by, males. [Rare.]

Erected a masculine church (women being interdicted the entrance thereof) to the memory of St. Augustine. Fuller. 4. (Gram.) Having inflections, or construed with words, pertaining especially to male beings, as distinguished from feminine and neuter.