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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Woman

Wom'an, n.

noun

n.; pl. WOM'EN (wĭm'en). [A-S. wīf-mann, wīmann, wīmmann, wēmmann, from wīf, woman, wife, and mann, a man.]

Sense 1. The female of the human race, grown to adult years.

And the rib which the Lord God had taken from man made he a woman. Gen. ii. 22.

Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible. Shak.

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, laborious and modest. Ledyard.

Sense 2. A female attendant or servant.

I could not personally deliver to her What you commanded me; but by her woman I sent your message. Shak.

Wom'an, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. 1. To make effeminate or womanish; to soften beyond what suits a man. [Rare.] Shak. 2. To furnish with, or unite to, a woman. [Rare.] “To have him see me womaned.” Shak.