(a.) Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic
of a woman; womanish; womanly.
(a.) Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate
to the female sex; as, in a good sense, modest, graceful, affectionate,
confiding; or, in a bad sense, weak, nerveless, timid, pleasure-loving,
effeminate.
(n.) A woman.
(n.) Any one of those words which are the appellations of
females, or which have the terminations usually found in such words;
as, actress, songstress, abbess, executrix.
