Woman /(?)/

pl. Women

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.

   And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman.

   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.

2. The female part of the human race; womankind.

   Man is destined to be a prey to woman.

3. A female attendant or servant.

1. To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it.
2. To make effeminate or womanish. [R.]
3. To furnish with, or unite to, a woman. [R.]