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Stem
The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian.
Pudenda
The external organs of generation.
Hermitess
A female hermit.
Kittenish
Resembling a kitten; playful; as, a kittenish disposition.
Cadence
The act or state of declining or sinking.
Breakable
Capable of being broken.
Tempter
One who tempts or entices; especially, Satan, or the Devil, regarded as the great enticer to evil.
Brittle
Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious.
Emasculate
To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.
Contralto
The part sung by the highest male or lowest female voices; the alto or counter tenor.
Counseling
of Counsel
Sleazy
Wanting firmness of texture or substance; thin; flimsy; as, sleazy silk or muslin.
Houri
A nymph of paradise; -- so called by the Mohammedans.
Koala
A tailless marsupial (Phascolarctos cinereus), found in Australia. The female carries her young on the back of her neck. Called also Australian bear, native bear, and native sloth.
Frail
The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail.
Nerveless
Destitute of nerves.
House
A firm, or commercial establishment.
Milksop
A piece of bread sopped in milk; figuratively, an effeminate or weak-minded person.
Virile
Having the nature, properties, or qualities, of an adult man; characteristic of developed manhood; hence, masterful; forceful; specifically, capable of begetting; -- opposed to womanly, feminine..
Stirps
A race, or a fixed and permanent variety.
Dancer
One who dances or who practices dancing.
Naiad
A water nymph; one of the lower female divinities, fabled to preside over some body of fresh water, as a lake, river, brook, or fountain.
Male
Evil; wicked; bad.
Backstress
A female baker.
Vulva
The external parts of the female genital organs; sometimes, the opening between the projecting parts of the external organs.
Femalist
A gallant.
Uterus
The organ of a female mammal in which the young are developed previous to birth; the womb.
Winter
The season of the year in which the sun shines most obliquely upon any region; the coldest season of the year.
Penis
The male member, or organ of generation.
Ovary
That part of the pistil which contains the seed, and in most flowering plants develops into the fruit. See Illust. of Flower.
Yoni
The symbol under which Sakti, or the personification of the female power in nature, is worshiped. Cf. Lingam.
Sexed
Belonging to sex; having sex; distinctively male of female; as, the sexed condition.
Female
An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.
Ogress
A female ogre.
Spay
To remove or extirpate the ovaries of, as a sow or a bitch; to castrate (a female animal).
Bondmaid
A female slave, or one bound to service without wages, as distinguished from a hired servant.
Peri
An imaginary being, male or female, like an elf or fairy, represented as a descendant of fallen angels, excluded from paradise till penance is accomplished.
Accent
To mark emphatically; to emphasize.
Gonads
of Gonad
Peahen
The hen or female peafowl.
Lass
A youth woman; a girl; a sweetheart.
Geld
Money; tribute; compensation; ransom.
Harlot
A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth.
Damsel
A young person, either male or female, of noble or gentle extraction; as, Damsel Pepin; Damsel Richard, Prince of Wales.
Colon
That part of the large intestines which extends from the caecum to the rectum. [See Illust of Digestion.]
Papery
Like paper; having the thinness or consistence of paper.
Gamic
Pertaining to, or resulting from, sexual connection; formed by the union of the male and female elements.
Donna
A lady; madam; mistress; -- the title given a lady in Italy.
Amazon
One of a fabulous race of female warriors in Scythia; hence, a female warrior.
Subscription
Consent or attestation by underwriting the name.
Consent
Voluntary accordance with, or concurrence in, what is done or proposed by another; acquiescence; compliance; approval; permission.
Loutish
Clownish; rude; awkward.
Harem
The apartments or portion of the house allotted to females in Mohammedan families.
Squaw
A female; a woman; -- in the language of Indian tribes of the Algonquin family, correlative of sannup.
Helpmate
A helper; a companion; specifically, a wife.
Feme
A woman.
Confidante
One to whom secrets, especially those relating to affairs of love, are confided or intrusted; a confidential or bosom friend.
Boorish
Like a boor; clownish; uncultured; unmannerly.
Ladylike
Like a lady in appearance or manners; well-bred.
Sapphic
Of or pertaining to Sappho, the Grecian poetess; as, Sapphic odes; Sapphic verse.
Goody
A bonbon, cake, or the like; -- usually in the pl.
Hind
The female of the red deer, of which the male is the stag.
It
The neuter pronoun of the third person, corresponding to the masculine pronoun he and the feminine she, and having the same plural (they, their or theirs, them).
Lady
A woman who looks after the domestic affairs of a family; a mistress; the female head of a household.
Herself
An emphasized form of the third person feminine pronoun; -- used as a subject with she; as, she herself will bear the blame; also used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or obje..
Her
The form of the objective and the possessive case of the personal pronoun she; as, I saw her with her purse out.
She
This or that female; the woman understood or referred to; the animal of the female sex, or object personified as feminine, which was spoken of.
Puberty
The earliest age at which persons are capable of begetting or bearing children, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be about fourteen years in males and twelve in females.
Daughter
The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals.
Heiress
A female heir.
Housewifery
The business of the mistress of a family; female management of domestic concerns.
Prince
The one of highest rank; one holding the highest place and authority; a sovereign; a monarch; -- originally applied to either sex, but now rarely applied to a female.
Spectatrix
A female beholder or looker-on.
Seeress
A female seer; a prophetess.
Maid
A man who has not had sexual intercourse.
Manly
Having qualities becoming to a man; not childish or womanish; manlike, esp. brave, courageous, resolute, noble.
Gentlemanly
Of, pertaining to, resembling, or becoming, a gentleman; well-behaved; courteous; polite.
Housewife
The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.
Governess
A female governor; a woman invested with authority to control and direct; especially, one intrusted with the care and instruction of children, -- usually in their homes.
Spinster
A woman who spins, or whose occupation is to spin.
Dowager
A widow endowed, or having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after..
Dame
A mistress of a family, who is a lady; a woman in authority; especially, a lady.
Sorceress
A female sorcerer.
Nee
Born; -- a term sometimes used in introducing the name of the family to which a married woman belongs by birth; as, Madame de Stael, nee Necker.
Liberty
The state of a free person; exemption from subjection to the will of another claiming ownership of the person or services; freedom; -- opposed to slavery, serfdom, bondage, or subjection.
Girl
A young person of either sex; a child.
Delicately
In a delicate manner.
Kinswoman
A female relative.
Mountebank
To play the mountebank.
Devi
; fem. of Deva. A goddess.
Sybaritism
Luxuriousness; effeminacy; wantonness; voluptuousness.
Irresolution
Want of resolution; want of decision in purpose; a fluctuation of mind, as in doubt, or between hope and fear; irresoluteness; indecision; vacillation.
Effemination
Effeminacy; womanishness.
Indecisiveness
The state of being indecisive; unsettled state.
Relaxation
The act or process of relaxing, or the state of being relaxed; as, relaxation of the muscles; relaxation of a law.
License
Authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act; especially, a formal permission from the proper authorities to perform certain acts or to carry on a certain business, which without such ..
Waitress
A female waiter or attendant; a waiting maid or waiting woman.
Ashtoreth
The principal female divinity of the Phoenicians, as Baal was the principal male divinity.
Procuress
A female procurer, or pander.
Concierge
One who keeps the entrance to an edifice, public or private; a doorkeeper; a janitor, male or female.
Mountebank
One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor.
Ictus
The stress of voice laid upon accented syllable of a word. Cf. Arsis.
Reeve
The female of the ruff.
Thigh
The proximal segment of the hind limb between the knee and the trunk. See Femur.
Doe
A female deer or antelope; specifically, the female of the fallow deer, of which the male is called a buck. Also applied to the female of other animals, as the rabbit. See the Note under Buck.
Lioness
A female lion.
Mummer
One who mumms, or makes diversion in disguise; a masker; a buffon.
Mare
The female of the horse and other equine quadrupeds.
Filly
A female foal or colt; a young mare. Cf. Colt, Foal.
Bluestockingism
The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.
Magician
One skilled in magic; one who practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer.
Beard
The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.
Castrate
To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to alter.
Prestidigitator
One skilled in legerdemain or sleight of hand; a juggler.
Demigoddess
A female demigod.
Stripper
One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.
Colt
The young of the equine genus or horse kind of animals; -- sometimes distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female. Cf. Foal.
Musician
One skilled in the art or science of music; esp., a skilled singer, or performer on a musical instrument.
Presentment
The act of presenting, or the state of being presented; presentation.
Surrender
To yield to the power of another; to give or deliver up possession of (anything) upon compulsion or demand; as, to surrender one's person to an enemy or to an officer; to surrender a fort or a ..
Suffrage
A vote given in deciding a controverted question, or in the choice of a man for an office or trust; the formal expression of an opinion; assent; vote.
Lore
The space between the eye and bill, in birds, and the corresponding region in reptiles and fishes.
Vote
An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer.
Inanimate
To animate.
Liberality
The quality or state of being liberal; liberal disposition or practice; freedom from narrowness or prejudice; generosity; candor; charity.
Anchoress
A female anchoret.
Womanize
To make like a woman; to make effeminate.
Swish
To flourish, so as to make the sound swish.
Ox
The male of bovine quadrupeds, especially the domestic animal when castrated and grown to its full size, or nearly so. The word is also applied, as a general name, to any species of bovine anima..
Franchise
Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.
Cantatrice
A female professional singer.
Prima donna
The first or chief female singer in an opera.
Chantress
A female chanter or singer.
Alto
Formerly the part sung by the highest male, or counter-tenor, voices; now the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, between in tenor and soprano. In instrumental music it now sig..
Mezzo-soprano
Having a medium compass between the soprano and contralto; -- said of the voice of a female singer.
Dam
A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.
Genitals
The organs of generation; the sexual organs; the private parts.
Enervate
To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of.
Mincing
That minces; characterized by primness or affected nicety.
Seducer
One who, or that which, seduces; specifically, one who prevails over the chastity of a woman by enticements and persuasions.
Temptress
A woman who entices.
Forelock
The lock of hair that grows from the forepart of the head.
Grasshopper
Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families Acrididae and Locustidae. The species and genera are very numerous. The former family includes the Western grasshopper or locust (Caloptenus ..
Neuter
Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.
Frailty
The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced.
Delicacy
The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like.
Fragility
The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility.
Dally
To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.
Counterpoint
An opposite point
Conjurer
One who conjures; one who calls, entreats, or charges in a solemn manner.
Gnat
A blood-sucking dipterous fly, of the genus Culex, undergoing a metamorphosis in water. The females have a proboscis armed with needlelike organs for penetrating the skin of animals. These are ..
Circumcision
The act of cutting off the prepuce or foreskin of males, or the internal labia of females.
Softening
of Soften
Proprietress
A female proprietor.
Inconsiderate
Not considerate; not attentive to safety or to propriety; not regarding the rights or feelings of others; hasty; careless; thoughtless; heedless; as, the young are generally inconsiderate; in..
Performer
One who performs, accomplishes, or fulfills; as, a good promiser, but a bad performer; especially, one who shows skill and training in any art; as, a performer of the drama; a performer on the ..
Enervated
of Enervate
Charter
A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance.
Pregnant
Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth.
Meat
Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as, the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an egg.
Testes
pl. of Teste, or of Testis.
Ill-bred
Badly educated or brought up; impolite; incivil; rude. See Note under Ill, adv.
Duenna
The chief lady in waiting on the queen of Spain.
Adventuress
A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.
Odalisque
A female slave or concubine in the harem of the Turkish sultan.
Enchantress
A woman versed in magical arts; a sorceress; also, a woman who fascinates.
Unnerve
To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to unnerve the arm.
Basket
A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven.
Foot
The terminal part of the leg of man or an animal; esp., the part below the ankle or wrist; that part of an animal upon which it rests when standing, or moves. See Manus, and Pes.
Enchanter
One who enchants; a sorcerer or magician; also, one who delights as by an enchantment.
Vampire
A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This su..
Seductress
A woman who seduces.
Extraction
The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture.
Filiation
The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father.
Flirt
To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief.
Vamp
To advance; to travel.
Derivation
A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
Reduction
The act of reducing, or state of being reduced; conversion to a given state or condition; diminution; conquest; as, the reduction of a body to powder; the reduction of things to order; the re..
Puny
Imperfectly developed in size or vigor; small and feeble; inferior; petty.
Devitalize
To deprive of life or vitality.
Charybdis
A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.
Dispensation
The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration.
Thesis
A position or proposition which a person advances and offers to maintain, or which is actually maintained by argument.
Consanguinity
The relation of persons by blood, in distinction from affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as, lineal consanguinity; collateral consanguinity.
Phylum
One of the larger divisions of the animal kingdom; a branch; a grand division.
Accommodation
The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to.
Donation
The act of giving or bestowing; a grant.
Offer
To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.
Communication
The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret.
Attrition
The act of rubbing together; friction; the act of wearing by friction, or by rubbing substances together; abrasion.
Handmaiden
A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.
Exhaust
To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.
Ambassadress
A female ambassador; also, the wife of an ambassador.
Meter
One who, or that which, metes or measures. See Coal-meter.
Family
The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.
Pullet
A young hen, or female of the domestic fowl.
Sassafras
An American tree of the Laurel family (Sassafras officinale); also, the bark of the roots, which has an aromatic smell and taste.
Vulgar
Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular.
Slackening
of Slacken
Mitigation
The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity,..
Vixen
A female fox.
Competition
The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for ..
Vying
of Vie
Sex
The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of properties or qualities by which male is distin..
Cockney
An effeminate person; a spoilt child.
Castrated
of Castrate
Tacky
Sticky; adhesive; raw; -- said of paint, varnish, etc., when not well dried.
Chicken
A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.
Singer
One who, or that which, singes.
Teaser
One who teases or vexes.
Dyke
See Dike. The spelling dyke is restricted by some to the geological meaning.
Femme
A woman. See Feme, n.
Fag
A knot or coarse part in cloth.
Pansy
A plant of the genus Viola (V. tricolor) and its blossom, originally purple and yellow. Cultivated varieties have very large flowers of a great diversity of colors. Called also heart's-ease, ..
Effeminate
Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak.
Invert
To turn over; to put upside down; to upset; to place in a contrary order or direction; to reverse; as, to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc.
Hermaphrodite
An individual which has the attributes of both male and female, or which unites in itself the two sexes; an animal or plant having the parts of generation of both sexes, as when a flower contain..
Provision
The act of providing, or making previous preparation.
Unsubstantial
Lacking in matter or substance; visionary; chimerical.
Bisexual
Of both sexes; hermaphrodite; as a flower with stamens and pistil, or an animal having ovaries and testes.
Vestal
Of or pertaining to Vesta, the virgin goddess of the hearth; hence, pure; chaste.
Birth
The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.
Fatigue
Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength.
Insensitive
Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute sensibility.
Lightness
The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; nimbleness; delicacy; grace.
Dainty
Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything.
Gay
Excited with merriment; manifesting sportiveness or delight; inspiring delight; livery; merry.
Cervix
The neck; also, the necklike portion of any part, as of the womb. See Illust. of Bird.
Mother
A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.
Disintegration
The process by which anything is disintegrated; the condition of anything which is disintegrated.
Sister
A female who has the same parents with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case, she is more definitely called a half sister. The correlative of brother.
Impersonator
One who impersonates; an actor; a mimic.
Niece
A relative, in general; especially, a descendant, whether male or female; a granddaughter or a grandson.
Maid
An unmarried woman; usually, a young unmarried woman; esp., a girl; a virgin; a maiden.
Weakening
of Weaken
Screw
A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a continuous spiral groove between on..
Prophetess
A female prophet.
Bull
The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.
Stem
Alt. of Steem
Prolific
Having the quality of generating; producing young or fruit; generative; fruitful; productive; -- applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.; -- usually with the implied ide..
Admission
The act or practice of admitting.
Soft
Easily yielding to pressure; easily impressed, molded, or cut; not firm in resisting; impressible; yielding; also, malleable; -- opposed to hard; as, a soft bed; a soft peach; soft earth; soft w..
Hen
The female of the domestic fowl; also, the female of grouse, pheasants, or any kind of birds; as, the heath hen; the gray hen.
Frail
A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins.
Tactless
Destitute of tact.
Penwoman
A female writer; an authoress.
Unsex
To deprive of sex, or of qualities becoming to one's sex; esp., to make unfeminine in character, manners, duties, or the like; as, to unsex a woman.
Crude
In its natural state; not cooked or prepared by fire or heat; undressed; not altered, refined, or prepared for use by any artificial process; raw; as, crude flesh.
Undine
One of a class of fabled female water spirits who might receive a human soul by intermarrying with a mortal.
Caesura
A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle of a foot. Also, a long syllable on which the caesural accen..
Exhaustion
The act of draining out or draining off; the act of emptying completely of the contents.
Lilt
To do anything with animation and quickness, as to skip, fly, or hop.
Fecundity
The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially (Biol.), the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great numbers.
Fragile
Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed.
Waiver
The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.
Nasty
Offensively filthy; very dirty, foul, or defiled; disgusting; nauseous.
Honeybee
Any bee of the genus Apis, which lives in communities and collects honey, esp. the common domesticated hive bee (Apis mellifica), the Italian bee (A. ligustica), and the Arabiab bee (A. fasciata..
Rivalry
The act of rivaling, or the state of being a rival; a competition.
Abbess
A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks. See Abbey.
Consent
To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.
Collapse
To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a ..
Stirps
Stock; race; family.
Soften
To make soft or more soft.
Sept
A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; -- used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland.
Artist
One who practices some mechanic art or craft; an artisan.
Succession
The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disas..
Emasculated
of Emasculate
Queen
The wife of a king.
Fairy
Enchantment; illusion.
Swine
Any animal of the hog kind, especially one of the domestical species. Swine secrete a large amount of subcutaneous fat, which, when extracted, is known as lard. The male is specifically called b..
Ticket
A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something.
Fruit
Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; -- commonly used in the plural.
Gossamery
Like gossamer; flimsy.
Patent
Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous.
Ovule
The rudiment of a seed. It grows from a placenta, and consists of a soft nucleus within two delicate coatings. The attached base of the ovule is the hilum, the coatings are united with the nu..
Leave
To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.
Seed
of Seed
Egg
The oval or roundish body laid by domestic poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. It consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the "white" or albumen, and inclosed in a shell or strong membran..
Punk
Wood so decayed as to be dry, crumbly, and useful for tinder; touchwood.
Lineage
Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
Glowworm
A coleopterous insect of the genus Lampyris; esp., the wingless females and larvae of the two European species (L. noctiluca, and L. splendidula), which emit light from some of the abdominal ..
Child
A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate offspring. Used also of animals and plants.
Biddy
A name used in calling a hen or chicken.
Queer
At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in some odd way from what is ordinary; odd; singular; strange; whimsical; as, a queer story or act.
Tigress
The female of the tiger.
Unman
To deprive of the distinctive qualities of a human being, as reason, or the like.
Breed
To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
Coarse
Large in bulk, or composed of large parts or particles; of inferior quality or appearance; not fine in material or close in texture; gross; thick; rough; -- opposed to fine; as, coarse sand; ..
Deadening
of Deaden
Blood
The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial.
Delicate
Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring.
Authoress
A female author.
Flimsy
Weak; feeble; limp; slight; vain; without strength or solidity; of loose and unsubstantial structure; without reason or plausibility; as, a flimsy argument, excuse, objection.
Accordance
Agreement; harmony; conformity.
Nix
One of a class of water spirits, commonly described as of a mischievous disposition.
Stress
Distress.
Lesbian
Of or pertaining to the island anciently called Lesbos, now Mitylene, in the Grecian Archipelago.
Siren
One of three sea nymphs, -- or, according to some writers, of two, -- said to frequent an island near the coast of Italy, and to sing with such sweetness that they lured mariners to destruction...
Virago
A woman of extraordinary stature, strength, and courage; a woman who has the robust body and masculine mind of a man; a female warrior.
Jezebel
A bold, vicious woman; a termagant.
Bitch
The female of the canine kind, as of the dog, wolf, and fox.
Weakly
In a weak manner; with little strength or vigor; feebly.
Goddess
A female god; a divinity, or deity, of the female sex.
Numbers
pl. of Number. The fourth book of the Pentateuch, containing the census of the Hebrews.
Stewardess
A female steward; specifically, a woman employed in passenger vessels to attend to the wants of female passengers.
Hostess
A female host; a woman who hospitably entertains guests at her house.
Iambic
Consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented; as, an iambic foot.
Slight
Sleight.
Bag
A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.
Bestowal
The act of bestowing; disposal.
Delivery
The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.
Sexual
Of or pertaining to sex, or the sexes; distinguishing sex; peculiar to the distinction and office of male or female; relating to the distinctive genital organs of the sexes; proceeding from, or ..
Nice
Foolish; silly; simple; ignorant; also, weak; effeminate.
Dactyl
A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tegm/n/, E. mer\b6ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its ..
Cook
To make the noise of the cuckoo.
Subscription
The act of subscribing.
Allowance
Approval; approbation.
Wench
A young woman; a girl; a maiden.
Maiden
An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid.
Quantity
To modify or qualify with respect to quantity; to fix or express the quantity of; to rate.
Deliverance
The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive.
Chaperon
A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood.
Confidant
Alt. of Confidante
Flit
To move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird flits away; a cloud flits along.
Companion
One who accompanies or is in company with another for a longer or shorter period, either from choice or casually; one who is much in the company of, or is associated with, another or others; an ..
Rhythm
In the widest sense, a dividing into short portions by a regular succession of motions, impulses, sounds, accents, etc., producing an agreeable effect, as in music poetry, the dance, or the l..
Grant
To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.
Release
To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
Virgin
A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maid.
Debilitated
of Debilitate
Barren
Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.
Branch
A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.
Hypnosis
Supervention of sleep.
Coquette
A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes applied also to men.
Gelded
of Geld
Period
A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months, ..
Light
That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous.
Unmanned
Deprived of manly qualities; deficient in vigor, strength, courage, etc.; weak; effeminate.
Offensive
Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words.
Animate
To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.
Accent
A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.
Perverted
of Pervert
Daintiness
The quality of being dainty; nicety; niceness; elegance; delicacy; deliciousness; fastidiousness; squeamishness.
Soubrette
A female servant or attendant; specifically, as a term of the theater, a lady's maid, in comedies, who acts the part of an intrigante; a meddlesome, mischievous female servant or young woman.
Ewe
The female of the sheep, and of sheeplike animals.
Stock
The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.
Race
To raze.
Vouchsafement
The act of vouchsafing, or that which is vouchsafed; a gift or grant in condescension.
Descent
The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.
Endowment
The act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support.
Abatement
The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof.
Award
To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant.
Movement
The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; advancement; as, the movement of an army in ..
Milk
A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, ..
House
A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a dwelling place, a mansion.
Mistress
A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc.
Woman
An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.
Investiture
The act or ceremony of investing, or the of being invested, as with an office; a giving possession; also, the right of so investing.
Matron
A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners.
Side
The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distinguished from the shorter edges, called ends; ..
Strain
Race; stock; generation; descent; family.
Breast
The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse.
Line
Flax; linen.
Concubine
A woman who cohabits with a man without being his wife; a paramour.
Wife
A woman; an adult female; -- now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like.
Presentation
The act of presenting, or the state of being presented; a setting forth; an offering; bestowal.
Measure
A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and stated; hence, a rule by which anything is ..
Beat
of Beat
Concession
The act of conceding or yielding; usually implying a demand, claim, or request, and thus distinguished from giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous.
Diaeresis
Alt. of Dieresis
Contribution
The act of contributing.
Swing
To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.
Jingle
To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle.
Camp
The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc.
Rib
One of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax.
Sisterhood
The state or relation of being a sister; the office or duty of a sister.
Affiliation
Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society.
Womb
The belly; the abdomen.
Clitoris
A small organ at the upper part of the vulva, homologous to the penis in the male.
Vagina
A sheath; a theca; as, the vagina of the portal vein.
