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   feminine
         adj 1: associated with women and not with men; "feminine
                  intuition" [ant: {masculine}]
         2: of grammatical gender [ant: {masculine}, {neuter}]
         3: befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature
            woman; "womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion" [syn:
            {womanly}, {feminine}] [ant: {unwomanly}]
         4: (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable;
            "a feminine ending"
         n 1: a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to
               females or to objects classified as female

English Dictionary: femininity by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
feminineness
n
  1. the properties characteristic of the female sex [syn: femaleness, feminineness]
    Antonym(s): maleness, masculinity
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
femininity
n
  1. the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for women
    Synonym(s): femininity, muliebrity
    Antonym(s): masculinity
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Feminine \Fem"i*nine\, a. [L. femininus, fr. femina woman; prob.
      akin to L. fetus, or to Gr. qh^sqai to suck, qh^sai to
      suckle, Skr. dh[be] to suck; cf. AS. f[d6]mme woman, maid:
      cf. F. f[82]minin. See {Fetus}.]
      1. Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic
            of a woman; womanish; womanly.
  
                     Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine
                     ease and grace.                                 --Macaulay.
  
      2. 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.
  
                     Her heavenly form Angelic, but more soft and
                     feminine.                                          --Milton.
  
                     Ninus being esteemed no man of war at all, but
                     altogether feminine, and subject to ease and
                     delicacy.                                          --Sir W.
                                                                              Raleigh.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Feminine \Fem"i*nine\, n.
      1. A woman. [Obs. or Colloq.]
  
                     They guide the feminines toward the palace.
                                                                              --Hakluyt.
  
      2. (Gram.) 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.
  
                     There are but few true feminines in English.
                                                                              --Latham.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Feminine rhyme \Feminine rhyme\ (Pros.)
      See {Female rhyme}, under {Female}, a.
  
      Syn: See {Female}, a.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Femininely \Fem"i*nine*ly\, adv.
      In a feminine manner. --Byron.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Feminineness \Fem"i*nine*ness\, n.
      The quality of being feminine; womanliness; womanishness.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Femininity \Fem`i*nin"i*ty\, n.
      1. The quality or nature of the female sex; womanliness.
  
      2. The female form. [Obs.]
  
                     O serpent under femininitee.               --Chaucer.

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   funny money n.   1. Notional `dollar' units of computing time
   and/or storage handed to students at the beginning of a computer
   course; also called `play money' or `purple money' (in implicit
   opposition to real or `green' money).   In New Zealand and Germany
   the odd usage `paper money' has been recorded; in Germany, the
   particularly amusing synonym `transfer ruble' commemmorates the
   funny money used for trade between COMECON countries back when the
   Soviet Bloc still existed.   When your funny money ran out, your
   account froze and you needed to go to a professor to get more.
   Fortunately, the plunging cost of timesharing cycles has made this
   less common.   The amounts allocated were almost invariably too
   small, even for the non-hackers who wanted to slide by with minimum
   work.   In extreme cases, the practice led to small-scale black
   markets in bootlegged computer accounts.   2. By extension, phantom
   money or quantity tickets of any kind used as a resource-allocation
   hack within a system.   Antonym: `real money'.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   funny money
  
      Notional units of computing time and/or storage handed to
      students at the beginning of a computer course; also called
      "play money" or "purple money" (in implicit opposition to real
      or "green" money).
  
      In New Zealand and Germany the odd usage "paper money" has
      been recorded; in Germany, the particularly amusing synonym
      "transfer ruble" commemorates the funny money used for trade
      between COMECON countries back when the Soviet Bloc still
      existed.
  
      When your funny money ran out, your account froze and you
      needed to go to a professor to get more.   Fortunately, the
      plunging cost of {time-sharing} cycles has made this less
      common.   The amounts allocated were almost invariably too
      small, even for the non-hackers who wanted to slide by with
      minimum work.   In extreme cases, the practice led to
      small-scale black markets in bootlegged computer accounts.   By
      extension, phantom money or quantity tickets of any kind used
      as a resource-allocation hack within a system.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
  
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