English Dictionary: womanhood | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Waiment \Wai"ment\ v. & n. See {Wayment}. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wayment \Way"ment\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Waymented}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Waymenting}.] [OE. waymenten, OF. waimenter, gaimenter, guaimenter, from wai, guai, woe! (of Teutonic origin; see {Woe}) and L. lamentari to lament. See {Lament}.] To lament; to grieve; to wail. [Written also {waiment}.] [Obs.] Thilke science . . . maketh a man to waymenten. --Chaucer. For what boots it to weep and wayment, When ill is chanced? --Spenser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wayment \Way"ment\, n. Grief; lamentation; mourning. [Written also {waiment}.] [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Waiment \Wai"ment\ v. & n. See {Wayment}. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wayment \Way"ment\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Waymented}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Waymenting}.] [OE. waymenten, OF. waimenter, gaimenter, guaimenter, from wai, guai, woe! (of Teutonic origin; see {Woe}) and L. lamentari to lament. See {Lament}.] To lament; to grieve; to wail. [Written also {waiment}.] [Obs.] Thilke science . . . maketh a man to waymenten. --Chaucer. For what boots it to weep and wayment, When ill is chanced? --Spenser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wayment \Way"ment\, n. Grief; lamentation; mourning. [Written also {waiment}.] [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Waniand \Wan"i*and\, n. [See {Wanion}.] The wane of the moon. [Obs.] --Halliwell. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wayment \Way"ment\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Waymented}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Waymenting}.] [OE. waymenten, OF. waimenter, gaimenter, guaimenter, from wai, guai, woe! (of Teutonic origin; see {Woe}) and L. lamentari to lament. See {Lament}.] To lament; to grieve; to wail. [Written also {waiment}.] [Obs.] Thilke science . . . maketh a man to waymenten. --Chaucer. For what boots it to weep and wayment, When ill is chanced? --Spenser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wayment \Way"ment\, n. Grief; lamentation; mourning. [Written also {waiment}.] [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wayment \Way"ment\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Waymented}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Waymenting}.] [OE. waymenten, OF. waimenter, gaimenter, guaimenter, from wai, guai, woe! (of Teutonic origin; see {Woe}) and L. lamentari to lament. See {Lament}.] To lament; to grieve; to wail. [Written also {waiment}.] [Obs.] Thilke science . . . maketh a man to waymenten. --Chaucer. For what boots it to weep and wayment, When ill is chanced? --Spenser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wayment \Way"ment\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Waymented}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Waymenting}.] [OE. waymenten, OF. waimenter, gaimenter, guaimenter, from wai, guai, woe! (of Teutonic origin; see {Woe}) and L. lamentari to lament. See {Lament}.] To lament; to grieve; to wail. [Written also {waiment}.] [Obs.] Thilke science . . . maketh a man to waymenten. --Chaucer. For what boots it to weep and wayment, When ill is chanced? --Spenser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Woman \Wom"an\, n.; pl. {Women}. [OE. woman, womman, wumman, wimman, wifmon, AS. w[c6]fmann, w[c6]mmann; w[c6]f woman, wife + mann a man. See {Wife}, and {Man}.] 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. --Shak. And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman. --Gen. ii. 22. 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. --J. Ledyard. 2. The female part of the human race; womankind. Man is destined to be a prey to woman. --Thackeray. 3. A female attendant or servant. [bd] By her woman I sent your message.[b8] --Shak. {Woman hater}, one who hates women; one who has an aversion to the female sex; a misogynist. --Swift. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Womanhead \Wom"an*head\, Womanhede \Wom"an*hede\, n. Womanhood. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Womanhead \Wom"an*head\, Womanhede \Wom"an*hede\, n. Womanhood. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Womanhood \Wom"an*hood\, n. 1. The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind. Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood. --Spenser. Perhaps the smile and the tender tone Came out of her pitying womanhood. --Tennyson. 2. Women, collectively; womankind. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Waumandee, WI Zip code(s): 54622 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Wynantskill, NY Zip code(s): 12198 |