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English Dictionary: women	by the DICT Development Group
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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]:
Women \Wom"en\, n., pl. of {Woman}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beadswoman \Beads"wom`an\, Bedeswoman \Bedes"wom`an\, n.; pl. {-women}. Fem. of {Beadsman}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Herdswoman \Herds"wom`an\, n.; pl. -{women}. A woman who tends a herd. --Sir W. Scott.