woman
    n 1: an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman
         kept house while the man hunted" [syn: woman, adult
         female] [ant: adult male, man]
    2: a female person who plays a significant role (wife or
       mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man; "he
       was faithful to his woman" [ant: man]
    3: a human female employed to do housework; "the char will clean
       the carpet"; "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day
       while I write" [syn: charwoman, char, cleaning woman,
       cleaning lady, woman]
    4: women as a class; "it's an insult to American womanhood";
       "woman is the glory of creation"; "the fair sex gathered on
       the veranda" [syn: womanhood, woman, fair sex]

Woman \Wom"an\, v. t.
   1. To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it.
      --Daniel.
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   2. To make effeminate or womanish. [R.] --Shak.
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   3. To furnish with, or unite to, a woman. [R.] "To have him
      see me woman'd." --Shak.
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Woman \Wom"an\, n.; pl. Women. [OE. woman, womman, wumman,
   wimman, wifmon, AS. w[imac]fmann, w[imac]mmann; w[imac]f
   woman, wife + mann a man. See Wife, and Man.]
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   1. An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as
      distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female
      person.
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            Women are soft, mild pitiful, and flexible. --Shak.
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            And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man,
            made he a woman.                      --Gen. ii. 22.
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            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.
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   2. The female part of the human race; womankind.
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            Man is destined to be a prey to woman. --Thackeray.
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   3. A female attendant or servant. " By her woman I sent your
      message." --Shak.
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   Woman hater, one who hates women; one who has an aversion
      to the female sex; a misogynist. --Swift.
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woman

    A replacement for the Unix man documentation
   browsing command.  Version 1.157 of woman runs under/on
   386BSD, OSF, Apollo Domain/OS, BSD, HP-UX, IBM
   RS-6000, Irix, Linux, Solaris, Sony NEWS, SunOS,
   Ultrix, Unicos.

   Posted to comp.sources.reviewed Volume 3, Issue 50 on 05 Jul
   1993 by Arne Henrik Juul , archive-name
   woman-1.157.

   <FTP USC, USA>.
   <FTP Imperial, UK>.

   (1995-03-21)

Woman
   was "taken out of man" (Gen. 2:23), and therefore the man has
   the preeminence. "The head of the woman is the man;" but yet
   honour is to be shown to the wife, "as unto the weaker vessel"
   (1 Cor. 11:3, 8, 9; 1 Pet. 3:7). Several women are mentioned in
   Scripture as having been endowed with prophetic gifts, as Miriam
   (Ex. 15:20), Deborah (Judg. 4:4, 5), Huldah (2 Kings 22:14),
   Noadiah (Neh. 6:14), Anna (Luke 2:36, 37), and the daughters of
   Philip the evangelist (Acts 21:8, 9). Women are forbidden to
   teach publicly (1 Cor. 14:34, 35; 1 Tim. 2:11, 12). Among the
   Hebrews it devolved upon women to prepare the meals for the
   household (Gen. 18:6; 2 Sam. 13:8), to attend to the work of
   spinning (Ex. 35:26; Prov. 31:19), and making clothes (1 Sam.
   2:19; Prov. 31:21), to bring water from the well (Gen. 24:15; 1
   Sam. 9:11), and to care for the flocks (Gen. 29:6; Ex. 2:16).
   
     The word "woman," as used in Matt. 15:28, John 2:4 and 20:13,
   15, implies tenderness and courtesy and not disrespect. Only
   where revelation is known has woman her due place of honour
   assigned to her.
   

WOMAN, n.

        An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a
    rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.  It is credited by
    many of the elder zoologists with a certain vestigial docility
    acquired in a former state of seclusion, but naturalists of the
    postsusananthony period, having no knowledge of the seclusion,
    deny the virtue and declare that such as creation's dawn beheld,
    it roareth now.  The species is the most widely distributed of all
    beasts of prey, infesting all habitable parts of the globe, from
    Greenland's spicy mountains to India's moral strand.  The popular
    name (wolfman) is incorrect, for the creature is of the cat kind. 
    The woman is lithe and graceful in its movement, especially the
    American variety (_felis pugnans_), is omnivorous and can be
    taught not to talk.
                                                       Balthasar Pober