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women 音标拼音: [w'ɪmən] n.
pl. 女人 女人 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}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. An adult female person; a grown- up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person. [ 1913 Webster] Women are soft, mild pitiful, and flexible. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman. -- Gen. ii. 22. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. The female part of the human race; womankind. [ 1913 Webster] Man is destined to be a prey to woman. -- Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster] 3. A female attendant or servant. " By her woman I sent your message." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] { Woman hater}, one who hates women; one who has an aversion to the female sex; a misogynist. -- Swift. [ 1913 Webster]
Women \ Wom" en\, n., pl. of { Woman}. [ 1913 Webster]
Herdswoman \ Herds" wom` an\, n.; pl. -{ women}. A woman who tends a herd. -- Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster]
Beadswoman \ Beads" wom` an\, Bedeswoman \ Bedes" wom` an\, n.; pl. {- women}. Fem. of { Beadsman}. [ 1913 Webster] WOMEN, persons. In its most enlarged sense, this word signifies all the females of the human species; but in a more restricted sense, it means all such females who have arrived at the age of puberty. Mulieris appellatione etiam virgo viri potens continetur. Dig. 50, 16, 13. 2. Women are either single or married. 1. Single or unmarried women have all the civil rights of men; they may therefore enter into contracts or engagements; sue and be sued; be trustees or guardians, they may be witnesses, and may for that purpose attest all papers; but they are generally, not possessed of any political power; hence they cannot be elected representatives of the people, nor be appointed to the offices of judge, attorney at law, sheriff, constable, or any other office, unless expressly authorized by law; instances occur of their being appointed postmistresses nor can they vote at any election. Woodes. Lect. 31; 4 Inst. 5; but see Callis, Sew. 252; 2 Inst 34; 4 Inst. 311, marg. 3.- 2. The existence of a married woman being merged, by a fiction of law, in the being of her husband, she is rendered incapable, during the coverture, of entering into any contract, or of suing or being sued, except she be joined with her husband; and she labors under all the incapacities above mentioned, to which single women are subject. Vide Abortion; Contract; Divorce; Feminine; Foetus; Gender; Incapacity; Man; Marriage; Masculine; Mother; Necessaries; Parties to Actions Parties to Contracts; Pregnancy; Wife. |
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