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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Herdswoman \Herds"wom'an\, noun; pl. -{women}. A woman who tends a herd. --Sir W. Scott.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Woman \Wom"an\, noun; pl. {Women}. [OE. woman, womman, wumman, wimman, wifmon, AS. w[=i]fmann, w[=i]mmann; w[=i]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. '' By her woman I sent your message.'' --Shak.
{Woman hater}, one who hates women; one who has an aversion to the female sex; a misogynist. --Swift.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Women \Wom"en\, noun, pl. of {Woman}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Beadswoman \Beads"wom'an\, Bedeswoman \Bedes"wom'an\, noun; pl. {-women}. Fem. of {Beadsman}.
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