womann.[OE. woman, womman, wumman, wimman, wifmon, AS. wfmann, wmmann; wf 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.(Shak.)Woman hater, one who hates women; one who has an aversion to the female sex; a misogynist. Swift.
()v. t.1. To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it.(Daniel.)2. To make effeminate or womanish.(Shak.)3. To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.(Shak.)n. Womanhood.(Chaucer.)
