[QUOTE]Originally posted by Shelacious:
[B]Posted by Soror M. Webster Oxford
on another list:
Based on the definitions below I am a Woman. I have
produced no young, as of yet.
Female
1. a.Of, relating to, or denoting the sex thatproduces ova or bears young.
b.Characteristic of or appropriate to this sex; feminine. See Synonyms at feminine.
c.Consisting of members of this sex.
2.Botany.
a.Relating to or designating an organ, such as a pistil or an ovary, that functions in producing seedsafter fertilization.
b.Bearing pistils but not stamens; pistillate:female flowers.
3.Having a recessed part, such as a slot or
receptacle, designed to receive a complementary male part: the female section of an electrical outlet. n. Abbr. fem., f., F
1.A member of the sex that produces ova or bears young. 2.A woman or girl.
3.Botany. A plant having only pistillate flowers.
[Middle English alteration (influenced by male, male); see male of femelle, from Old French from Latin
fmella, diminutive of fmina, woman; see dh(i)- inIndo-EuropeanRoots.]
================================================== ====Woman
1.An adult female human being.
2.Women considered as a group; womankind: “Woman feels the invidious distinctions of sex exactly as the black
man does those of color” (Elizabeth Cady Stanton).
3.An adult female human being belonging to a specified occupation, group, nationality, or other category.
Often used in combination: Englishwoman;congresswoman; saleswoman.
4.Feminine quality or aspect; womanliness.
5.A female servant or subordinate.
6.Informal. a.A wife. b.A lover or sweetheart.
7.A representative, as of a company.
woman \Wom"an\, n.; 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 Isent your message.'' --Shak.
Woman hater, one who hates women; one who has an aversion to the female sex; a misogynist. --Swift.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, ©
1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.