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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_121158" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_121158" /> == | ||
<p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) | <p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' a.) [[Belonging]] to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' a.) Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness. </p> <p> '''(5):''' ''' (''' a.) Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization. </p> | ||
== King James Dictionary <ref name="term_60102" /> == | == King James Dictionary <ref name="term_60102" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> FE'MALE, n. L. femella. See Feminine. </p> 1. Among animals, one of that sex which conceives and brings forth young. 2. Among plants, that which produces fruit that which bears the pistil and receives the pollen of the male flowers. <p> FE'MALE, a. </p> 1. Noting the sex which produces young not male as a female bee. 2. Pertaining to females as a female hand or heart female tenderness. <p> To the generous decision of a female mind, we owe the discovery of America. </p> 3. [[Feminine]] soft delicate weak. <p> [[Female]] rhymes, double rhymes, so called from the French, in which language they end in e feminine. </p> | ||
== Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology <ref name="term_17839" /> == | == Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology <ref name="term_17839" /> == | ||
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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_40022" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_40022" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> ECCLESIASTIC. (For monographs, see Volbeding, Index, p. 164.) (See [[Ministry]]); (See [[Deaconess]]); (See [[Agapetae]]). </p> | ||
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