Part 4240

<hw>Fe"mal-ize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To make, or to describe as, female or feminine.</def>

<i>Shaftesbury.</i>

<h1>Feme</h1> <Xpage=551>

<hw>Feme</hw> <tt>(? &or; ?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>feme</ets>, F. femme.]</ety> <fld>(Old Law)</fld> <def>A woman.</def>

<i>Burrill.</i>

<cs><col>Feme covert</col> <fld>(Law)</fld>, <cd>a married woman.</cd> See <er>Covert</er>, <tt>a.</tt>, 3. -- <col>Feme sole</col> <fld>(Law)</fld>, <cd>a single or unmarried woman; a woman who has never been married, or who has been divorced, or whose husband is dead.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Feme sole</col> <col>trader &or; merchant</col> <fld>(Eng. Law)</fld>, <cd>a married woman, by the custom of London, engages in business on her own account, inpendently of her husband.</cd></cs>

<h1>Femeral</h1> <Xpage=551>

<hw>Fem"er*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>See <er>Femerell</er>.</def>

<h1>Femer-ell</h1> <Xpage=551>

<hw>Fem"er-ell</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>fumeraille</ets> part of a chimney. See <er>Fume</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>A lantern, or louver covering, placed on a roof, for ventilation or escape of smoke.</def>

<h1>Femi-nal</h1> <Xpage=551>

<hw>Fem"i-nal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Feminine.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>West.</i>

<h1>Feminality</h1> <Xpage=551>

<hw>Fem`i*nal"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Feminity.</def>

<h1>Femi-nate</h1> <Xpage=551>

<hw>Fem"i-nate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>feminatus</ets> effeminate.]</ety> <def>Feminine.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Femi-nei-ty</h1> <Xpage=551>

<hw>Fem`i-ne"i-ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>femineus</ets> womanly.]</ety> <def>Womanliness; femininity.</def>

<i>C. Read<?/.</i>

<h1>Feminine</h1> <Xpage=551>

<hw>Fem"i*nine</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>femininus</ets>, fr. <ets>femina</ets> woman; prob. akin to L. <ets>fetus</ets>, or to Gr. <?/ to suck, <?/ to suckle, Skr. dh\'be to suck; cf. AS. <ets>f\'d6mme</ets> woman, maid: cf. F. <ets>f\'82minin</ets>. See <er>Fetus</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly.</def>

<blockquote>Her letters are remarkably deficient in <b>feminine</b> ease and grace. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate to the female sex; as, in a good sense, modest, graceful, affectionate, confiding; or, in a bad sense, weak, nerveless, timid, pleasure-loving, effeminate.</def>

<blockquote>Her heavenly form Angelic, but more soft and <b>feminine</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Ninus being esteemed no man of war at all, but altogether <b>feminine</b>, and subject to ease and delicacy. <i>Sir W. Raleigh.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Feminine rhyme</h1> <Xpage=551>

<hw>Feminine rhyme</hw>. <fld>(Pros.)</fld> <def>See <cref>Female rhyme</cref>, under <er>Female</er>, <tt>a.</tt></def>