m-uh
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noun, plural wom⋅en [wim-in]
, verb, adjective | 1. | the female human being (distinguished from man ). |
| 2. | an adult female person. |
| 3. | a female attendant to a lady of rank. |
| 4. | a wife. |
| 5. | the nature, characteristics, or feelings often attributed to women; womanliness. |
| 6. | a sweetheart or paramour; mistress. |
| 7. | a female employee or representative: A woman from the real estate agency called. |
| 8. | a female person who cleans house, cooks, etc.; housekeeper: The woman will be in to clean today. |
| 9. | women collectively: Woman is no longer subordinate to man. |
| 10. | to put into the company of a woman. |
| 11. | to equip or staff with women. |
| 12. | Obsolete. to cause to act or yield like a woman. |
| 13. | of women; womanly. |
| 14. | female: a woman plumber. |
| 15. | be one's own woman, (of females) to be free from restrictions, control, or dictatorial influence; be independent. |

| a combining form of woman: chairwoman; forewoman; spokeswoman. |
woman tool
A replacement for the Unix man documentation browsing command. Version 1.157 of woman runs under/on 386BSD, OSF, Apollo Domain/OS, BSD, HP-UX, IBM RS-6000, Irix, Linux, Solaris, Sony NEWS, SunOS, Ultrix, Unicos.
Posted to comp.sources.reviewed Volume 3, Issue 50 on 05 Jul 1993 by Arne Henrik Juul
FTP USC, USA. FTP Imperial, UK.
(1995-03-21)
Woman
was "taken out of man" (Gen. 2:23), and therefore the man has the preeminence. "The head of the woman is the man;" but yet honour is to be shown to the wife, "as unto the weaker vessel" (1 Cor. 11:3, 8, 9; 1 Pet. 3:7). Several women are mentioned in Scripture as having been endowed with prophetic gifts, as Miriam (Ex. 15:20), Deborah (Judg. 4:4, 5), Huldah (2 Kings 22:14), Noadiah (Neh. 6:14), Anna (Luke 2:36, 37), and the daughters of Philip the evangelist (Acts 21:8, 9). Women are forbidden to teach publicly (1 Cor. 14:34, 35; 1 Tim. 2:11, 12). Among the Hebrews it devolved upon women to prepare the meals for the household (Gen. 18:6; 2 Sam. 13:8), to attend to the work of spinning (Ex. 35:26; Prov. 31:19), and making clothes (1 Sam. 2:19; Prov. 31:21), to bring water from the well (Gen. 24:15; 1 Sam. 9:11), and to care for the flocks (Gen. 29:6; Ex. 2:16). The word "woman," as used in Matt. 15:28, John 2:4 and 20:13, 15, implies tenderness and courtesy and not disrespect. Only where revelation is known has woman her due place of honour assigned to her.
woman
see feel like oneself (new woman); marked man (woman); (woman) of few words; own person (woman); right-hand man (woman); scarlet woman.