Word Meanings - BELLIBONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A woman excelling both in beauty and goodness; a fair maid. Spenser.
Related words: (words related to BELLIBONE)
- WOMANLY
Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne. - WOMANHEAD; WOMANHEDE
Womanhood. Chaucer. - WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work. - EXCELLENT
1. Excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen, husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding, principles, aims, - BEAUTY
biauté, Pr. beltat, F. beauté, fr. an assumed LL. bellitas, from L. 1. An assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the æsthetic faculty, or the moral sense. Beauty consists of a certain composition of color - WOMANHOOD
1. The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind. Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood. Spenser. Perhaps the smile and the tender tone Came out of her pitying womanhood. Tennyson. 2. - WOMANIZE
To make like a woman; to make effeminate. V. Knox. - EXCELLENTLY
1. In an excellent manner; well in a high degree. 2. In a high or superior degree; -- in this literal use, not implying worthiness. When the whole heart is excellently sorry. J. Fletcher. - WOMANLIKE
Like a woman; womanly. Womanlike, taking revenge too deep. Tennyson. - WOMANLESS
Without a woman or women. - GOODNESS
The quality of being good in any of its various senses; excellence; virtue; kindness; benevolence; as, the goodness of timber, of a soil, of food; goodness of character, of disposition, of conduct, etc. - WOMAN
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. "To have him see me woman'd." Shak. - WOMANKIND
The females of the human race; women, collectively. A sanctuary into which womankind, with her tools of magic, the broom and mop, has very infrequent access. Hawthorne. - SPENSERIAN
Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene." - WOMANLINESS
The quality or state of being womanly. There is nothing wherein their womanliness is more honestly garnished than with silence. Udall. - WOMANISH
Suitable to a woman, having the qualities of a woman; effeminate; not becoming a man; -- usually in a reproachful sense. See the Note under Effeminate. " Thy tears are womanish." Shak. " Womanish entreaties." Macaulay. A voice not soft, - EXCELLENCY
1. Excellence; virtue; dignity; worth; superiority. His excellency is over Israel. Ps. lxviii. 34. Extinguish in men the sense of their own excellency. Hooker. 2. A title of honor given to certain high dignitaries, esp. to viceroys, ministers, - EXCELLENCE
1. The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue. Consider first that great Or bright infers not excellence. Milton. 2. An excellent or valuable quality; that by which - AIRWOMAN
A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft. - ENGLISHWOMAN
Fem. of Englishman. Shak. - UNWOMAN
To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. R. Browning. - NOBLEWOMAN
A female of noble rank; a peeress. - BONDSWOMAN
See BONDWOMAN - DISPENSER
One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors. - NEEDLEWOMAN
A woman who does needlework; a seamstress. - DAIRYWOMAN
A woman who attends to a dairy. - GENTLEWOMAN
1. A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar. Bacon. 2. A woman who attends a lady of high rank. Shak. - HERDSWOMAN
A woman who tends a herd. Sir W. Scott. - SALESWOMAN
A woman whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise. - STATESWOMAN
A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson. - CHARWOMAN
A woman hired for odd work or for single days. - TIRE-WOMAN
1. A lady's maid. Fashionableness of the tire-woman's making. Locke. 2. A dresser in a theater. Simmonds. - BOATWOMAN
A woman who manages a boat. - BONDWOMAN
A woman who is a slave, or in bondage. He who was of the bondwoman. Gal. iv. 23.