womans

English

Verb

womans

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of woman

Noun

womans

1. (nonstandard, proscribed) plural of woman
2. (obsolete) genitive of woman
   • 1610, William Camden, “Romans in Britaine”, in Philémon Holland, transl., Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press for] Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, →OCLC, page 48:

     Whereupon our enemies, kindled with rage, and pricked forward with an ignominious indignity, leſt they ſhould be brought under the yoke of a womans government, with a strong power of choiſe youth, by force of armes invaded her kingdome, which was foreſeen by us: […]

   • 1652, Nich[olas] Culpeper, “Spignel”, in The English Physitian: Or An Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation. […], London: […] Peter Cole, […], →OCLC, page 222, column 1:

     Galen ſaith, The Roots of Spignel are available to provoke Urine and Womans Courſes, but if too much thereof be taken it cauſeth Headach: […]

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 610–613:

     For that fair femal Troop thou ſawſt, that ſeemd
     Of Goddeſſes, ſo blithe, ſo ſmooth, ſo gay,
     Yet empty of good wherein conſiſts,
     Womans domeſtic honour and chief praiſe; […]

   • 1669, Marck de Vulson; Sieur de la Colombiere, translated by J. G, The Court of Curiositie. Wherein, by the Algebra and Lot, the Most Intricate Questions Are Resolved, and Nocturnal Dreams and Visions Explained, According to the Doctrine of the Antients. To Which Is Also Added, a Treatise of Physiognomy., London: […] J. C. for William Crooke, page 45:

     If a man Dreams his hair is long, like a Womans, that ſignifies cowardize and effœminacie, and that he that Dreams will be deceiv’d by a Woman.

   • 1689 [1683], Francis Osborn[e], “Some Traditional Memorials on the Reign of Q. Elizabeth”, in The Works of Francis Osborn, Esq; […], 9th edition, London: Printed, and are to be sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, →OCLC, paragraph 10, page 606:

     Wherefore the Earl of Eſſex, if he had not been befated with a ſtrong Opinion of ſucceſs in all his actions, (though built on the weakeſt foundation,) would never have referred his life and future well-being to the ſole arbitration of Chance, and the unconſtant guidance of a Womans Affection; which being only skin-deep, could not but in a Court furniſh a perſon of far leſs magnitude than a Sovereign Power with choice enough; eſpecially after his enemies, for their own ſecurity, had ſo far Indulged his, as to furniſh him with an Army paid by the Q. and choſen by himſelf.

   • 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[The Fables of Abstemius, &c.] Fab[le] CCLXXXI. A Sick Hermit.”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 245:

     Upon this, by Conſent, the Doctors put a Good Armful of Warm Womans Fleſh into the Bed to him, [...]

Anagrams

• Mawson