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x. *woman-post, s. A female post or me enger. "What woman - post is this?" Shakesp.: King John, L. *woman-queller, s. One who kills women. "Thou art Of these, 50,913 are from Scotland, 6,830 from Ireland, 61,136 from London, the remainder being distributed throughout England and Wales. The signatures include the heads of nearly all the colleges for women, and of a large proportion of the head mistre es of high and other public schools for girls, and of women serving on the boards of guardians and school boards. The leading women in the medical profe ion have signed, and a number of the most eminent in literature and art, besides many of wide social influence and leading workers in the many movements for the general well-being."Chicago Tribune, Sept. 12, 1894. woman-suffragist, s. One who be lives in and advocates the extending the suffrage to women. "There was a commotion among the delegates to the late woman suffragists ' convention." -Chicago Daily News , Feb. 23, 1894. *woman-tired, a . Henpecked. "Dotard, thou art woman-tired." Shakesp.: Winter's Tale , ii. 3. woman-vested, adj . Clothed like a woman; wearing women's clothes. (Tennyson: Prince , i. 163.) woman-warrior, s. A female warrior. "Thou woman- warrior with the curling hair." Pope: Homer's Iliad , xi. 492. woman-worship, s. Exce ive reverence paid to women. It is closely connected with the worship of female divinites, which probably is a develop ment from Nature-worship, in which the Earth was personified as a fruitful mother. Great reverence for women has always been a characteristic of the Teutonic nations, and was peculiarly prevalent in the ages of chivalry. Grimm ( Deut . Myth ., Eng. ed. i. 398) gives some remarkable for mule of chivalry ("by all women's honor," "for the sake of all women," .) in which this reverence in clearly shown. "He thus becomes the type of the husbands of the Middle Age, and of the woman - worship of chivalry. Woman worship, 'the honor due to the weaker ve el' is indeed of God, and woe to the nation and to the man in whom it dies."-C. Kingsley: Saint's Tragedy . (Introd.) *wom'-an, v. t. [WOMAN, 8.] 1. To act the part of a woman. (With an indefinite it .) "My daughter Silvia, how she would Have womaned it." Daniel . 2. To cause to act like a woman; to subdue to weakne like a woman. "I have felt so many quirks of joy and grief, That the first face of neither, on the start, Can woman me unto 't." Shakesp.: All's Well , iii. 2. 3. To unite to, or accompany by a woman. "I do attend here on the general; And think it no addition, nor my wish, To have him see me woman'd ." Shakesp.: Othello , iii. 4. 4. To call woman in an abusive manner. "She called her another time fat-face, and woman'd her most violently." -Richardson : Pamela , ii 268. * wom'-an-head', * wo-man-hed, *wo-manhede, s . [Eng. woman; -head .] Womanhood. "Thou glory of womanhed , thou faire May." Chaucer: C. Т. , 5,272. of women. 1. Women collectively; the female sex; the race imperial revenues should be spent. They also de "O dearest! most rever'd of womankind !"