To marry a woman with whom one has cohabitated as a mistress, is termed, making an honest woman of her.
·adj Chaste; faithful; virtuous. II. Honest ·adj Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming. III. Hones...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun A female attendant or servant. II. Woman ·vt To make effeminate or womanish. III. Woman ·vt ...
Was "taken out of man" (Gen. 2:23), and therefore the man has the preeminence. "The head of the woma...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
A term frequently used by superiors to inferiors. As honest a man as any in the cards when all the k...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Used in contradistinction to "purser's pounds" (which see). ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A woman that sells herbs. ...
·noun A lady's maid. II. Tire-woman ·noun A dresser in a theater. ...
The wife of Moses (Num. 12:1). It is supposed that Zipporah, Moses' first wife (Ex. 2:21), was now d...
A nondescript, represented on a famous sign in St. Giles's, in the form of a common woman. but witho...
a breeding woman. North. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
See fish-wife ...
The wife of Moses is to described in (Numbers 12:1) She is elsewhere said to have been the daughter ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
A prostitute. ...
A married couple, where the woman is bigger than her husband. ...
Sometimes applied to a female servant, who refuses none of her master's commands. ...
Stealing poultry. ...