Mistress

·noun A married woman; a wife.

II. Mistress ·noun The old name of the jack at bowls.

III. Mistress ·vi To wait upon a mistress; to be courting.

IV. Mistress ·noun A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it.

V. Mistress ·noun A woman regarded with love and devotion; she who has command over one's heart; a beloved object; a sweetheart.

VI. Mistress ·noun A woman filling the place, but without the rights, of a wife; a concubine; a loose woman with whom one consorts habitually.

VII. Mistress ·noun A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, ·etc.; the female head of a family, a school, ·etc.

VIII. Mistress ·noun A title of courtesy formerly prefixed to the name of a woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the contracted forms, Mrs., for a married, and Miss, for an unmarried, woman.