Emily Dickinson Lexicon

woman (-'s, women), n. [OE wífmon.] (webplay: beauty, God, grown, man, modest, ornament, perish, show, soft, taken, tender, wife, years).

1. Adult female.
2. [Fig.] mother; female who has offspring.
3. [Fig.] female who is man's consort.
4. [Fig.] married lady; female spouse.
5. [Fig.] lady responsible for domestic concerns [such as cooking, cleaning, and decorating.]
6. [Fig.] one belonging to the gentle-sex; lady who personifies femininity; female with one or more feminine virtues, such as chastity, modesty, kindness, love, devotion, patience, long-suffering, beauty, goodness, gentleness, reverence, piety, docility, and a propensity to gossip.