Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FE'MALE, a.

1. Noting the sex which produces young; not male; as, a female bee.
2. Pertaining to females; as, a female hand or heart; female tenderness. To the generous decision of female mind, we owe the discovery of America. Belknap.
3. Feminine; soft; delicate; weak. Female rhymes, double rhymes, so called from the French, in which language they end in e feminine.