#374.  Woman. —­ N. woman, she, her, female, petticoat.
     feminality[obs3], muliebrity[obs3]; womanhood &c. (adolescence) 131.
     womankind; the sex, the fair; fair sex, softer sex; weaker vessel.
     dame, madam, madame, mistress, Mrs. lady, donna belle[Sp], matron,
dowager, goody, gammer[obs3]; Frau[Ger], frow[obs3], Vrouw[Dutch], rani; good woman, good wife; squaw; wife &c. (marriage) 903; matronage, matronhood[obs3].
     bachelor girl, new woman, feminist, suffragette, suffragist.
     nymph, wench, grisette[obs3]; girl &c. (youth) 129.
     [Effeminacy] sissy, betty, cot betty [U.S.], cotquean[obs3],
henhussy[obs3], mollycoddle, muff, old woman.
     [Female animal] hen, bitch, sow, doe, roe, mare; she goat, Nanny goat,
tabita; ewe, cow; lioness, tigress; vixen.
     gynecaeum[obs3].
     estrogen, oestrogen.
      consanguinity &c. 166[female relatives], paternity &c. 11.
     lesbian, dyke[slang]. 
     V. feminize. 
     Adj. female, she-; feminine, womanly, ladylike, matronly, maidenly,
wifely; womanish, effeminate, unmanly; gynecic[obs3], gynaecic[obs3]. 
     Pron. she, her, hers. 
     Phr. “a perfect woman nobly planned” [Wordsworth]; “a lovely lady
garmented in white” [Shelley]; das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan [Ger][Goethe]; “earth’s noblest thing, a woman perfected” [Lowell]; es de vidrio la mujer[Sp]; “she moves a goddess and she looks a queen” [Pope]; “the beauty of a lovely woman is like music” [G.  Eliot]; varium et mutabile semper femina [Lat][Vergil]; “woman is the lesser man” [Tennyson].

     #374a.  Sexuality [human] —­ N. sex, sexuality, gender; male,
masculinity, maleness &c. 373; female, femininity &c. 374.
     sexual intercourse, copulation, mating, coitus, sex; lovemaking,
marital relations, sexual union; sleeping together, carnal knowledge.
     sex instinct, sex drive, libido, lust, concupiscence; hots, horns
[coll]; arousal, heat, rut, estrus, oestrus; tumescence; erection, hard-on, boner.
     masturbation, self-gratification, autoeroticism, onanism, self-abuse.
     orgasm, climax, ejaculation.
     sexiness, attractiveness; sensuality, voluptuousness.
     [sexual intercourse outside of marriage] fornication, adultery.
     [person who is sexy] sex symbol, sex goddess; stud, hunk.
     one-night stand.
     pornography, porn, porno; hardcore pornography, softcore pornography;
pin-up, cheesecake; beefcake; Playboy[magazines with sexual photos], Esquire, Hustler.
     [unorthodox sexual activity] perversion, deviation, sexual
abnormality; fetish, fetishism; homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality; sodomy, buggery; pederasty; sadism, masochism, sado-masochism; incest. 
     V. mate, copulate; make love, have intercourse, fornicate, have sex,
do it, sleep together, fuck[vulg.]; sleep around, play the field..
     masturbate, jerk off[coll.],