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"Section F, G and H"

Feminine applies
to gender rather than sex, and is grammatical rather than
physiological." Latham.


Fe"mal*ist (?), n. A
gallant.
[Obs.]


Courting her smoothly like a
femalist.
Marston.


Fe"mal*ize (?), v. t. To make, or
to describe as, female or feminine.
Shaftesbury.


||Feme (f&ebreve;m or făm),
n. [OF. feme, F. femme.] (Old
Law)
A woman. Burrill.


Feme covert (Law), a married woman.
See Covert, a., 3.
-- Feme
sole
(Law), a single or unmarried woman; a woman
who has never been married, or who has been divorced, or whose
husband is dead.
-- Feme sole trader
or merchant
(Eng. Law), a married woman, who, by
the custom of London, engages in business on her own account,
inpendently of her husband.


Fem"er*al (?), n. (Arch.)
See Femerell.


Fem"er*ell (?), n.


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