FE'MALE, n. L. femella. See Feminine.
1. Among animals, one of that sex which conceives and brings forth young.
2. Among plants, that which produces fruit that which bears the pistil and receives the pollen of the male flowers.
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 a female mind, we owe the discovery of America.
3. Feminine soft delicate weak.
Female rhymes, double rhymes, so called from the French, in which language they end in e feminine.