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spinster
(encz) | spinster,stará panna n: Zdeněk Brož |
Spinster
(gcide) | Spinster \Spin"ster\, n. [Spin + -ster.]
1. A woman who spins, or whose occupation is to spin.
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She spake to spinster to spin it out. --Piers
Plowman.
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The spinsters and the knitters in the sun. --Shak.
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2. A man who spins. [Obs.] --Shak.
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3. (Law) An unmarried or single woman; -- used in legal
proceedings as a title, or addition to the surname.
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If a gentlewoman be termed a spinster, she may abate
the writ. --Coke.
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4. A woman of evil life and character; -- so called from
being forced to spin in a house of correction. [Obs.]
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spinster
(wn) | spinster
n 1: an elderly unmarried woman [syn: spinster, old maid]
2: someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads) [syn:
spinner, spinster, thread maker] |
SPINSTER
(bouvier) | SPINSTER. An addition given, in legal writings, to a woman who never was
married. Lovel. on Wills, 269.
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spinsterhood
(encz) | spinsterhood,staropanenství n: Zdeněk Brož |
spinsterish
(encz) | spinsterish, |
Spinster
(gcide) | Spinster \Spin"ster\, n. [Spin + -ster.]
1. A woman who spins, or whose occupation is to spin.
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She spake to spinster to spin it out. --Piers
Plowman.
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The spinsters and the knitters in the sun. --Shak.
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2. A man who spins. [Obs.] --Shak.
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3. (Law) An unmarried or single woman; -- used in legal
proceedings as a title, or addition to the surname.
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If a gentlewoman be termed a spinster, she may abate
the writ. --Coke.
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4. A woman of evil life and character; -- so called from
being forced to spin in a house of correction. [Obs.]
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spinsterhood
(wn) | spinsterhood
n 1: the state of being a spinster (usually an elderly unmarried
woman) |
SPINSTER
(bouvier) | SPINSTER. An addition given, in legal writings, to a woman who never was
married. Lovel. on Wills, 269.
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