Wolves (?), n., pl. of Wolf.
Wolv"ish (?), a. Wolfish. Shak.
Wom"an (?), n.; pl. Women (#). [OE. woman, womman, wumman, wimman,
wifmon, AS. wfmann, wmmann; wf woman, wife + mann a man. See Wife, and
Man.]
1. An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished
from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.
Women are soft, mild pitiful, and flexible.
Shak.
And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman.
Gen. ii. 22.
I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves
more than the men; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil,
obliging, humane, tender beings, inclined to be gay and cheerful,
timorous and modest.
J. Ledyard.