Mistress definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary MIS'TRESS, n. [L. magistra ... woman who governs; correlative to servant, slave, or subject. My mistress here lies murdered in her bed. 2. The female head ... a family. 3. That which governs; a sovereign. Rome was mistress of the world. 4. One that commands, or has possession and sovereignty. The queen is mistress of the Indies. 5. A female who is well skilled in any thing; as, she is mistress of arithmetic. 6. A woman teacher; an instructress of a ... contemptuous address. MIS'TRESS, v.t. To wait upon a mistress; to be courting. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n ...
To be one's own mistress definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Mistress Mis"tress, n. [OE. maistress, OF. maistresse, F. ma[^i ... queen's gentlewoman! a knight's daughter! To be her mistress' mistress! --Shak. 2. A woman well skilled in anything, or having ... for a married, and Miss, for an unmarried, woman. Now Mistress Gilpin (careful soul). --Cowper. 6. A married woman; a wife ... jack at bowls. --Beau. & Fl. To be one's own mistress, to be exempt from control by another person.
Mistress of the robes definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Robe Robe ... is supposed to consist in caring for the royal robes. Mistress of the robes, a lady who enjoys the highest rank ...
... s 1828 Dictionary DAME, n. [Gr., to subdue] Literally, a mistress; hence, a lady; a title of honor to a woman. It is now generally applied to the mistress of a family in the common ranks of life; as ... propriety to any woman who is or has been the mistress of a family, and it sometimes comprehends women in general ... woman of rank, station, or authority: as a. archaic the mistress of a household b. the wife or daughter of a ... an elderly woman. Etymology: ME f. OF f. L domina mistress Webster's 1913 Dictionary Dame Dame (d[=a]m), n. [F. dame, LL. domna, fr. L. domina mistress, lady, fem. of dominus master, ruler, lord; akin to ...
... education. 2. A word of complaisance; used of women. 3. Mistress; the female who presides or has authority over a manor ... in address < ladies and gentlemen > 4. a. wife b. girlfriend, mistress 5. a. any of various titled women in Great Britain ... whom a man, esp. a knight, is chivalrously devoted; a mistress. Phrases and idioms: find the lady = three-card trick. the ... old lady colloq. 1 a mother. 2 a wife or mistress. Our Lady the Virgin Mary. Derivatives: ladyhood n. Etymology: OE ... who looks after the domestic affairs of a family; a mistress; the female head of a household. Agar, the handmaiden of ... xvi. 8.). 2. A woman having proprietary rights or authority; mistress; -- a feminine correlative of lord. ``Lord or lady of ...
... or girl; as little masters and misses. 2. A kept mistress; a prostitute retained; a concubine. MISS, v.t. [L. mitto ... a desired result 3. misfire III. noun Etymology: short for mistress Date: 1667 1. capitalized a. — used as a title prefixed ... etc. Derivatives: missish adj. (in sense 3). Etymology: abbr. of MISTRESS Webster's 1913 Dictionary Miss Miss, n.; pl. Misses. [Contr. fr. mistress.] 1. A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of ... girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5. Note: There is diversity of usage in the application ... busy 'mongst the maids and misses. --Cawthorn. 3. A kept mistress. See Mistress, 4. [Obs.] --Evelyn. 4. (Card Playing) In ...
... become a mother she fled from the cruelty of her mistress, intending apparently to return to her relatives in Egypt, through ... an ordinary household slave but the peculiar property of her mistress (compare Ge 29:24,29), any offspring which she might ... seems to have assumed an insolent bearing toward her childless mistress. Sarai felt keenly the contempt shown her by her handmaid ... at Sarai's disposal. Under the harsh treatment of her mistress Hagar's life became intolerable, and she fled into the ... and commanded her to return and submit herself to her mistress, promising her an innumerable seed through her unborn son, concerning ... heavenly vision Hagar returned, as the narrative implies, to her mistress and gave birth to Ishmael, Abram being then eighty- ...
chatelaine definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: the mistress of a chateau or large country house 2: a chain ... Date: 1845 1. a. the wife of a castellan ; the mistress of a château b. the mistress of a household or of a large establishment 2. a ... or bunch of keys Oxford Reference Dictionary n. 1 the mistress of a large house. 2 hist. a set of short ... F. ch[^a]telaine the wife of a castellan, the mistress of a chateau, a chatelaine chain.] An ornamental hook, or ... homemaker, housewife, intendant, jewel, locket, madam, manager, master, matriarch, matron, mistress, mother superior, necklace, nose ring, pin, precious stone, rhinestone, ...
... per, and amour.] 1. A lover; a wooer. 2. A mistress. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a woman's ... 1. A lover, of either sex; a wooer or a mistress (formerly in a good sense, now only in a bad ... n. 1. Lover (in a bad sense), leman. 2. Concubine, mistress. Moby Thesaurus Casanova, admirer, adorer, amorist, concubine, doxy, follower, infatuate, kept mistress, kept woman, lover, mistress, playmate, pursuer, suitor, unofficial wife, woman, wooer