FEMALE  , the correlative of " male," the See also:

• SEX (Lat. sexes; possibly connected with secure, to cut)

sex which performs the See also:

• FUNCTION

function of conceiving and bearing as opposed to the begetting of See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young . The word in See also:

• MIDDLE

Middle See also:

• ENGLISH

English is femelle, adopted from the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French from the See also:

• LAT

Lat. femella, which is a diminutive, and in classical Latin used strictly as such, of femina, a woman . The See also:

• PRESENT

present termination in English is due to a connexion in ideas with " male," In various See also:

• MECHANICAL

mechanical devices, where two corresponding parts See also:

• WORK

work within the other, the receiving See also:

• PART

part is often known as the " female," as for example in the " male " and " female See also:

• SCREW (O.E. scrue, from O. Fr. escroue, mod. ecrou; ultimate origin uncertain; the word, or a similar one, appears in Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Schraube, Dan. skrue, but Skeat, following Diaz, finds the origin in Lat. scrobs, a ditch, hole, particularl

screw." The O . Fr. feme, See also:

• MODERN

modern femme, occurs in legal phraseology in feme covert, a married woman, i.e. one protected or covered by a See also:

• HUSBAND

husband, and in feme See also:

• SOLE (Solea)

sole, one not so protected, a widow or spinster (see See also:

• WOMEN

WOMEN and HUSBAND AND WIFE) .