Word Meanings - FACTORESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A factor who is a woman.

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• WOMANLY
  Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne.
• FACTORIZE
  To give warning to; -- said of a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, the warning being to the effect that he shall not pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but appear and answer the
• WOMANHEAD; WOMANHEDE
  Womanhood. Chaucer.
• FACTORIAL
  A name given to the factors of a continued product when the former are derivable from one and the same function F by successively imparting a constant increment or decrement h to the independent variable. Thus the product F .F .F . .
• WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
  An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.
• WOMANHOOD
  1. The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind. Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood. Spenser. Perhaps the smile and the tender tone Came out of her pitying womanhood. Tennyson. 2.
• FACTORESS
  A factor who is a woman.
• WOMANIZE
  To make like a woman; to make effeminate. V. Knox.
• WOMANLIKE
  Like a woman; womanly. Womanlike, taking revenge too deep. Tennyson.
• WOMANLESS
  Without a woman or women.
• FACTORAGE
  The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his services; -- called also a commission.
• FACTORSHIP
  The business of a factor.
• WOMAN
  1. To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it. Daniel. 2. To make effeminate or womanish. Shak. 3. To furnish with, or unite to, a woman. "To have him see me woman'd." Shak.
• FACTOR
  One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission; a commission merchant or consignee. He may be a home factor or a foreign factor.
• WOMANKIND
  The females of the human race; women, collectively. A sanctuary into which womankind, with her tools of magic, the broom and mop, has very infrequent access. Hawthorne.
• FACTORING
  The act of resolving into factors.
• FACTORY
  1. A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers. "The Company's factory at Madras." Burke. 2. The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory. W. Guthrie.
• WOMANLINESS
  The quality or state of being womanly. There is nothing wherein their womanliness is more honestly garnished than with silence. Udall.
• WOMANISH
  Suitable to a woman, having the qualities of a woman; effeminate; not becoming a man; -- usually in a reproachful sense. See the Note under Effeminate. " Thy tears are womanish." Shak. " Womanish entreaties." Macaulay. A voice not soft,
• AIRWOMAN
  A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.
• OLFACTOR
  A smelling organ; a nose.
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• CALEFACTOR
  A heater; one who, or that which, makes hot, as a stove, etc.
• UNWOMAN
  To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. R. Browning.
• NOBLEWOMAN
  A female of noble rank; a peeress.
• MALEFACTOR
  1. An evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal. 2. One who does wrong by injuring another, although not a criminal. H. Brooke. Fuller. Syn. -- Evil doer; criminal; culprit; felon; convict.
• SATISFACTORY
  1. Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation. 2. Making amends, indemnification,
• BONDSWOMAN
  See BONDWOMAN
• OLFACTORY
  Of, pertaining to, or connected with, the sense of smell; as, the olfactory nerves; the olfactory cells. Olfactory organ , an organ for smelling. In vertebrates the olfactory organs are more or less complicated sacs, situated in the front part
• NEEDLEWOMAN
  A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.
• DAIRYWOMAN
  A woman who attends to a dairy.
• GENTLEWOMAN
  1. A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar. Bacon. 2. A woman who attends a lady of high rank. Shak.
• HERDSWOMAN
  A woman who tends a herd. Sir W. Scott.
• SALESWOMAN
  A woman whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.
• STATESWOMAN
  A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson.
• DISSATISFACTORY
  Causing dissatisfaction; unable to give content; unsatisfactory; displeasing. To have reduced the different qualifications in the different States to one uniform rule, would probably have been as dissatisfactory to some of the States, as difficult