Word Meanings - HOUSEWIFERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The business of the mistress of a family; female management of domestic concerns.

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• FEMALE
  A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• FAMILY
  A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
• DOMESTICATE
  1. To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self. 2. To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word. 3. To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild
• MISTRESS
  magistrissa, for L. magistra, fem. of magister. See Master, Mister, 1. A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc. The late queen's gentlewoman!
• BUSINESSLIKE
  In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
• DOMESTICATION
  The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals.
• DOMESTICANT
  Forming part of the same family. Sir E. Dering.
• FEMALE FERN
  a common species of fern with large decompound fronds , growing in many countries; lady fern. Note: The names male fern and female fern were anciently given to two common ferns; but it is now understood that neither has any sexual character. Syn.
• DOMESTICALLY
  In a domestic manner; privately; with reference to domestic affairs.
• DOMESTICAL
  Domestic. Our private and domestical matter. Sir. P. Sidney.
• DOMESTICATOR
  One who domesticates.
• MISTRESSSHIP
  1. Female rule or dominion. 2. Ladyship, a style of address; -- with the personal pronoun. Massinger.
• MANAGEMENT
  1. The act or art of managing; the manner of treating, directing, carrying on, or using, for a purpose; conduct; administration; guidance; control; as, the management of a family or of a farm; the management of state affairs. "The management of
• FEMALE RHYMES
  double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line. Note: A rhyme, in which the final syllables only agree
• DOMESTICITY
  The state of being domestic; domestic character; household life.
• DOMESTIC
  1. Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants. His fortitude is the more extraordinary, because his domestic feelings were
• MISMANAGEMENT
  Wrong or bad management; as, he failed through mismagement.
• UNDOMESTICATE
  To make wild or roving.
• SCHOOLMISTRESS
  A woman who governs and teaches a school; a female school- teacher.
• SUBFAMILY
  One of the subdivisions, of more importance than genus, into which certain families are divided.
• SUPERFAMILY
  A group intermediate between a family and a suborder.