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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 247 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FEMALE , the correlative of " male," the See also:

sex which performs the See also:function of conceiving and bearing as opposed to the begetting of See also:young. The word in See also:Middle See also:English is femelle, adopted from the See also:French from the See also:Lat. femella, which is a diminutive, and in classical Latin used strictly as such, of femina, a woman. The See also:present termination in English is due to a connexion in ideas with " male," In various See also:mechanical devices, where two corresponding parts See also:work within the other, the receiving See also:part is often known as the " female," as for example in the " male " and " female See also:screw." The O. Fr. feme, See also:modern femme, occurs in legal phraseology in feme covert, a married woman, i.e. one protected or covered by a See also:husband, and in feme See also:sole, one not so protected, a widow or spinster (see See also:WOMEN and HUSBAND AND WIFE).

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