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FEMALE

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 247 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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


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