(n.) The staff for holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand.
(n.) Used as a symbol of the holder of a distaff; hence, a woman; women, collectively.
Example Sentences:
(1) The epidemiology and genetics of these forms of seizures must take account of much greater fitness on the distaff side of the pedigree.
(2) All on-message Tories are going with the line “Conservatives or chaos”, which, for reasons last interrogated in 1948, they consider particularly attractive to the distaff vote.
(3) With the help of the collections of distaff philosophical thoughts the relation between distaff philosophy and popular veterinary medicine is shown.
(4) Spinning, distaffs and spinning-rooms are used to be closely linked with superstitious thinking and behavior.
(5) The so-called distaff philosophy reflects the wisdom of the old black magic spinners.
Women
Definition:
(pl. ) of Woman
(n.) pl. of Woman.
Example Sentences:
(1) PMS is more prevalent among women working outside the home, alcoholics, women of high parity, and women with toxemic tendency; it probably runs in families.
(2) Collins said she asked Sullivan several questions, including who the women were.
(3) In this book, he dismisses Freud's idea of penis envy - "Freud got it spectacularly wrong" - and said "women don't envy the penis.
(4) All the women had vaginal ultrasound velocimetry studies in both mainstem uterine arteries through the parametrium before the surgical procedure and again after the procedure.
(5) Nulliparous women were also more likely to discontinue the condom because of pregnancy, as were non-Protestants and the Australian-born.
(6) Even though attempts to generalize the data from childbearing women to women of childbearing age have an inherent conservative bias, the results of our study suggest that 988 women (95% CI 713 to 1336) aged 15 to 44 years in Quebec had HIV infection in 1989.
(7) This effect was more marked in breast cancer patients which may explain our earlier finding that women with upper body fat localization are at increased risk for developing breast cancer.
(8) The availability and success of changes in reproductive technology should lead to a reappraisal of the indications for hysterectomy, especially in young women.
(9) The epidemiology of HIV infection among women and hence among children has progressively changed since the onset of the epidemic in Western countries.
(10) The obvious need for highly effective contraception in women with existing disorders of glucose metabolism has led to a search for oral contraceptive (OC) regimens for such women that are efficient but without unacceptable metabolic side effects.
(11) More research and a national policy to provide optimal nutrition for all pregnant women, including the adolescent, are needed.
(12) After a discussion of the therapeutic relationship, several coping strategies which have been used successfully by many women are described and therapeutic applications are offered.
(13) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
(14) Elderly women need to follow the same strategies as postmenopausal women with more emphasis on prevention of falls.
(15) Total cholesterol levels are elevated, particularly in hypopituitary women.
(16) In the 153 women to whom iron supplements were given during pregnancy, the initial fall in haemoglobin concentration was less, was arrested by 28 weeks gestation and then rose to a level equivalent to the booking level.
(17) The frequency of gastric malignancies in the families of the women with gastric polyps was higher than in the controls and in men, 6.2, 3.1 and 2.4 percent, respectively (p less than 0.05, and p less than 0.025).
(18) Four cases of pregnancies in two women with tricuspid atresia (TA) are described.
(19) In 2012, 20% of small and medium-sized businesses were either run solely or mostly by women.
(20) These 150 women, the word acknowledges, were killed for being women.