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Mistress
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A married woman; a wife.
(2):
(n.) The old name of the jack at bowls.
(3):
(v. i.) To wait upon a mistress; to be courting.
(4):
(n.) A woman regarded with love and devotion; she who has command over one's heart; a beloved object; a sweetheart.
(5):
(n.) A woman filling the place, but without the rights, of a wife; a concubine; a loose woman with whom one consorts habitually.
(6):
(n.) A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc.
(7):
(n.) A title of courtesy formerly prefixed to the name of a woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the contracted forms, Mrs., for a married, and Miss, for an unmarried, woman.
(8):
(n.) A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Mistress'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/m/mistress.html. 1828.
