Physical Properties:

1. Surface usually covered in painted film.
2. Boils at nothing; freezes without known reason.
3. Melts if given special treatment.
4. Bitter if incorrectly used.
5. Found in various states from virgin metal to common ore.
6. Yields if pressure applied in correct places.

Chemical Properties:

1. Has great affinity for gold, silver and a range of precious stones.
2. Absorbs great quantities of expensive substances.
3. May explode spontaneously without prior warning and for no known reason.
4. Insoluble in liquids, but activity increases greatly by saturation in alcohol.
5. Most powerful money reducing agent known to man.

Common Uses:

1. Highly ornamental, especially in sports cars.
2. Can be a great aid to relaxation.
3. Very effective cleaning agent.

Tests:

1. Pure specimen turns rosy pink when discovered in the natural state.
2. Turns green when placed beside a better specimen.

Hazards:

1. Highly dangerous except in experienced hands.
2. Illegal to possess more than one, although several can be maintained at different locations as long as specimens do not come into direct contact with each other.
3. Should you experience itching, burning or rash, discontinue use immediately and seek medical treatment.

If a man hears much that a woman says, she is not beautiful. -- Haskins

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. -- Nietzsche

Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them. -- Dumas

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. -- Dr. Johnson

You can't live with it, you can't live without it -- Anonymous

Keywords: marriage,women,sex,man,men.

I, for one, am not satisfied with this description and pseudo-definition. A woman is a human being. To understand a woman, you must understand humanity. The defining element of a human is their soul, or spirit. Are there "female" souls and "male" souls? According to the beliefs of reincarnation, it is possible for a soul to be female in one life and male in the next. This demonstraits that the concepts of "male" and "female" are only valid in the physical realm. Therefor, anything that separates man from woman must also be tied to the physical realm. Differences can only be biological or socially constructed.

'Women are creatures created to "make men writhe in agony."' Perhaps it is not the woman, but rather the man's reaction to the woman, that makes him writhe in agony.

Perhaps if women were not treated as "ornaments," they would not require such "jewels."

To be a woman is to be strong.
To be a woman is to have the capacity to give life. The spanish phrase for giving birth is "dar alla luz" - "to give to the light."
To be a woman is to grit her teeth and hold back the tears.
To be a woman is to cry openly.
To be a woman is to fight.
To be a woman is to bleed.
To be a woman is to love.
To be a woman is to think.
To be a woman is to be a leader.
To be a woman is to be a mother.
To be a woman is to be a lion tamer.
To be a woman is to tempt fate.
To be a woman is to rejoice.

JO NYO NYOU onna (woman)

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Character Etymology:

From a pictograph of a kneeling woman with outstretched arms.

A Listing of All On-Yomi and Kun-Yomi Readings:

on-yomi: JOU NYO NYOU
kun-yomi: onna me

Nanori Readings:

Nanori: ona ta tsuki na

English Definitions:

1. JOU, NYO, NYOU: woman, girl, daughter.
2. onna, omina: woman, female, sweetheart, girl.
3. onna(rashii): womanly, ladylike.
4. onna(datera) ni: unladylike.
5. me-: female.

Character Index Numbers:

New Nelson: 1173
Henshall: 35

Unicode Encoded Version:

女

Unicode Encoded Compound Examples:

女房 (nyoubou): wife.
女の子 (onna no ko): girl.
女神 (megami): goddess.
女郎 (jorou): prostitute; geisha.
女学生 (jogakusei): girl's school.

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from OE wif-mann "wife-person" as opposed to woepen-mann "weapon-person" (with the definite sexual overtone) > Germanic wif > *wibam > IE ghwibh: "shame, pudenda"--that is, the person who doesn't have a penis, but has that "shameful" thing that "covers" it.

see also cunt, pudendum for more.

Wom"an (?) n.; pl. Women (#). [OE. woman, womman, wumman, wimman, wifmon, AS. wifmann, wimmann; wif woman, wife + mann a man. See Wife, and Man.]

1.

An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.

Women are soft, mild pitiful, and flexible. Shak.

And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman. Gen. ii. 22.

I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more than the men; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings, inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest. J. Ledyard.

2.

The female part of the human race; womankind.

Man is destined to be a prey to woman. Thackeray.

3.

A female attendant or servant.

Shak.

Woman hater, one who hates women; one who has an aversion to the female sex; a misogynist.

Swift.

© Webster 1913.

Wom"an, v. t.

1.

To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it.

Daniel.

2.

To make effeminate or womanish.

Shak.

3.

To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.

Shak.

© Webster 1913.