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Mistress

Mistress (mistress)
n.(?)
Mis"tress
[OE. maistress, OF. maistresse, F. maîtresse, LL. magistrissa, for L. magistra, fem. of magister. See Master, Mister, and cf. Miss a young woman.]
  1. A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc.

    The late queen's gentlewoman! a knight's daughter!
    To be her mistress' mistress!
    Shak.

  2. A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it.

    A letter desires all young wives to make themselves mistresses of Wingate's Arithmetic. Addison.

  3. A woman regarded with love and devotion; she who has command over one's heart; a beloved object; a sweetheart.
    [Poetic] Clarendon.
  4. A woman filling the place, but without the rights, of a wife; a concubine; a loose woman with whom one consorts habitually.
    Spectator.
  5. A title of courtesy formerly prefixed to the name of a woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the contracted forms, Mrs., for a married, and Miss, for an unmarried, woman.

    Now Mistress Gilpin (careful soul). Cowper.

  6. A married woman; a wife.
    [Scot.]

    Several of the neighboring mistresses had assembled to witness the event of this memorable evening. Sir W. Scott.

  7. The old name of the jack at bowls.
    Beau. *** Fl.

    To be one's own mistress, to be exempt from control by another person.


Mistress

Mistress (mistress)
v. i.
Mis"tress
  1. To wait upon a mistress] to be courting.
    [Obs.] Donne.













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