N. veteran, old man, seer, patriarch, graybeard, grandfather, grandsire, grandam, gaffer, gammer, crone, pantaloon, sexagenarian, octogenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian, old stager, dotard, preadamite, methuselah, nestor, old parr, elders, forefathers

Phr. "superfluous lags the veteran on the stage"

N. woman, she, her, female, petticoat, # feminality, muliebrity, womanhood, womankind, the sex, the fair, fair sex, softer sex, weaker vessel, dame, madam, madame, mistress, mrs. lady, donna belle, matron, dowager, goody, gammer, frau, frow, vrouw, rani, good woman, good wife, squaw, wife, matronage, matronhood, bachelor girl, new woman, feminist, suffragette, suffragist, nymph, wench, grisette, girl, sissy, betty, cot betty, cotquean, henhussy, mollycoddle, muff, old woman, hen, bitch, sow, doe, roe, mare, she goat, nanny goat, tabita, ewe, cow, lioness, tigress, vixen, gynecaeum, estrogen, oestrogen, consanguinity, paternity, lesbian, dyke

V. feminize

Adj. female, she-, feminine, womanly, ladylike, matronly, maidenly, wifely, womanish, effeminate, unmanly, gynecic, gynaecic

Phr. "a perfect woman nobly planned", "a lovely lady garmented in white", das ewig-weibliche zieht uns hinan, "earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected", es de vidrio la mujer, "she moves a goddess and she looks a queen", "the beauty of a lovely woman is like music", varium et mutabile semper femina, "woman is the lesser man"

Pron. she, her, hers