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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. Kind; sort. [Obs.] "One gender of herbs." Shak.

2. Sex, male or female. [Obs. or Colloq.]

3. A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex. Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies to living objects. R. Morris.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To beget; to engender.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To copulate; to breed. [R.] Shak.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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