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Gender
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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.
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Part of speech: verb (v.)
To beget; to engender.
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Part of speech: verb (v.)
To copulate; to breed. [R.] Shak.