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Webster 1913 Edition
Sex
Sex
,Noun.
[L.
sexus
: cf. F. sexe
.] 1.
The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of properties or qualities by which male is distinguished from female.
2.
One of the two divisions of organic beings formed on the distinction of male and female.
3.
(Bot.)
(a)
The capability in plants of fertilizing or of being fertilized;
as, staminate and pistillate flowers are of opposite
. sexes
(b)
One of the groups founded on this distinction.
The sex
, the female sex; women, in general.
Webster 1828 Edition
Sex
SEX
,Noun.
1. The distinction between male and female; or the property or character by which an animal is male or female. The male sex is usually characterized by muscular strength, boldness and firmness. The female sex is characterized by softness, sensibility and modesty.
In botany, the property of plants which corresponds to sex in animals. The Linnean system of botany is formed on the doctrine of sexes in plants.
2. By way of emphasis, womankind; females.
Unhappy sex! whose beauty is your snare. Dryden.