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+DEFINITIONS+.
+Gender is that modification of a noun or pronoun which denotes sex+.
+The Masculine Gender denotes the male sex+.
+The Feminine Gender denotes the female sex+.
+The Neuter Gender denotes want of sex+.
Gender Forms.
No English nouns have distinctive neuter forms, but a lew have different forms to distinguish the masculine from the feminine.
The masculine is distinguished from the feminine in three ways:—
1st. By a difference in the ending of the words.