Defn: double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line.
Note: A rhyme, in which the final syllables only agree (strain, complain) is called a male rhyme; one in which the two final syllables of each verse agree, the last being short (motion, ocean), is called female. Brande & C. — Female screw, the spiral-threaded cavity into which another, or male, screw turns. Nicholson.
FEMALIST
Fe"mal*ist, n.
Defn: A gallant. [Obs.]
Courting her smoothly like a femalist. Marston.
FEMALIZE
Fe"mal*ize, v. t.
Defn: To make, or to describe as, female or feminine. Shaftesbury.
FEME
Feme ( or ), n. Etym: [OF. feme, F. femme.] (Old Law)
Defn: A woman. Burrill. Feme covert (Law), a married woman. See Covert, a., 3. — Feme sole (Law), a single or unmarried woman; a woman who has never been married, or who has been divorced, or whose husband is dead. — Feme sole trader or merchant (Eng. Law), a married woman, by the custom of London, engages in business on her own account, inpendently of her husband.
FEMERAL
Fem"er*al, n. (Arch.)
Defn: See Femerell.