A woman. 1513, 1599, 1606, &c. N.E.D. But not traceable, as an Americanism, to England; and rarely met with.
a. 1848. I never yet imprudently grabbed at a feminine without being pricked by more pins about the back of her frock than ought to be allowed by either civil or ecclesiastical law.—Dow, Jun., ‘Patent Sermons,’ i. 95.
