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huntress
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As huntress she both preserves and destroys game animals, but she does not draw the line at animals. ▪ Female speaker Atalanta was a mythical huntress and athlete.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c.; see hunter + -ess . Old English had hunticge .\n
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a woman hunter
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Huntress \Hunt"ress\, n. A woman who hunts or follows the chase; as, the huntress Diana. --Shak.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Huntress , also known as Helena Rosa Bertinelli , is a fictional character in the DC Universe. Based upon the Earth-Two Huntress (Helena Wayne) , she is one of several DC characters to bear the Huntress name. She was also, for a time, one of the versions ...
Usage examples of huntress.
Besides the Nun, our female members include a sinister Virgin Huntress who seems to have wreaked mayhem or worse on one of the auberge counselors in order to qualify as a recidivist, and an extremely cautious ex-Meta Lady who is, at the moment at least, content to remain just one of the boys.
Kitel and Hasting knew that their steeds were too exhausted for the effort, and joined the fair huntresses as they galloped for the ferry.
Her, of his love, the god made a nymph there, of long life and a huntress, and his son he brought while still an infant to be nurtured in the cave of Cheiron.
Thus, the leader of the Thlela had sought the frissoor from Durakkon at the Rains banquet, and Occula from Elvair-ka-Virrion before her now almost legendary act as the doomed huntress.
Huntress, arrowy to pursue, In and out of woody glen, Under cliffs that tear the blue, Over torrent, over fen, She and forest, where she skims Feathery, darken and relume: Those are her white-lightning limbs Cleaving loads of leafy gloom.
The Huntress, the Swaggerer, the Rogue, on the one hand, and on the other, the Slanderer, the Lawmonger and the Busybody - a mixture would make devils reach.
The undergrowth parted and the huntress Askari stepped from the shadows.
I am about to offer is capable of overawing the huntress, I select from among the Tarantulae the lustiest, the boldest, those most stimulated by hunger.
BOOKMARKS: A style of affable omnipotence about the wise youth After five years of marriage, and twelve of friendship Among boys there are laws of honour and chivalrous codes An edge to his smile that cuts much like a sneer Complacent languor of the wise youth Huntress with few scruples and the game unguarded It is no use trying to conceal anything from him It was his ill luck to have strong appetites and a weak stomach Minutes taken up by the grey puffs from their mouths No!
Queens walked under a grave mound, one young, one old, and one as golden as the sun, but they held out empty hands and by the hard flint gleam in their eyes she knew them for the old gods, the Huntress, the Fat One, and the Toothless Hag who cuts the thread of life.
So it happed this lady the huntress had abated her dog for the bow at a barren hind, and so this barren hind took the flight over hedges and woods.
She had heard a voice that hurt her earsa woman's voice that sounded like a pack of hounds in full cry, like the huntress urging them on.
She had heard a voice that hurt her ears-a woman's voice that sounded like a pack of hounds in full cry, like the huntress urging them on.
Marika supposed the adults knew everything already, the huntresses having scattered to their respective loghouses before coming to Skiljan’s.
Down on the ground floor, the argument persisted still, though now most of the spirit was out of it, most of the outside huntresses had returned to their loghouses, and those who remained did so purely out of perverse stubbornness.