Crossword clues for tigress
tigress
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tigress \Ti"gress\, n. [From Tiger: cf. F. tigresse.]
(Zo["o]l.)
The female of the tiger.
--Holland.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from tiger + -ess.
Wiktionary
n. A female tiger; a she-tiger.
WordNet
n. a female tiger
Wikipedia
Tigress is the name of three different comic book supervillains, all of whom have appeared in various series published by DC Comics.
Tigress (Kassidy Farrell) is the latest incarnation of the superheroine Tigress. An ancient champion of Life fighting against the serpent god of Death, Tigress has gone by many names in her incarnations, including the goddess Bast in ancient Egypt. She is also a general crime fighter. Tigress is a character owned by Heroic Publishing and is actually a revival of a previous hero. She is published in the Tales of the Champions comic book.
Tigress, in comics, may refer to:
- Tigress (DC Comics)
- Tigress (Heroic Publishing)
Tigress or The Tigress is the female form of tiger. The word may also refer to:
Usage examples of "tigress".
Tigress, the caravel Red Lion, and the carack Wastrel -had sailed the seas, returning heavy-laden with treasure.
We become focused on our emotional needs, using sex to express those needs, to gauge our compatibility and desirability, instead of allowing sex to release us from the daily rigors of adult concerns, fears, and obligations: In her practice, the Tigress allows for periods of engaging in mild exhibitionism, periods for flirting and showing off to acquire men, and periods for secret sexual interludes.
Horus of Hibonu swooped down upon the back of a gazelle like a hunting hawk, Hathor of Denderah was a cow, Bastit of Bubastis was a cat or a tigress, while Nekhabit of El Kab was a great bald-headed vulture.
Denderah was a cow, Bastit of Bubastis was a cat or a tigress, while Nekhabit of El Kab was a great bald-headed vulture.
This must be Didi Zervos, whom Chief Moodie had told him about, a young tigress married to a seventy-two-year-old millionaire, Orestes Zervos.
Sometimes, when Possie was walking up and down in a bit of a tantrum like, she put me more in mind of the tigress I saw in a cage at the Zoo, in London.
She hoped to shock him, but Hastings Willoughby had lost all his shockability long before this razor-tooth tigress cub was born.
Like John Quinton, who had been his first lieutenant in Tigress, and who by rights should have a command of his own.
Like a savage tigress that tossing in the jungle overlays her own cubs, so the sea dashes even the mightiest whales against the rocks, and leaves them there side by side with the split wrecks of ships.
That the kakar had seen the tigress was quite evident, and the only place where she could have seen her was on the track.
In this damp clay I had left footprints, and over these footprints I now found the splayed-out pug marks of the tigress where she had jumped down from the rocks and followed me, until the kakar had seen her and given its alarm-call, whereon the tigress had left the track and entered the bushes where I had seen the movement.
The tigress was undoubtedly familiar with every foot of the ground, and not having had an opportunity of killing me at the rocks - and her chance of bagging me at the first hairpin bend having been spoilt by the kakar - she was probably now making her way through the dense undergrowth to try to intercept me at the second bend.
The behaviour of the buffaloes, the kakar, of Jim Corbett himself, and the hunting plans of the tigress all tell us this in no uncertain terms.
Sawle who had acted as wardroom messman aboard the Tigress, and had volunteered for this mission without even asking what it entailed.
Even in a skinsuit, in deep space maneuvers, Thandi Palane reminded Ruth of a two-legged tigress.