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huntress|ˈhʌntrɪs|
[f. hunter + -ess.]
A female hunter.
1. A woman (or goddess) who hunts or engages in the chase.
c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1489 And ther with al Dyane gan appeere With bowe in honde right as an hunteress. 1470–85Malory Arthur xviii. xxi, A lady dwell'd in that forest, and she was a grete huntresse. 1590Spenser F.Q. iii. v. 27 In those same woods ye well remember may How that a noble hunteresse did wonne..Belphœbe was her name. 1703Rowe Ulyss. ii. i. 544 The Huntress Cynthia and her Train. 1709Steele Tatler No. 37 ⁋2 Mrs. Alse Copswood, the Yorkshire Huntress. 1884Symonds Shaks. Predec. x. §11. 405 His sweetheart..became Maid Marian, and dwelt a virgin huntress in his company.
b. transf. and fig. (of women and animals).
1604Dekker 2nd Pt. Honest Wh. Wks. 1873 II. 127 Y'are a good Huntresse, Lady, you ha found your Game already. 1665Hooke Microgr. 201 But, if the capricious Fly took wing, and pitch'd upon another place behind our Huntress, then would the Spider [etc.]. 1894Sir E. Sullivan Woman 11 Every woman is, by nature and instinct, more or less a huntress of men.
2. A mare used or adapted for hunting.
1858Trollope Dr. Thorne iv, If you insist on calling the old pony a huntress. 1885Bazaar 30 Mar. 1270/1 Brown cob, pretty, quiet to ride or drive, good huntress.
3. attrib. and Comb., as huntress fashion, huntress guise, huntress-maid, huntress-queen, huntress-wise; huntress-like adj.
1573Twyne æneid xi. (1584) S ij b, In Thracian huntres⁓wise. 1725Pope Odyss. vi. 119 A sylvan train the huntress-queen surrounds. 1788I. Ritson Homer's Hymn Venus 7 Whether Latona, or the huntress-maid. 1887Bowen Virg. æneid i. 318 See! from her shoulder slung in a huntress fashion the bow. |