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MIS'TRESS, n. [L. magistra.]

1. A woman who governs; correlative to servant, slave, or subject.

My mistress here lies murdered in her bed.

2. The female head of a family.

3. That which governs; a sovereign. Rome was mistress of the world.

4. One that commands, or has possession and sovereignty. The queen is mistress of the Indies.

5. A female who is well skilled in any thing; as, she is mistress of arithmetic.

6. A woman teacher; an instructress of a school.

7. A woman beloved and courted.

8. A woman in keeping for lewd purposes.

9. A term of contemptuous address.

MIS'TRESS, v.t. To wait upon a mistress; to be courting.

1913 Definition
Mistress (mistress)
n.(?)
Mis"tress
[OE. maistress, OF. maistresse, F. maîtresse, LL. magistrissa, for L. magistra, fem. of magister. See Master, Mister, and cf. Miss a young woman.]
  1. A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc.

    The late queen's gentlewoman! a knight's daughter!
    To be her mistress' mistress!     Shak.

  2. A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it.

    A letter desires all young wives to make themselves mistresses of Wingate's Arithmetic. Addison.

  3. A woman regarded with love and devotion; she who has command over one's heart; a beloved object; a sweetheart.
    [Poetic] Clarendon.
  4. A woman filling the place, but without the rights, of a wife; a concubine; a loose woman with whom one consorts habitually.
    Spectator.
  5. A title of courtesy formerly prefixed to the name of a woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the contracted forms, Mrs., for a married, and Miss, for an unmarried, woman.

    Now Mistress Gilpin (careful soul). Cowper.

  6. A married woman; a wife.
    [Scot.]

    Several of the neighboring mistresses had assembled to witness the event of this memorable evening. Sir W. Scott.

  7. The old name of the jack at bowls.
    Beau. *** Fl.

    To be one's own mistress, to be exempt from control by another person.

  8. To wait upon a mistress] to be courting.
    [Obs.] Donne.
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