Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Woman \Wom"an\, v. t.
   1. To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it.
      --Daniel.

   2. To make effeminate or womanish. [R.] --Shak.

   3. To furnish with, or unite to, a woman. [R.] ``To have him
      see me woman'd.'' --Shak.

Woman \Wom"an\, n.; pl. {Women}. [OE. woman, womman, wumman,
   wimman, wifmon, AS. w[=i]fmann, w[=i]mmann; w[=i]f woman,
   wife + mann a man. See {Wife}, and {Man}.]
   1. An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as
      distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female
      person.

            Women are soft, mild pitiful, and flexible. --Shak.

            And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man,
            made he a woman.                      --Gen. ii. 22.

            I have observed among all nations that the women
            ornament themselves more than the men; that,
            wherever found, they are the same kind, civil,
            obliging, humane, tender beings, inclined to be gay
            and cheerful, timorous and modest.    --J. Ledyard.

   2. The female part of the human race; womankind.

            Man is destined to be a prey to woman. --Thackeray.

   3. A female attendant or servant. `` By her woman I sent your
      message.'' --Shak.

   {Woman hater}, one who hates women; one who has an aversion
      to the female sex; a misogynist. --Swift.

Source : WordNet®

woman
     n 1: an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman
          kept house while the man hunted" [syn: {adult female}]
          [ant: {man}]
     2: women as a class; "it's an insult to American womanhood";
        "woman is the glory of creation" [syn: {womanhood}]
     3: a human female who does housework; "the char will clean the
        carpet" [syn: {charwoman}, {char}, {cleaning woman}, {cleaning
        lady}]
     4: a female person who plays a significant role (wife or
        mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man;
        "he was faithful to his woman" [ant: {man}]

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

woman
     
         A replacement for the {Unix} {man} {documentation}
        browsing command.  Version 1.157 of woman runs under/on
        {386BSD}, {OSF}, {Apollo} {Domain/OS}, {BSD}, {HP-UX}, {IBM}
        {RS-6000}, {Irix}, {Linux}, {Solaris}, {Sony} {NEWS}, {SunOS},
        {Ultrix}, {Unicos}.
     
        Posted to comp.sources.reviewed Volume 3, Issue 50 on 05 Jul
        1993 by Arne Henrik Juul , archive-name
        woman-1.157.
     
        {FTP USC, USA
       
     (ftp://usc.edu/archive/usenet/sources/comp.sources.reviewed/volume3/woman-1.157/)}.
        {FTP Imperial, UK
       
     (ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/usenet/comp.sources.reviewed/volume3/woman-1.157/)}.
     
        (1995-03-21)