male

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MALE, Maldives — Jailed former Maldives President Abdulla Yameen was transferred from prison to house arrest on Sunday, fulfilling the campaign promise of his party candidate who won the presidential election runoff.

From Washington Times • Oct. 1, 2023

I first consider those which are used in the tables of embryonic, quadrumanous, and race characters: MALE.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 by Various

The vices and virtues of the mosquito may be summed up in a few words, always remembering that it is the FEMALE, and not the MALE, to whom humanity is indebted for lessons of patience.

From Four Months in a Sneak-Box by Bishop, Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes)

MALE, influence of, on the fecundated female. -supposed influence of, on offspring.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Darwin, Charles