A'mazon. n.s. [α and μάζος.] The Amazons were a race of women famous for valour, who inhabited Caucasus; they are so called from their cutting off their breasts, to use their weapons better. A warlike woman; a virago.
Stay, stay thy hands, thou art an amazon,
And fightest with the sword. Shakesp. Henry VI.
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