The word is frequently used to signify masculine.

Banished, it came scampering back to whisper that Ann would not bring the army its first "past"either masculine or feminine.

He wanted to deal in something more masculine than lace and ribbons.

Oddly enough, when it is attempted, the writer usually fancies herself the lover, and describes feminine, not masculine, beauty.

And she became humble before him, for in the space of a few seconds he had grown mysteriously and powerfully masculine to her.

And when we speak of the masculine, we mean the mainly masculine.

The jaw should be powerful, clean cut rather deeper and more punishinggiving the head a more masculine appearancethan that usually seen in a Fox-terrier.

She nervously unfastened a bag she carried, and taking out a singularly unfeminine-looking handkerchiefa large cambric square almost masculine in its proportions, and guiltless of lace or perfumeheld it to her face for a moment.

Boys, especially those of the Chapel Royal, had for a long time acted masculine, as well as feminine, parts.

The next thing you have to teach them is, the distinction betwixt singular and plural, and, if you think proper, masculine and feminine; but before you talk to the children about plural number and masculine gender, &c., let them be made acquainted with the realities of which these hard-sounding words are the signs.