[mas.cu.line] adj [ME masculin, fr. MF, fr. L masculinus, fr. masculus, n., male, dim. of mas male] (14c) 1 a: male b: having qualities appropriate to or usu. associated with a man
2: of, relating to, or constituting the gender that ordinarily includes most words or grammatical forms referring to males 3 a: having or occurring in a stressed final syllable "~ rhyme" b: having the final chord occurring on a strong beat "~ cadence"
4: of or forming the formal, active, or generative principle of the cosmos -- mas.cu.line.ly adv -- mas.cu.lin.i.ty n
[2]masculine n (14c) 1: the masculine gender
2: a noun, pronoun, adjective, or inflectional form or class of the masculine gender
3: a male person