masculine

mas´cu`line Pronunciation: măs´kũ`lĭn

a.	1.	Of the male sex; not female. Thy masculine children, that is to say, thy sons. - Chaucer.
	2.	Having the qualities of a man; suitable to, or characteristic of, a man; virile; not feminine or effeminate; strong; robust. That lady, after her husband's death, held the reins with a masculine energy. - Hallam.
	3.	Belonging to males; appropriated to, or used by, males.
	4.	(Gram.) Having the inflections of, or construed with, words pertaining especially to male beings, as distinguished from feminine and neuter. See Gender.

Noun	1.	masculine - a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male
Adj.	1.	masculine - of grammatical gender Antonyms: feminine - of grammatical gender neuter - of grammatical gender; "`it' is the third-person singular neuter pronoun"
	2.	masculine - associated with men and not with women Antonyms: feminine - associated with women and not with men; "feminine intuition"
	3.	masculine - (music or poetry) ending on an accented beat or syllable; "a masculine cadence"; "the masculine rhyme of `annoy, enjoy'"