These are the meanings of the letters SERTIMSS when you unscramble them.
- Mistress (n.)
A married woman; a wife.
- Mistress (n.)
A title of courtesy formerly prefixed to the name of a woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the contracted forms, Mrs., for a married, and Miss, for an unmarried, woman.
- Mistress (n.)
A woman filling the place, but without the rights, of a wife; a concubine; a loose woman with whom one consorts habitually.
- Mistress (n.)
A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc.
- Mistress (n.)
A woman regarded with love and devotion; she who has command over one's heart; a beloved object; a sweetheart.
- Mistress (n.)
A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it.
- Mistress (n.)
The old name of the jack at bowls.
- Mistress (v. i.)
To wait upon a mistress; to be courting.