masculines

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The neuter nouns of the a-Declension differ from the masculines only in the N.A. plural.

From Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary by Smith, C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso)

We masculines took ourselves off for a while.

From Kitty's Conquest by King, Charles

She had not succeeded in capturing a husband yet, but it seemed quite possible with all this influx of masculines.

From A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

Nouns signifying males are masculines; as, fear a man, righ a king, sagart a priest, tarbh a bull, cu a dog.

From Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Stewart, Alexander

About the end of the 11th century feminines not ending in e = ǝ take, by analogy of the masculines, s in the nom. sing., thus distinguishing nom. flors from acc. flor.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various