Maiden

['meɪd(ə)n] or ['medn]

Definition

(n.) An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid.

(n.) A female servant.

(n.) An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals.

(n.) A machine for washing linen.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidens; suitable to, or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence.

(a.) Never having been married; not having had sexual intercourse; virgin; -- said usually of the woman, but sometimes of the man; as, a maiden aunt.

(a.) Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.

(a.) Used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been captured, or violated.

(v. t.) To act coyly like a maiden; -- with it as an indefinite object.

Typed by Keller

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Girl, virgin, MAID.

a. [1]. Of maids, of virgins.[2]. Pure, chaste, undefiled, virgin.[3]. Fresh, new.

Editor: Vince

Definition

n. a maid: in Scotland a machine like the guillotine formerly used for beheading criminals.—adj. pertaining to a virgin or young woman: consisting of maidens: (fig.) unpolluted: fresh: new: unused: first: that has never been captured said of a fortress.—ns. Maid′enhair a name given to a fern from the fine hair-like stalks of its fronds; Maid′enhood Maid′enhead the state of being a maid: virginity: purity: freshness; Maid′enliness.—adjs. Maid′enly maiden-like: becoming a maiden: gentle: modest; Maid′en-meek (Tenn.) meek as a maiden; Maid′en-tongued gentle in voice like a girl; Maid′en-wid′owed widowed while still a virgin.—n. Maid′hood (Shak.).—Maiden assize an assize at which there are no criminal cases; Maiden battle a first contest; Maiden fortress a fortress that has never been captured; Maiden name the family name of a married woman before her marriage; Maiden over in cricket an over in which no runs are made; Maiden speech the first public speech made by a person esp. in Parliament; Maiden stakes in horse-racing the money contended for in a race between horses that have never run before.

Typist: Veronica

Unserious Contents or Definition

n. A young person of the unfair sex addicted to clewless conduct and views that madden to crime. The genus has a wide geographical distribution being found wherever sought and deplored wherever found. The maiden is not altogether unpleasing to the eye nor (without her piano and her views) insupportable to the ear though in respect to comeliness distinctly inferior to the rainbow and with regard to the part of her that is audible bleaten out of the field by the canary—which also is more portable.

Inputed by Angie

Examples

Editor: Maris

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