• |
An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced
sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid. |
• |
A female servant. |
• |
An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in
Scotland for beheading criminals. |
• |
A machine for washing linen. |
• |
Of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidens; suitable to,
or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence. |
• |
Never having been married; not having had sexual
intercourse; virgin; -- said usually of the woman, but sometimes of the
man; as, a maiden aunt. |
• |
Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused. |
• |
Used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been
captured, or violated. |
• |
To act coyly like a maiden; -- with it as an indefinite
object. |