Maiden

Maiden - Other Definitions

• (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.
  
  
• (a.) Like a maid; suiting a maid; maiden-like; gentle, modest, reserved.
  
  
• (adv.) In a maidenlike manner.