maiden
6 definitions found
maiden - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Maiden \Maid"en\ (m[=a]d"'n), n. [OE. maiden, meiden, AS.
maegden, dim. of AS. maeg[eth], fr. mago son, servant; akin
to G. magd, m[aum]dchen, maid, OHG. magad, Icel. m["o]gr son,
Goth. magus boy, child, magaps virgin, and perh. to Zend.
magu youth. Cf. Maid a virgin.]
1. An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not
experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid.
[1913 Webster]
She employed the residue of her life to repairing of
highways, building of bridges, and endowing of
maidens. --Carew.
[1913 Webster]
A maiden of our century, yet most meek. --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]
2. A female servant. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]
3. An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in
Scotland for beheading criminals. --Wharton.
[1913 Webster]
4. A machine for washing linen.
[1913 Webster]
Maiden \Maid"en\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidens; suitable to,
or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence.
"Amid the maiden throng." --Addison.
[1913 Webster]
Have you no modesty, no maiden shame ? --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
2. 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 surprising old
maiden lady." --Thackeray.
[1913 Webster]
3. Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
"Maiden flowers." --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
Full bravely hast thou fleshed
Thy maiden sword. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
4. Used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been
captured, or violated. -- T. Warton. Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]
Maiden assize (Eng. Law), an assize which there is no
criminal prosecution; an assize which is unpolluted with
blood. It was usual, at such an assize, for the sheriff to
present the judge with a pair of white gloves. --Smart.
Maiden name, the surname of a woman before her marriage.
Maiden pink. (Bot.) See under Pink.
Maiden plum (Bot.), a West Indian tree (Comocladia integrifolia
) with purplish drupes. The sap of the tree
is glutinous, and gives a persistent black stain.
Maiden speech, the first speech made by a person, esp. by a
new member in a public body.
Maiden tower, the tower most capable of resisting an enemy.
maiden voyage the first regular service voyage of a ship.
[1913 Webster]
Maiden \Maid"en\, v. t.
To act coyly like a maiden; -- with it as an indefinite
object.
[1913 Webster]
For had I maiden'd it, as many use.
Loath for to grant, but loather to refuse. --Bp. Hall.
[1913 Webster]
Maiden grass, the smaller quaking grass.
Maiden tree. See Ginkgo.
[1913 Webster]
maiden - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
maiden
adj 1: serving to set in motion; "the magazine's inaugural
issue"; "the initiative phase in the negotiations"; "an
initiatory step toward a treaty"; "his first (or maiden)
speech in Congress"; "the liner's maiden voyage" [syn:
inaugural, initiative, initiatory, first,
maiden]
n 1: an unmarried girl (especially a virgin) [syn: maid,
maiden]
2: (cricket) an over in which no runs are scored [syn: maiden over
, maiden]
maiden - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :
Maiden, NC (town, FIPS 40660)
Location: 35.57578 N, 81.20615 W
Population (1990): 2574 (1023 housing units)
Area: 7.3 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 28650
maiden - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
154 Moby Thesaurus words for "maiden":
ax, babe, baby, bachelor girl, bachelorlike, beardless, block,
boyish, boylike, broad, calflike, callow, chaste, chick, chief,
childish, childlike, colleen, coltish, cross, cutie, dame,
damoiselle, damsel, death chair, death chamber, demoiselle, dewy,
doll, drop, earliest, electric chair, ever-new, evergreen,
feme sole, filly, first, firsthand, fledgling, foremost, frail,
fresh, front, gal, gallows, gallows-tree, gas chamber, gibbet,
girl, girlie, girlish, girllike, green, guillotine, halter, head,
heifer, hemp, hempen collar, hot seat, hoyden, husbandless,
immature, inaugural, initial, intact, jeune fille, jill,
junior miss, kiddish, lass, lassie, leading, lethal chamber,
little missy, lone woman, mademoiselle, maid, maiden lady,
maidenly, main, miss, missy, neoteric, nestling, new, noose,
nymphet, old maid, old-maidish, original, piece, pioneer, premier,
primary, prime, principal, pristine, puerile, puplike, puppyish,
puppylike, quail, raw, romp, rope, scaffold, schoolgirl,
schoolmaid, schoolmiss, sempervirent, shakedown, single,
single girl, skirt, slip, sole, spinster, spinsterish,
spinsterlike, spinsterly, spinstress, spouseless, stake, subdeb,
subdebutante, subteen, subteener, teenybopper, the chair, tomato,
tomboy, tree, unbeaten, undefiled, undeveloped, unfledged,
unhandled, unmarried, untouched, untried, untrodden, unused, unwed,
unwedded, vernal, vestal, vestal virgin, virgin, virginal, wench,
young, young creature, young thing
|
