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CIDE DICTIONARY
maiden, n. [OE. maiden, meiden, AS. mægden, dim. of AS. mæg, fr. mago son, servant; akin to G. magd, mädchen, maid, OHG. magad, Icel. mögr son, Goth. magus boy, child, magaps virgin, and perh. to Zend. magu youth. Cf. Maid a virgin.].
- 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." [1913 Webster]"A maiden of our century, yet most meek." [1913 Webster]
- A female servant. [1913 Webster]
- An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals. Wharton. [1913 Webster]
- A machine for washing linen. [1913 Webster]
maiden, a.
- Of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidens; suitable to, or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence. Addison. [1913 Webster]"Have you no modesty, no maiden shame ?" [1913 Webster]
- Never having been married; not having had sexual intercourse; virgin; -- said usually of the woman, but sometimes of the man; as, a maiden aunt. Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
- Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused. Shak. [1913 Webster]"Full bravely hast thou fleshed
Thy maiden sword." [1913 Webster] - Used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been captured, or violated. T. Warton. Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
maiden, 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." [1913 Webster]
Loath for to grant, but loather to refuse." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
maiden, n.
1 a archaic or poet. a girl; a young unmarried woman. b (attrib.) unmarried (maiden aunt).
2 Cricket = maiden over.
3 (attrib.) (of a female animal) unmated.
4 (often attrib.) a a horse that has never won a race. b a race open only to such horses.
5 (attrib.) being or involving the first attempt or occurrence (maiden speech; maiden voyage).
1 a archaic or poet. a girl; a young unmarried woman. b (attrib.) unmarried (maiden aunt).
2 Cricket = maiden over.
3 (attrib.) (of a female animal) unmated.
4 (often attrib.) a a horse that has never won a race. b a race open only to such horses.
5 (attrib.) being or involving the first attempt or occurrence (maiden speech; maiden voyage).
Idiom
maiden name a wife's surname before marriage. maiden over Cricket an over in which no runs are scored off the bat.
Derivative
maidenhood n. maidenish adj. maidenlike adj. maidenly adj.
Etymology
OE m{aelig}gden, dimin. f. m{aelig}geth f. Gmc
DEVIL DICTIONARY
maiden
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, bleating out of the field by the canary -- which, also, is more portable.
A lovelorn maiden she sat and sang --
This quaint, sweet song sang she;
"It's O for a youth with a football bang
And a muscle fair to see!
The Captain he
Of a team to be!
On the gridiron he shall shine,
A monarch by right divine,
And never to roast on it -- me!"
Opoline Jones
THESAURUS
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 thingROGET THESAURUS
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Beginning
N beginning, commencement, opening, outset, incipience, inception, inchoation, introduction, alpha, initial, inauguration, debut, le premier pas, embarcation, rising of the curtain, maiden speech, outbreak, onset, brunt, initiative, move, first move, narrow end of the wedge, thin end of the wedge, fresh start, new departure, origin, source, rise, bud, germ, egg, rudiment, genesis, primogenesis, birth, nativity, cradle, infancy, start, inception, creation, starting point, dawn, evolution, title-page, head, heading, van, caption, fatihah, entrance, entry, inlet, orifice, mouth, chops, lips, porch, portal, portico, propylon, door, gate, gateway, postern, wicket, threshold, vestibule, propylaeum, skirts, border, first stage, first blush, first glance, first impression, first sight, rudiments, elements, outlines, grammar, alphabet, ABC, beginning, initial, initiatory, initiative, inceptive, introductory, incipient, proemial, inaugural, inchoate, inchoative, embryonic, rudimental, primogenial, primeval, primitive, primordial, aboriginal, natal, nascent, first, foremost, leading, maiden, begun, just begun, at the beginning, in the beginning first, in the first place, imprimis, first and foremost, in limine, in the bud, in embryo, in its infancy, from the beginning, from its birth, ab initio, ab ovo, ab incunabilis, ab origine, let's get going!, let's get this show on the road!, up and at 'em!, aller Anfang ist schwer, dimidium facti qui coepit habet, omnium rerum principia parva sunt.Infant
N infant, babe, baby, babe in arms, nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling, papoose, bambino, kid, vagitus, child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin, bantling, bratling, elf, youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master, scion, sap, seedling, tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow, codlin, codling, foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten, lamb, lambkin, aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle, girl, lass, lassie, wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle, maid, maiden, virgin, hoyden, infantine, infantile, puerile, boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish, baby, newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow, in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings, at the breast, in one's teens.Celibacy
N celibacy, singleness, single blessedness, bachelorhood, bachelorship, misogamy, misogyny, virginity, pucelage, maidenhood, maidenhead, unmarried man, bachelor, Coelebs, agamist, old bachelor, misogamist, misogynist, monogamist, monk, unmarried woman, spinster, maid, maiden, virgin, feme sole, old maid, bachelor girl, girl-bachelor, nun, unmarried, unwed, unwedded, wifeless, spouseless, single.Also see definition of "maiden" in Bible Study Dictionaries
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