Maiden

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

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

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

(3): ( n.) A female servant.

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

(5): ( n.) A machine for washing linen.

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

(7): ( 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.

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

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

King James Dictionary [2]

Ma'Iden, n.

1. An unmarried woman, or a young unmarried woman a virgin. 2. A female servant. 3. It is used in composition, to express the feminine gender, as in maid-servant.

Ma'Iden, n. A maid also, an instrument for beheading criminals, and another for washing linen.

Ma'Iden, a. Pertaining to a young woman or virgin as maiden charms.

1. Consisting of young women or virgins.

Amid the maiden throng.

2. Fresh new unused.

He fleshed his maiden sword.

Ma'Iden, To speak and act demurely or modestly.

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