Definition of maiden
- 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.